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Munich LiMux: cautionary history

EuropePublic-sector reuse evidence B partly verified

City council decided in Nov 2017 to move to Windows 10 by 2020 (~EUR90M estimated cost) after staff complaints; contested as political. Oct 2024 reported five-point open-source plan. Negative lesson; primary council documents not read.

since
2004 (LiMux); 2017 reversal
scale
not verified here

Sources

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
  2. https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170301-01
  3. https://lwn.net/Articles/716174/

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