Proprietary software Indifference – Germany radio

The X is for clicking away. And when the system hangs, then you have to press + Alt + Del Ctrl. A quarter century of Windows has left its mark. One knows the user and may not get used. In addition, then yes no longer would run even one or the other application. Anyone switching to open source software, which has to want it right. Otherwise nothing goes

“15,000 units is: It has a wide variety of technologies and of course has to work all the others is:… A commune in the size of Munich has of course very, very many specialist applications – social services, for citizens, the driver’s license being … whatever As you come to several hundred And these applications all have as their ideas, what runs on the PC and many of them have the idea:… As a Windows must be running ” , Karl-Heinz Schneider from the IT department of the City of Munich.

Over ten years ago the Bavarian capital has begun their OS migration project. Meanwhile, it has been successfully completed. On the PCs in the offices instead running Windows and Microsoft Office Linux and OpenOffice. Many difficulties had to be overcome, for example, rewritten or application programs are installed on servers in the data center. The result: With open source software account for license costs and the dependence on a single vendor. Agreement among the users of open source software are that the open source code increases security. Linux developers Andreas Gredler:.

“The fact that I can look at the code, I’m doing me much easier to look for vulnerabilities or find random With Open Source I need just only the code to open and can daily. That is, it will attract to make even more people. “

EU Commission recommends open file formats, but uses them not himself

Even Karl-Heinz Schneider shares this view. The Munich-based Linux project is the most famous, which was also successful. Largely forgotten, however, are the many failed – in Freiburg as in Mannheim and the Foreign Ministry in Berlin. And even the city of Munich has a few Windows PCs and will probably also need to keep. Because Microsoft’s Office software Office is not running on Linux. And many users to send files in Microsoft Office format from Munich Town Hall. Most of them sit in the EU Commission in Brussels, the open file formats, although explicitly propagated, but does not use them itself:

“So where we have such exceptions and say: Yes, dear employees , clearly, you need a Windows PC – there is no alternative -. are there many places that it therefore need, because they interact with the EU We think of course very regrettable “

Obviously you take. In many places in Europe, the good arguments for open source software, and even one’s own commitment to not only too. Migration projects are lengthy and in the public sector can only be successful if politically really wanted. The Foreign Office about began even before the city of Munich with the switch to Linux. But then, in 2009, changed the political leadership, and shortly after the Berlin Foreign Ministry began back in Redmond, in the United States to buy. There, incidentally, in the United States, there is an authority, the Open Source Software appreciate especially, the NSA, the National Security Agency. Yes, exactly. The has developed its own Linux software for their own purposes. SE-Linux is the. The S stands for security, safety. Because nobody knows better than the NSA, that indifference is a mortal sin in security issues.