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Munich considers switching back from Linux to Microsoft software
- higherpurpose 12y agoI imagine Microsoft would be fighting tooth and nail over this one. They know that letting a first "success story of migrating to Linux/open source" could start a whole avalanche of such stories. From a PR point of view, it has been a pretty big hit to Microsoft, I think. That being said, any major "switch" is going to cause a lot of complaints, if it's not done as smoothly as possible. Linux/open source software could be a lot more successful in areas where the users are "new", such as schools, or new government agencies, and so on. I also feel that the governments aren't making nearly a strong of a case for open source software as they could be making. National security, much lower cost in the long term, giving back to the communities by using software that's paid with taxpayer money, rather than sending the taxpayer money into a private entity blackhole, that isn't even from the country, and is likely to use tax loopholes to pull the money out of the local branches, too. - all of these are reasons they could be pushing a lot more.