<div dir="ltr"><b><Snippet: "Our main goal was to become independent." <cite>Peter Hofmann, project lead></cite></b><div><br>Breaking up with Microsoft is hard to do. Just ask Peter Hofmann, the
man leading the City of Munich's project to ditch Windows and Office in
favour of open source alternatives.<p>The project took close to a
decade to complete, has seen the city wrestle with legal uncertainties
and earned Munich a visit from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, whose pleas
to the mayor of Germany's third largest city not to switch fell on deaf
ears.</p><p>Munich says the move to open source has saved it more than €10m, a claim <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/no-microsoft-open-source-software-really-is-cheaper-insists-munich-7000010918/">contested by Microsoft</a>, yet Hofmann says the point of making the switch was never about money, but about freedom.</p>
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