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Thursday, September 19, 2013

World Domination Defeated By Ubuntu

I just love seeing open source products competing in the mainstream with corporates. Especially when those corporates are trying to dominate the market. Recently the council in Munich handed out DVD/CDs with Ubuntu 12.0 to the public for free. In order to stave off a glut of computers going to the trash bins. As windows xp is no longer "supported" by Microsoft, and older computers require...well older operating systems. The kind Munich municipality council decided to educate, by way of a give away, that there are other alternatives to the vanilla Operating Systems. And to show that you can extend the usefulness of older box's. The story is quite inspiring here is the link