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1. Munich Starts Delayed Desktop Linux Rollout.

Author

Blau, John

Subjects
*MUNICIPAL government, *COMPUTER operating systems, *LINUX operating systems, *MICROSOFT operating systems, *LOCAL government, *APPLICATION software
Abstract

The article reports that the municipal government of Munich, Germany has begun migrating its computers to Linux operating system. The city had planned to move from Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system to Linux one year back. But due to some delays, this work could start one year late. As the operating system migration work started, the 100 of the city's 14,000 PCs had been switched from Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system and Office applications to Debian Linux and the OpenOffice suite in just a day.

Published
2006

2. German Police Seize Pirated Office Software.

Author

Blau, John and Bucken, Mike

Subjects
*ARREST, *SOFTWARE piracy, *COPYRIGHT infringement, *PIRACY (Copyright), *APPLICATION software, *COMPUTER software
Abstract

This article reports that local police arrested two people and confiscated nearly 200 pirated copies of Office 2003 software in Cologne, Germany. This event happened a day after Microsoft Corp. lodged a criminal complaint against the alleged software pirates. The duo was discovered after the company conducted a test purchase of products being sold at suspiciously low prices on eBay Inc.'s online auction site in Germany.

Published
2005

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