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Aardwolf

Slashdot, 2001:

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/01/10/16/1525231/german-par...

And 2006:

https://slashdot.org/story/06/10/28/226211/munich-migrating-...

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Ahh... I thought this was the first ever instance.

So Munich goes open source -> Hamburg gets inspired

and BAM - 14 years later it follows suit.

Munich went full Windows again after a new mayor got elected who went straight to criticizing LiMux (Munich's Linux distro) and pushed to adopt Windows within his first weeks. A few months after the decision had been made, Microsoft relocated their German headquarters from Hamburg to Munich.

Projected costs for the switch back: 86.5 million Euro within the first six years.

A study by the city revealed that LiMux saved the city 10 million Euro over its lifetime.

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