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by vollbrecht 434 days ago
There was an interesting story with the LiMux[1] ( Linux & Munich) project. The local government in Munich used it for quite some time. But than Microsoft came and installed there German Headquarters in Munich. With that new headquarter and enough lobbying, LiMux was forced out by the then new government just the moment it got "successful".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
1 comments
mschuster91 434 days ago
LiMux always gets mentioned in such topics... it's an interesting story and as I've actually worked there early in my career I've written a few times about what the actual issues were and why it failed - you might read through [1].

tl;dr: LiMux didn't just fail due to politics (although politics did play a large role and I will forever dislike Dieter Reiter for a multitude of reasons, LiMux being among them), it was set up for failure from the beginning, mostly budget related.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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deknos 433 days ago
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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mschuster91 433 days ago
> 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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deknos 433 days ago
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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mschuster91 433 days ago
Indeed! Can you send me an email so I have yours again?
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deknos 427 days ago
i do not have your email... but you SHOULD have my telephonenumber. i gave it to you.
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