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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Could governments effectively subsidize open-source development?
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>> | "All students in France use open source," says Bertrand Diard, CEO and
>> | co-founder of Talend, a French pioneer of open source data integration
>> | software. "A lot of universities in the U.S., except probably MIT, use
>> | traditional tools like Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP." As a result, open
>> | source talent is more prevalent in France, Diard says; development is
>> | faster, and software quality is higher because French developers aren't
>> | distracted by proprietary and competing technology. "The culture of open
>> | source is more advanced here."
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>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10028891-16.html
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> Thats probably why micoshaft and all its asstroturfers spend a lot of time
> fighting French students to curtail their freedoms.
Sarko helps them. They bring him over to vacations and probably drape his
pockets (money and/or power).
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"There's a lot of Linux out there -- much more than Microsoft generally signals
publicly -- and their customers are using it..." --Paul DeGroot, a Directions
On Microsoft analyst.
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