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French Lawmakers Hope to Inspire Linux Revolution
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| If the French National Assembly gets its way, the open-source Linux operating
| system will take over the governments of Europe, seizing on a weak economy to
| displace Windows.
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| About 18 months ago, the Assembly shifted from running Windows on the 1,100
| computers of its members and their assistants to running a version of Linux
| called Ubuntu. (I profiled the rise of Ubuntu in a recent article.) According
| to Rudy Salles, vice president of the assembly, the decision to abandon
| Microsoft’s Windows software was both an economic and political gesture.
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| The French Parliament should save about 500,000 euros over the next five
| years, thanks to the low price of Ubuntu –- free –- and have lower management
| costs. Linux tends to have fewer security issues than Windows, for example.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/french-lawmakers-hope-to-inspire-linux-revolution/
Recent:
French government using Drupal
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| The French Ministry for Health, Youth and Sport launched a Drupal-based
| information portal for French youth: http://www.jeunes.gouv.fr. Building on
| the rapid adoption of Drupal by non-profit and advocacy groups, Drupal's use
| by governments just keeps increasing!
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http://buytaert.net/french-government-using-drupal
Parlez-vous le Linux?
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| Not only do the French have a different word for everything, they also have a
| strong Open Source leadership position. The French have done much to foster
| the growth and acceptance of Open Source software--especially Linux. The
| Mandriva Linux distribution was born and raised in France (now in its 10th
| year), the French government offers tax incentives to encourage more Open
| Source development, and more 175,000 memory sticks with Open Source software
| were given to Parisian high school students last year.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3066.html
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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