[NBLUG/talk] The Wall.... is coming down...

[Steve Zimmerman]

On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:58 pm, Mark Street wrote:
> All right, so it isn't Berlin.......  No wonder Ballmer sold off a billion
> worth of MS stock last week.
>
> Microsoft Loses City of Munich Deal to Linux
> Wed May 28, 2003 12:38 PM ET
> By Hans Nagl
>
> MUNICH (Reuters) - The city of Munich said on Wednesday it would switch
> 14,000 computers from Microsoft's Windows operating system to rival Linux
> in a deal estimated to be worth tens of millions of euros.
> [snip]

Linux is a European export, Europe deals with monopolies more
strictly and correctly than the U.S. does; they also have a lot
less people per capita in jails and prisons.  Europe has it all over
the U.S. in a number of ways.

-- 
Steve Zimmerman