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Re:Lessons from open source in the Mexican government by deknos on Monday April 07, 2025 @08:55AM (#43610731)
Not really. I worked there. We had no budget issues. The dismissal was political.

The issue was propaganda. There are even rumors that Dieter Reiter told someone that he regretted moving away from LiMux after he had to pay so much money for IT.

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Re:Lessons from open source in the Mexican government by mschuster91 on Monday April 07, 2025 @10:17AM (#43611825)
> We had no budget issues.

Depends on how one judges the state of equipment - I remember my private laptop having 4x the RAM than the city's computer... or my school's MuSiN computers running on win2k (!) until at the very least 2012. If that isn't a budget problem, I really really don't know what else could be one.

> There are even rumors that Dieter Reiter told someone that he regretted moving away from LiMux

Reiter regretting something, now that might be a first for him

Anyway nice to see (or rather: read) you again!

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Re:Lessons from open source in the Mexican government by deknos on Monday April 07, 2025 @11:36AM (#43612701)
Well, computer power was not super, but it was enough for most tasks.

and musin is not the city of munich, that's federated governments for you

> Anyway nice to see (or rather: read) you again!

Dito, i hope you are fine :)

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Re:Lessons from open source in the Mexican government by mschuster91 on Monday April 07, 2025 @03:59PM (#43615316)
Indeed! Can you send me an email so I have yours again?
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Re:Lessons from open source in the Mexican government by deknos on Sunday April 13, 2025 @06:10AM (#43671643)
i do not have your email... but you SHOULD have my telephonenumber. i gave it to you.
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