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Story: Vienna hobbles open-source migration

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And another thing

It seems that every time there is a high profile adoption of Linux and/or open standards this is shortly followed by a hiatus, retraction and reversal which, in the minds of the suspicious, leads one to believe that M$ has brought pressure to bear one way or another.

It is particularly interesting to note that the Mozilla Organisation have stated that, for a fraction of the £6.3 pounds being spent to abandon this roll out of Linux, they could have enabled the kindergarten language-learning programme called 'Schlaumäuse' to run in Firefox, but which currently only runs in Internet Explorer and which was the stated reason for the U turn. Mozilla is apparently already working to achieve this.

So it does seem there are so many questions to be asked but once again M$ have prevailed whether we like it or not. Personally, I would like the choice and the freedon to choose, even if I end up by choosing (voluntarily, that is) M$, but the lack of this choice is unhealthy. 'nough said!

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