Opensource.muenchen.de Alternatives

opensource.muenchen.de reviews and mentions

• German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Apr 2024

  > When Munich did this it never got to a majority of their desktops, is my recollection, it maxed out in the 40%s.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

  > September 2006 — "Soft" migration begins.

  > October 2013 — Over 15,000 LiMux PC-workstations (of about 18,000 workstations)

  > December 2013 — Munich open-source switch was "completed successfully".

  > September 2016 - Microsoft moves its German headquarters to Munich.

  > November 2017 - The city council decided that LiMux will be replaced by a Windows-based infrastructure by the end of 2020. The costs for the migration are estimated to be around 90 million Euros.

  > May 2020 - Newly elected politicians in Munich take a U-turn and implement a plan to go back to the original plan of migrating to LiMux.

  They've still got a website up where they say some stuff about it, which itself is hosted MIT-licensed on GitHub with pretty regular commits:

  > Our strategic guidelines also provide for this:

  > > If economically and technologically or strategically sensible, LHM prioritizes the use of open source solutions, in particular to avoid company dependencies. LHM pursues this approach in both the application and infrastructure areas.

  https://opensource.muenchen.de/use.html

  https://github.com/it-at-m/opensource.muenchen.de/commits/ma...

  Well, it's not just about "FOSS" or whatever, is it? As a German state, you're better off not relying on making payments to a North American company.

  LibreOffice specifically was indeed decommissioned eventually in Munich (just within the last couple months!), though:

  > LibreOffice was used as an office package as part of Limux until the end of 2023.