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Red Hat vs. Switzerland:Official Complaint Against 40 Million Swiss Franc Contract

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 2 comments
Linix Pro Magazine; By Marcel Hilzinger 		Mail this story
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In February, the Swiss Federal Office for Construction and Logistics (Bundesamt für Bauten und Logistik, or BBL) sealed a deal with Microsoft for an estimated 35-million-dollars worth of licenses. Red Hat, along with 17 other Open Source enterprises, has filed an official complaint.

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Comments (2)

chalbersma ·
I wonder how this one will play out. This has the potential to change quite a bit. If governments will open their IT infastructure purchases to open contracts then Linux could see quite the increase in usership.
hkwint ·
The same happened in our country (NL); moreover: It happened twice. Most politicians don't understand the issues involved; that's sad. What's also sad is that IBM (IBM was involved over here; not RedHat) didn't complain.

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