Swiss City Of Bern To Switch To Free And Open Source IT Solutions

It's quite interesting, since Switzerland has been quite "under the thumb" for a while when it comes to proprietory software, so this comes as a welcome relief.

Disclaimer: I live and work in Switzerland.

Re: Swiss City Of Bern To Switch To Free And Open Source IT Solutions

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Post by BasDirks » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 7:42 PM UTC

rasur wrote: post #4

It's quite interesting, since Switzerland has been quite "under the thumb" for a while when it comes to proprietory software, so this comes as a welcome relief. Disclaimer: I live and work in Switzerland.

Quite unrelated but could I ask you a question or two (via e-mail/irc) about working in Swiss IT?

Re: Swiss City Of Bern To Switch To Free And Open Source IT Solutions

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Post by hei_zen » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 8:31 PM UTC

The city of Munich even has created their own Linux distro in 2006, called LiMux, which is part of the identically named LiMux project, aimed at switching all their software systems to free and open source software. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux)

Re: Swiss City Of Bern To Switch To Free And Open Source IT Solutions

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Post by rasur » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 10:10 PM UTC

BasDirks wrote: post #5

rasur wrote: post #4

It's quite interesting, since Switzerland has been quite "under the thumb" for a while when it comes to proprietory software, so this comes as a welcome relief. Disclaimer: I live and work in Switzerland.

Quite unrelated but could I ask you a question or two (via e-mail/irc) about working in Swiss IT?

sure. email's on my profile.

edit: ok.. my username at bluewin dot ch (however, i'm going to bed soon, so you may get an answer in some hours..! ;) )

Re: Swiss City Of Bern To Switch To Free And Open Source IT Solutions

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 10:11 PM UTC

rasur wrote: post #7

BasDirks wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quite unrelated but could I ask you a question or two (via e-mail/irc) about working in Swiss IT?

sure. email's on my profile. edit: ok.. my username at bluewin dot ch (however, i'm going to bed soon, so you may get an answer in some hours..! ;) )

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Re: Swiss City Of Bern To Switch To Free And Open Source IT Solutions

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Post by BasDirks » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 10:13 PM UTC

rasur wrote: post #7

BasDirks wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quite unrelated but could I ask you a question or two (via e-mail/irc) about working in Swiss IT?

sure. email's on my profile. edit: ok.. my username at bluewin dot ch (however, i'm going to bed soon, so you may get an answer in some hours..! ;) )

then you've hidden it well ^^ I don't see it. edit: cheers.

Re: Swiss City Of Bern To Switch To Free And Open Source IT Solutions

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Post by kyllo » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 10:47 PM UTC

Cool. It would be interesting to see an estimate of the savings from software license purchases they no longer have to make, and what they plan to do with the savings.