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Open source: What you should learn from the French
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| A decade ago, European countries leapt out of the gate to take the lead in
| the radical open source movement -- none more so than France -- and left U.S.
| developers in the proverbial dust. Through policies and high-profile
| projects, the French Republic for years has been advocating for all open
| source all the time, in government and education.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/28/35NF-open-source-france-lessons_1.html
Recent:
Open Source Government: France beats Italy 4-0!
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| Roberto explains that the goal of this group is to help structure the open
| source ecosystem in the Paris area by federating research laboratories, SMEs
| and big firms through R&D projects, partially supported by public funding in
| the standard scheme of competitivenes clusters.
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| Italy beat France on a soccer field, but on the open source ground we have a
| lot to learn from them.
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http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/06/20/open-source-government-france-beats-italy-4-0/
Related:
France pins hopes of growth on open-source software
http://open.itworld.com/4915/061205franceopen/page_1.html
French National Assembly switches to Linux
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=7687
Free Ubuntu laptops for French students
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/597
French consumer protectionists are demanding PCs without preinstalled
software
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/82605/from/rss09
French consumer group attacks PC software bundling
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
French police deal blow to Microsoft
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| The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft
| for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest
| administrations in the world to make the break.
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w
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
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