LiMux: GNU/Linux in Munich City Administration

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Munich is the first large city that is changing its data processing over to free software. In doing so, Munich found that it has to impose patent indemnification clauses in its tenders, thereby effectively excluding small and medium enterprises from bidding. The city administration has therefore spoken up against the EU Council's patent policy many times.

News & Chronology

• 2004-08-04 Mayor: migration project put on hold due to risks from EU patent policy

• 2004-07-23 DV-Leiter Münchens auf Limux-Veranstaltung: Softwarepatente gefährden Linux-Migration der Stadt

General Info

The name LiMux denotes the Linux Migration project of the Bavarian capital Munich, which started in 2003 and stirred media attention worldwide.

Websites

are currently under construction:

• http://www.limux-project.org/

• http://www.limux.de/