Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and return to Windows

Re:Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and retu... by gigatexal on Saturday February 11, 2017 @08:46PM (#13626090)

Don't be surprised if Microsoft made the windows licenses free or nearly so so that they could sell them office 365 licenses.

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Re:Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and retu... by tracker1 on Sunday February 12, 2017 @04:02PM (#13630784)

I'm half surprised they didn't try switching to o365 for their users, while keeping the linux desktop distro, and allowing for exceptions for specific use cases.

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Re:Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and retu... by luca_ing on Monday February 13, 2017 @08:44AM (#13635101)

They require lots of very specific applications. From what one hears (Munich native here), many of them are pretty bad.

Now, being bespoke apps, they'd probably just as horrible if they if they were Windows apps, but it just gets rolled into the Linux blame.

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