France pins hopes of growth on open-source software
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| The French government plans to make the region around Paris a center of
| excellence for open-source software development, the French Minister of the
| Economy, Finance and Industry, Thierry Breton, said Monday.
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http://open.itworld.com/4915/061205franceopen/page_1.html
Recently:
French National Assembly switches to Linux
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| Linux, OpenOffice and Firefox favoured
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| One deputy in favour of the move is Bernard Carayon, commissioned by
| the Prime Minister earlier this year to report on how European
| businesses could play a greater role in developing global industrial
| standards, in order to reduce Europe's economic dependance on other
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| regions.
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http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=7687
These not even a mention of choice, lockins and business ethics.
France could join all these 'silicon valleys' for Linux and FOSS. These
emerge in Europe and Asia.
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