The French Ministry for Education Adopts Red Hat Solutions
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| ...French Ministry for Education has migrated 2,500 servers across its 30
| local education authorities to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This decision was
| made in line with the Ministry's strategy to invest in open source solutions
| in order to free itself from the constraints associated with proprietary
| software and vendor lock-in.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070904/20070904005103.html?.v=1
France will be among the first countries to move entirely to Linux.
Related:
French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Choose Mandriva
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| The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries chose to migrate its local
| servers (about 400 machines) from Windows NT Server to Mandriva
| Corporate Server 4.0, within two years.
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http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr/french_ministry_of_agriculture_and_fisheries_choose_mandriva
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
French National Assembly switches to Linux
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| 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
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| regions.
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http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=7687
French consumer protectionists are demanding PCs without preinstalled
software
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| 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
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| 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 caters to market for the most simple of computers
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| For e39.90, or $53.30 - a e10 premium over the price of most broadband
| subscriptions in France - customers get a white computer roughly the size
| and shape of a toaster. A one-time payment of e29 buys a keyboard, mouse
| and camera; for e99 more, the customer can get a 14-inch color monitor.
|
| [...]
|
| For the operating system, the computer uses a version of Linux with
| a graphic overlay designed by Neuf.
|
| "The choice of open source was both for price and motivation,"
| Charrier said. "We pay no licensing fee for the software, and
| engineers feel motivated to work on a new kind of project that
| helps the open-source community."
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/02/technology/neuf.php
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