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The State of Munich's Ongoing Linux Migration 203

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 28, 2009 @04:56AM from the es-geht-immer-noch dept.

christian.einfeldt writes "The Munich decision to move its 14,000 desktops to Free Open Source Software created a big splash back in 2003 as news circulated of the third-largest German city's defection from Microsoft. When it was announced in 2003, the story garnered coverage even in the US, such as an extensive article in USA Today on-line. Currently, about 60% of desktops are using OpenOffice, with the remaining 40% to be completed by the end of 2009. Firefox and Thunderbird are being used in all of the city's desktop machines. Ten percent of desktops are running the LiMux Debian-based distro, and 80% will be running LiMux by 2012 at the latest. Autonomy was generally considered more important than cost savings, although the LiMux initiative is increasing competition in the IT industry in Munich already. The program has succeeded because the city administration has been careful to reach out to all stakeholders, from managers down to simple end users."

Election Dirty Tricks About To Begin 942

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 07, 2008 @08:16AM from the pox-on-both-their-houses dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ABC is warning that dirty election tricks are about to start. In the past, they've ranged from late-night robo-calls to voter intimidation. ABC has a pretty good list of what to watch out for as told by Allen Raymond, a former Republican operative, who was reformed after spending three months in prison in 2006 for pulling some of the stunts he now helps to prevent." To make this story timely, last week someone broke into a McCain campaign office in Missouri and stole a laptop computer containing "strategic information" about the local campaign.

Comment Re:Fact checking (Score 1) 234

by wallyrulz on Saturday April 19, 2008 @01:19PM (#23128364) Attached to: Sacha Baron Cohen Wikipedia Entry Creates Circular References

So you think "old fashioned" media such as newspapers and television never made anything up? Hello! Can you say Jayson Blair. Can you say Dan Rather? If anything, the internet has made these morons that thought they could get away with whatever they want, do their jobs. There is a reason ratings and subscriptions have plummeted. It's the new media baby, get used to it.

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