So they'll promise a new office building or a datacenter to create jobs... Didn't Munich do this once already and that was the result?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux?wprov=sfla1

_In 2013, Microsoft had announced in 2013 its intention to move its German headquarters to Munich in 2016, which according to Reiter though, is unrelated to the criticism they've presented against the LiMux project.[9]

In 2014, Munich deputy mayor, Josef Schmid, and mayor, Dieter Reiter, considered going back to Windows due to alleged productivity problems. However, Stefan Hauf, the spokesman of the Munich city council stated that the majority of issues stem from compatibility issues in OpenOffice, something which could be solved by switching to LibreOffice.[10] Moreover, the head of municipal IT services, Karl-Heinz Schneider, stated that most things were fine, and they had managed saved some 10 million euros (more than 13 million dollars). He emphasized that the number of complaints and malfunctions had not exceeded the usual level for an organization of this size.[citation needed]

In 2016, Microsoft relocated its German headquarters to Munich.[11]

In November 2017 Munich city council decided to revert to Windows by 2020 with all systems being replaced by Windows 10 counterparts. Some of the reasons cited were adoption and users being unhappy with the lack of software available for Linux. A report commissioned by Munich and undertaken by Accenture, found the most important issues were organizational.[citation needed]_