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Paris Accelerates Move to Open Source

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the free-seems-to-motivate-a-lot-of-people dept.

* * Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us that the city of Paris is moving to open-source software a little faster than originally intended. As a part of the strategy to 'reduce its dependence on suppliers' they anticipate replacing both server and desktop applications with free and open-source software. From the article: "Earlier this year, volunteers among the city's 46,000 staff were invited to download and install open-source software to their desktops, including the Firefox browser and the Open Office.org productivity suite. Now, the city is planning to migrate all the users of one city department or all of those in one of the city's 20 districts, not just the volunteers, to test a larger migration. The city has 17,000 workstations, up from 12,000 in 2001"

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  1. Nothing new... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Paris went open source since her famous video went to the internet.

    Oh, wait...

    1. Re:Nothing new... by g2devi · · Score: 4, Funny

      > Paris went open source since her famous video went to the internet.

      I think you're confusing the licensing. Paris may be exposed, but you can't modify her.

      Basically, she's under a "shared" source license.

    2. Re:Nothing new... by Jherek+Carnelian · · Score: 2, Funny

      Paris went open source since her famous video went to the internet.

      Nah, everyone knows that proprietary systems get 'rooted' more often than open source.

    3. Re:Nothing new... by Hosiah · · Score: 2, Funny
      Paris may be exposed, but you can't modify her.

      But her plastic surgeon modifies her all the time...

  2. Good for her by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That should keep her Sidekick from getting hacked again.

  3. hmm by gcnaddict · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Paris Accelerates Move to Open Source"

    by distributing 100 dollar laptops with Red Hat Linux to every rioting teen

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  4. [grin] by Space+cowboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Never mind TFA, this is just payback time for the 'freedom fries' jibes... None of your nasty closed-source software - we will 'ave the free(dom) software instead!

    Oh, and I spit in your general direction!

    Simon :-)

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    1. Re:[grin] by bertramwooster · · Score: 2, Funny

      Just a small correction: you mean I fart in your general direction .

      And also...

      Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yer?

      See the løveli lakes

      The wonderful telephøne system

      And mani interesting furry animals

    2. Re:[grin] by Xaositecte · · Score: 2, Funny

      it's really not very hard to demonize the french, considering most of us Americans hated them -before- their UN antics

  5. Actually they had to switch because by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    the rioters burned all the Windows licenses.

  6. Microsoft HQ is not happy... by marcello_dl · · Score: 1, Funny

    France surrenders!

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  7. Good news! by dmccarty · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some of the French youth are extremely happy about getting their hands on Firefox.

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  8. Poor kiddies by Dekortage · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the article: The city is also responsible for IT matters in its primary and middle schools. There, it has installed Open Office on 2,150 computers, and plans to bring the total to 3,500 by the end of March, it said. French high schools are run directly by central government.

    B-b-b-but those poor kids won't learn how to use Microsoft Windows! How will they ever succeed in the real world?!

    (This is sarcasm, folks, regarding a commonly-cited reason for American school systems to standardize on Microsoft Windows.)

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  9. If Paris is moving toward open source.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    We should definitely change the name to "Freedom Source".

  10. The reason by mcgroarty · · Score: 5, Funny
    The reason France is so excited by open source:

    Wait for it...

    Wait...

    It runs faster.

  11. Now when you support open source... by pmike_bauer · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...you support malaria, riots, and car-torching.

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  12. France, sinking into anarchy by Abuzar · · Score: 2, Funny

    First, they start with beheading a stupid queen.

    Then, a bunch of punk ass kids get away with acting out violent Grand Theft Auto scenes.

    If that weren't enough, they made the gov't admit systemic racism to boot.

    Now they're all going open source? What the $!@# is goin' on? I guess you can really have your cake and eat it too!

    I'd pack up, move to Paris and join all that debauchery if I weren't scared piss of the US gearin' up for Operation Liberate France! Them nuke-totin' anarchists will not be allowed to get away with all this terrorism.

  13. Misreading by Joe+Random · · Score: 3, Funny

    Am I the only one who originally read the title as "Particle Accelerators Move to Open Source" and was preparing a "Beowolf cluster of strangelets" reply before realizing the truth?

  14. Re:Freedom Fries were appropriately named. by fbjon · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you misspelled '4. Defense industry profited!!!' there.

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  15. Re:Freedom Fries were appropriately named. by kesuki · · Score: 4, Funny

    You are really going to try to Karma Whore

    yeah Damn that Anonymous Coward, such a blatent karma whore there is hardly a single discussion where he hasn't got at least 5 or 6 +5 modded comments.

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  16. Re:Hui! by yiantsbro · · Score: 2, Funny

    "...since when are the French a 'race'?" since no other group will claim them--they must stand alone. Oh shit, guess that was more French bashing.