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Re:City of Barcelona moving away from proprietary software by unmango on Monday January 15, 2018 @08:01AM (#16150202)
So what will be the cost of deploying Linux, retraining on Linux, and then going back to Windows?

These people can afford to make stupid decisions because it's not their own money they are wasting.

The only reason this is happening is crony capitalism: they want to do a favour to the local open source businesses (there are a few of them) which are friendly to the local government. They will get lots of support contracts. It's blatant corruption.

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Re:City of Barcelona moving away from proprietary software by tankenmate on Monday January 15, 2018 @09:34AM (#16150710)
Actually a sizeable percentage of the public do support it because it has much better support for their native tongue.
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