French presidential candidates on free software, related issues
,----[ Quote ]
| The only question on which most candidates differed sharply was whether
| they were in favor of governments promoting open standards and free
| software. Yet, even here, the difference was mostly a matter of
| emphasis. Besancenot, Bové, Buffet, Le Pen, and Voynet all declared
| that they would encourage both open standards and free software,
| differing only on whether they would simply "encourage" them, as
| Le Pen promised, implement a policy favoring them, as Voynet suggested,
| or develop an agency to promote them, as Buffet suggested. By
| contrast, Bayrou and Royal, the two major candidates who responded,
| were more cautious, suggesting that such advocacy had to be tempered
| by the standards of responsible government. Bayrou in particular
| suggested that such principles as "good use of public funds," "freedom
| of access," and "equal treatment" were more important than promoting
| open standards and free software.
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http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/21/007248&from=rss
Related:
French students to get open-source software on USB key
,----[ Quote ]
| French authorities will give out 175,000 USB memory sticks
| loaded with open-source software to Parisian high-school
| students at the start of the next school year.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070202/tc_infoworld/85707
PSA Peugeot Citroen Chooses SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop From Novell
,----[ Quote ]
| Giant French Automaker to Deploy Linux Desktops, Citing Cost,
| Usability, Integration and Support
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070130/sftu114.html?.v=76
Mail and Safari banned from the French gendarmerie
,----[ Quote ]
| The Macs' future in the Gendarmerie has become ever gloomier since
| the very day this institution decided to get rid of Microsoft
| software. From now on the gendarmes will be using Linux-running
| PCs. Since you can't get a Mac without OSX, the fight can be
| ^^^
| considered as lost. At least, this was a place where Apple has
| been surviving longer than Microsoft...
`----
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2007-01-27/#6362
French consumer protectionists are demanding PCs without preinstalled
software
,----[ Quote ]
| The consumer protectionists of the French organization UFC-Que Choisir
| are demanding of the IT group Hewlett-Packard and the vendors Auchan
| and Darty that they offer PCs without preinstalled software.
|
| [...]
|
| UFC-Que Choisir last year also took action against Sony and Apple,
| taking the two companies to court for allegedly putting their
| customers at a disadvantage through proprietary DRM technologies
| and curtailing their choice of devices.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/82605/from/rss09
French consumer group attacks PC software bundling
,----[ Quote ]
| UFC-Que Choisir legal officer Sandra Wouhling said current
| practice effectively forced ordinary consumers to buy computers
| using Microsoft operating systems whereas companies anda
| dministrations were offered a real choice.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20061214:MTFH94365_2006-12-14_14-49-22_L14537403&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/yf7kfu
France pins hopes of growth on open-source software
,----[ Quote ]
| 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.
`----
http://open.itworld.com/4915/061205franceopen/page_1.html
French National Assembly switches to Linux
,----[ Quote ]
| Linux, OpenOffice and Firefox favoured
|
| [...]
|
| 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
| regions.
`----
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=7687
Bull to Supply the Most Powerful Civil Supercomputer in France to the
CCRT, the Center for Research and Technology Computing
,----[ Quote ]
| The system will be operated via an HPC platform specially optimized
| by Bull and featuring, notably: the Linux(R) operating system
`----
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/76313/index.html
Free Ubuntu laptops for French students
,----[ Quote ]
| Five thousand French students now have laptops running
| Ubuntu, thanks to a local government initiative.
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http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/597
http://linuxfr.org/2006/10/16/21479.html
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