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Fingolfin
05-28-2003, 06:43 PM
Check out the latest news report:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=1&u=/nm/20030528/tc_nm/tech_munich_microsoft_dc

MUNICH (Reuters) - The city of Munich said on Wednesday it would switch 14,000 computers from Microsoft's Windows operating system to rival Linux (news - web sites) in a deal estimated to be worth tens of millions of euros.

Maybe there's still hope that Adobe will make a Linux version of their software.
googlo
05-28-2003, 09:40 PM
"You can compare this to the fall of the Berlin Wall," said Richard Seibt, Chief Executive of Linux software provider Suse. Suse is bidding for the Linux contract together with International Business Machines Corp.

What?!
RobertoOrtiz
05-28-2003, 09:46 PM
Comparing this move to the fall of the Berlin wall.
My God what a silly comment!
googlo
05-28-2003, 09:52 PM
I know! I'm not German (American) and hearing a company guy make a business deal comparison to the freedom of a people where they could be reunited with loved ones and a time in history where people suffered and even died.. Man, that's totally offensive!
erilaz
05-28-2003, 10:30 PM
Ick.. I mean, great, it's good to see linux making it out there, but some people just don't know when to keep their mouth shut.:surprised
schmu_20mol
05-29-2003, 01:54 AM
yeah....somtimes somebody should first think and then comment
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