Welcome!

Linux Authors: David Smith, Peter Velikin, CJ Fearnley, Pat Romanski, Kevin Remde

Related Topics: Linux

Linux: Article

Linux in Munich - "LiMux" - May Come Soon After All

Linux in Munich - "LiMux" - May Come Soon After All
By Linux News Desk
Article Rating:
August 11, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
Reads:
 14,788
  • Munich's Linux Plans - "LiMux" Put on Hold

    The Munich city administration is "standing by Linux" after all.

    According to reports today, Munich's Mayor Christian Ude has stated that his administration's IT experts had recently presented "strategic outlines" of the Linux project to officials from Augsburg and Nuernberg and noted that there was "interest in Munich's open source solution" from these German cities as well as from Vienna.

    As reported last week, tenders were indeed put on ice pending investigation of the implications of a European Union directive on "computer-implemented inventions" - such as an OS like Linux.

    Fears that switching to Linux could infringe up to 50 patents were based on a study carried out by the Foundation for Free Information Infrastructure. But it seems now that the situation may resolve itself and the good burghers of Munich may see their city switch to "LiMux" after all.

    • Published August 11, 2004 – Reads 14,788
    Copyright © 2004 SYS-CON Media, Inc. — All Rights Reserved.
    Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author.

    More Stories By Linux News Desk

    SYS-CON's Linux News Desk gathers stories, analysis, and information from around the Linux world and synthesizes them into an easy to digest format for IT/IS managers and other business decision-makers.

    Comments (0)

    Share your thoughts on this story.

    Add your comment
    You must be signed in to add a comment. Sign-in | Register

    In accordance with our Comment Policy, we encourage comments that are on topic, relevant and to-the-point. We will remove comments that include profanity, personal attacks, racial slurs, threats of violence, or other inappropriate material that violates our Terms and Conditions, and will block users who make repeated violations. We ask all readers to expect diversity of opinion and to treat one another with dignity and respect.