Firefox ousts Microsoft in France
p2p news / p2pnet: France’s military police force is to switch to Firefox and Thunderbird, says Silicom.com, quoting the magazine Linux Practique.
The gendarmerie’s head of IT, General Brachet, "revealed the switch to Firefox will cover 75,000 of the gendarmerie’s more than 100,000 seats while the move to Thunderbird will encompass 45,000 users over the course of this year," says the story, adding:
"The switch follows the gendarmerie’s adoption of OpenOffice last year, when the French force transferred all of its desktops from Microsoft software to open source."
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Silicom.com – French gendarmes go open source, January 5, 2006
January 5th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
Meanwhile, the governement’s DADVSI bill that shall be voted again on Jan. 17th in the french Parliament is known to be a trojan against open source software…
…France’s logic is once again…illogical.
Frenchmen, vote Spock for President, not Chirac !