{"id":4973,"date":"2014-10-21T14:23:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2014-10-21T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:54:00","slug":"hamburgs-greens-want-to-be-rid-of-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=4973","title":{"rendered":"Hamburg&#8217;s Greens want to be rid of Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/10\/Tux-hamburg.png\" alt=\"Tux holding Hamburg coat of arms\" width=\"84\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4975\" \/>Hamburg&#8217;s Green want to wean the city council off its Microsoft dependency and are pointing to Munich city council&#8217;s use of Linux and free and open source software, German IT news website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heise.de\/open\/meldung\/Hamburger-Gruene-wollen-weg-von-Microsoft-2429150.html\">heise reports<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/10\/Farid_Mueller.jpg\" alt=\"Farid M\u00fcller\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4978\" \/>On the occasion of the impending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osb-alliance.de\/veranstaltungen\/detailansicht\/termin\/tx_cal_phpicalendar\/2014\/10\/21\/offener_it_gipfel\/\">2014 Open IT Summit<\/a> Hamburg&#8217;s Greens demanded the liberation of the city council from dependency on Microsoft. For Green Party Hamburg Parliament member <a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Farid_M%C3%BCller\">Farid M\u00fcller<\/a> (pictured left) it&#8217;s a matter of examining &#8220;if and how Hamburg can disengage itself from the US giant Microsoft&#8221;. The city must become independent of Microsoft the monopolist. By doing so it could also save millions in licensing costs. In this context M\u00fcller refers to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolwireless.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/16\/munich-sticks-with-limux-and-free-software\/\">LiMux project in Munich, where the city council&#8217;s use of Linux and free and open source software is currently under discussion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 Open IT Summit, whose emphasis is on open source and data security, is taking place today (Tuesday) as an alternative event to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.it-gipfel.de\/IT-Gipfel\/Navigation\/Gipfel2014\/programm.html\">IT summit with German Chancellor Angela Merkel<\/a> taking place in Hamburg. The range of topics extends from the Heartbleed bug via cloud computing up to a Microsoft exit strategy for Hamburg. a podium discussion will sound out whether a migration to free software is realistic for Hamburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamburg&#8217;s Green want to wean the city council off its Microsoft dependency and are pointing to Munich city council&#8217;s use of Linux and free and open source software, German IT news website heise reports today. On the occasion of the impending 2014 Open IT Summit Hamburg&#8217;s Greens demanded the liberation of the city council from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,15,9],"tags":[19,12,20,23],"class_list":["post-4973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-and-os-matters","category-open-source-software","category-politics","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-open-source","tag-politics-2","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4973"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4980,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions\/4980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}