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Swiss City Of Bern To Switch To Free And Open Source IT Solutions

• jivatmanx 14y ago
  Swiss Neutrality
• fla 14y ago
  Hopefully this will contribute to improve the open source office software.
• rasur 14y ago
  It's quite interesting, since Switzerland has been quite "under the thumb" for a while when it comes to proprietory software, so this comes as a welcome relief. Disclaimer: I live and work in Switzerland.
  • BasDirks 14y ago
    Quite unrelated but could I ask you a question or two (via e-mail/irc) about working in Swiss IT?
    • rasur 14y ago
      sure. email's on my profile. edit: ok.. my username at bluewin dot ch (however, i'm going to bed soon, so you may get an answer in some hours..! ;) )
      • deleted 14y ago
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      • BasDirks 14y ago
        then you've hidden it well ^^ I don't see it. edit: cheers.
• hei_zen 14y ago
  The city of Munich even has created their own Linux distro in 2006, called LiMux, which is part of the identically named LiMux project, aimed at switching all their software systems to free and open source software. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux)
• kyllo 14y ago
  Cool. It would be interesting to see an estimate of the savings from software license purchases they no longer have to make, and what they plan to do with the savings.