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Re: [News] Government's Free Software Success Story in German Schools

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____/ Matt on Friday 09 Oct 2009 04:08 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> German City MÃnster Launches Pilot Project For its Schools To Adopt Open
>> Source Software
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>> | At the moment, teachers are trying out OpenOffice in
>> | two schools. The suite will be made available to all
>> | schools in November 2009. "We plan to make OpenOffice
>> | the default office application for schools", said
>> | Citeq's spokesperson Stefan Schoenfelder.
>> |
>> | During September 2009, the city reported that 140 of
>> | its 360 servers are running GNU/Linux. In a press
>> | statement published on 23 September 2009, Citeq
>> | stated that using open source is making it easier for
>> | the departments to share information.
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>> http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/29337
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> 
> So the price German schools pay for MS Office just dropped again.

So did Microsoft's claimed "profit". They are still laying off employees
they can't afford.

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