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France Considers Open Source
joestar writes "Reuters today announced that the French Government is considering Open Source Software adoption as an excellent alternative to reduce their IT costs. A cost reduction of several hundred millions dollars is planned by replacing proprietary licenses by Open-Source solutions. 'Microsoft must return to being one supplier to the state among others', declared a government Minister. France's culture, agriculture and finance ministries had already signed deals with Mandrakesoft for first Linux deployment tests. After Munich's new move in Germany, it seems that Open Source Software is currently a major movement in old Europe."
Switching to Open Source would be the least of the economic problems.
Those slimy no-good French -- they can't do anything but complain about us, their liberatizers twice over.
Why don't they just call it the People's Republic of France, put a red star on their flag and go all the way!
Thank you and God bless America.
George W. Bush
President, United States of America
This is a joke... not a troll
"Insanity in individuals is something rare, but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule." - Nietzsche
When in France, do what the French do: They steal from other French people.
Dirty Frogs!
I don't know anything about france, but I know they are retards, they smell, they don't have showers, they are in war with germany and their girls don't shave because french like hairs. bon apetit
What Europeans think is that we need to fight Americans or the future will not be bright.
We can't be controlled by American Coorporations.
That's different from the American point of view where Micro$oft is just a criminal company.
I'll still like OSS even if the French get involved. The key will be to keep them from contributing to it and making a mess of it.
And the french know it! :D
Open source is great! It's like having an army of slaves from all around the world working for us. And you know what? They don't take a buck!
I love open source. It allows me to take the hard work of other people and sell it without my company spending money on development costs. That way, everyone benefits from it. Well, everyone but the original developers.
But hey, they will continue the development of those open source products. They don't care, my wallet don't care
They're happy, i'm happy!
Everyone's happy!!!
go go open source.
You are pretty much bullshitting, as your insightful points prove.
.net is free, the compiler etc... Actually you have also free, open source tools for Microsoft, so you can develop with the same open source quality tools for Microsoft. If you want higher quality, pay up for visual studio.
Open source tools suck, and Microsoft's
But hey, I know where you are coming from. You love to bullshit here, right? Stupid slashdotter. I wonder if you guys are all losers?
yawn....
Now that's hilarious:
"Captors behead U.S. hostage Johnson"
LMAO another one
You are a short sighted idiot.
The open source itself is a lock in since you rely on some developer in some part of the world that you never see. If that person decides to change the license you have nothing to do about it. You lose the developer and the project, since you can't find quickly a new developer to pick it up.
Linux reduces the number of jobs, since you can't make money off the GPL software directly. Thus only few companies with strong connections can make money. GPL destroys programming jobs, it doesn't create them.
Patriotism means making the best decision for your country. Slashdot is certainly the last place to make that happen.
G.W. Bush, is that you ?
Votez ecolo : Chiez dans l'urne !
France is evil because they were singlehandeldy building Saddam's arsenal and tunnels. When their behavior was called onto the carpet, they decided that they didn't like being called out. They then tried everything to stop the US from dealing with Saddaam because it would expose their corruption to the world. But for once, we have a president that did not back down.
Now, they are doing the same, giving nuclear arms to the Iranians. We are now going through the IEAE charade. But, I think it may be again time to show that we are not going to tolerate this.
France has become totally corrupt. If you don't belive me, look at the coverup going on at the UN with the Oil-for-food prgram. The head director and his cronies were french. The french government got kickbacks from this program in order to look the other way.
France has lost its way and has turned evil. They sell weapons to anyone, reinforce governments that oppose the US and are totally corrupt.
Millions dead through the centuries and you don't see why surrender isn't funny?
This one goes out to all the Jews that were unsuccessful at not being exterminated in WW2.
THROUGH ANOTHER JEW ON THE BBQ!
Not funny, as is the option to surrender.
They smell, they are ugly (look laetitia casta :(), they're living in communist society worse than staline's country (at least), they don't want to be our slaves (damn'!!), they don't want to suck our d***, they try to build an european unity against us, they don't want to battle everywhere our clever president want to bring democracy (or abuses, i cant remind...) , its well knowns allies are north korea, iran, iraq, islamists and terrorists. They spend money to make us eat fat foods and increase our weigths. They play to women sport (soccer). They feel good to give some free aid to poor peoples, they don't want to let them die. They don't believe all the wonderfull speech of our wonderfull president (bad peoples (others), good peoples (us),...).
what's kind of guys are these frenchies !
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