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From what I can remember from the "Munich Linux" days, the biggest two hurdles where that 1. all processes had proprietary data formats (Office, exchange and so
by theK 1y ago
From what I can remember from the "Munich Linux" days, the biggest two hurdles where that 1. all processes had proprietary data formats (Office, exchange and some Adobe stuff) as a de facto standard and it was hard fo move suppliers to open ones and 2. That even mundane Public Sector PCs needed to interface with weird/old/arcane storage or authentication protocols.
So while on the surface that Desktop is something that should work with oob Linux parts it ends up being much more involved once you try it.
- le-mark 1y agoThis is what I was thinking. I wonder if the advent web based Office changes that equation. I imagine besides excel and word, there are a lot of access based apps as well.
- hulitu 1y ago> the biggest two hurdles The first one was Gates' visit to Munich. Corruption works wonders.
- jonesjohnson 1y agothis comment on "why LiMux kinda failed" was pretty interesting to read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39930203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39930203