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

    the rioters burned all the Windows licenses.

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

    Wait for it...

    Wait...

    It runs faster.

  8. 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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