August 2019
Intermediate
40m
English
case study
Incorporating Open Source by the Munich Local Government: Successes and failures
by Molly de Blanc
Closed Captioning available in German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
Overview
When Munich adopted a free and open source procurement policy, the GNU/Linux world soared. Several years later, after much success, the city council voted to abandon their efforts and return to a more proprietary system. Molly de Blanc talks about what happened in Munich and looks at other cities that have adopted free and open source procurement policies.
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