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Re:Ubuntu and open source help the City of Munich save millions by slgeorge on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @08:14AM (#8009205)
How many local government workers do you think spend their day using Gimp or Photoshop?

E-mail, basic document forms and internal applications are the major use-cases for that type of scenario.

Re:Ubuntu and open source help the City of Munich save millions by alkonaut on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @03:52PM (#8011857)
The cost of win (desktop) licenses is virtually zero, and office subscriptions are also dirt cheap. That's not where you save money. It's a few dollars per month. You can motivate that cost even for someone who uses office apps casually once a week.