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

42 pointsby glazemasterover 12 years ago

5 comments

rasurover 12 years 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.<p>Disclaimer: I live and work in Switzerland.
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hei_zenover 12 years 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. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux</a>)
jivatmanxover 12 years ago
Swiss Neutrality
kylloover 12 years 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.
flaover 12 years ago
Hopefully this will contribute to improve the open source office software.