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Over half my life I've been reading this headline. "[Subdivision of Germany] switches to Linux". Here's some slashdot slop from 2002.

You'd think Microsoft would be dead and buried by now, or that the readers would have realized how inconsequential these changes are. One or the other.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/25936



problem is these changes are constantly reverted (back to Microsoft services)


Microsoft had to move their local headquarters to Munich to have their municipality revert the change...

Now, if two or more municipalities managed to migrate to Linux at the same time...


Right, but if you point out that the median time to uninstall Open Office is two minutes people get mad.




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