[Linux-aus] Linux wins Munich vote (fwd)

[paul.cour1 at verizon.net (paul.cour1 at verizon.net)]

Hello gang

I typically shy away from the use of such words 
as awesome, incredible, gnarly, way cool, etc,
because of there "overuse" in the street culture,
but this news is awesome and perhaps incredible,
may be even a bit way cool ...

please read below!

paulc


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> From: Jon maddog Hall <maddog at li.org>
> Date: 2004/06/16 Wed PM 01:28:05 EDT
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> Subject: [Linux-aus] Linux wins Munich vote (fwd)
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> Just arrived (though Google news alert) - Linux has just won the vote of
> the Munich city council to transfer 14,000 desktops over from Microsoft.
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> *http://tinyurl.com/2tx8x
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> "* The switch will be the biggest PC defection to Linux ever, said 
> Brendan Barnicle, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities in Portland, 
> Oregon."
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> *Congratulations...
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