Munich GNU/Linux Migration Suspended

(. . . due to SW patent indeterminacy.  -- Seth)


> http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/04/08/04/1233241.shtml?tid=163&tid=155&tid=218


City of Munich Freezes Its Linux Migration

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 04, @08:41AM

from the patently-something dept.

Jan0815 writes "Yesterday I received disturbing news from the CTO of Munich,
Wilhelm Hoegner. As previously mentioned, there is a rising concern that
software patents could stifle development of open source worldwide. FFII has
complete coverage of what is going on in Europe." (FFII stands for
Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure.) Reader jmt(tm) writes
"The call for bids was supposed to be published in late July, but the Munich
Green Party had pointed out about 50 possible patent conflicts which the
city wants to evaluate before moving on.


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