Munix was by all accounts a success on a technical level that could be replicated by any European administration.

The problem was, of course, political. The incoming conservative admin needed to paint the progressive competition as incompetent, and do the usual corruption of course. So they jumped on one department’s complaint about an issue with one piece of software to cancel and roll back the entire fucking project.

A few months later, Microsoft opened up their new European headquarters in Munich. By sheer coincidence I’m sure.