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<title>City of Munich receives European Document Freedom Day Prize</title>
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<h1>City of Munich receives European Document Freedom Day Prize</h1>
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<p>At <a href="http://documentfreedom.org">Document
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Freedom Day</a> on 30 March 2011, the Free Software Foundation Europe
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(FSFE) awarded the German City of Munich the Document Freedom Day
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Prize.</p>
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<p>"The regional city of Munich shows in an exemplary manner what the city
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council of a big city in Germany can achieve with free software. With the
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LiMux project, Munich is a pioneer of open standards use in both Germany
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and Europe. We hope that many will follow this modern and open attitude."
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said FSFE President Karsten Gerloff. </p>
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<p>LiMux is currently the largest GNU/Linux project in Germany. It is
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expected that with this project, 80% of the 15,000 PC desktops of the city
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council of the capital city of Bavaria will have migrated to the free
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operating system GNU/Linux by 2013. Since 2009, all PC desktops have moved
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to a free office-communication platform (OpenOffice.org, Thunderbird,
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Firefox) and almost 6,000 computers have been using the LiMux client. The
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regional capital city has also developed the document management system <a
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href="http://www.wollmux.org">Wollmux</a> which was published as free
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software under the European Union Public License (EUPL) and is available
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for other users for free as an open standard. </p>
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<p>"Munich is a citizen-driven, flexible and open city. This is also
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reflected in the use of open standards and free software. With the use of
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open standards, we also strengthen the economy in Munich, by giving the many
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Munich-based IT service providers the opportunity to participate in the
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development." said City Mayor Christine Strobl. </p>
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<p>Press materials are available on <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/DFD-2011-Berlin-Hamburg-Bilder">a separate
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page</a>.</p>
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