Paris Accelerates Move to Open Source

* * 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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liberté, eqalité, fraternité

[matt me]

Liberty, equality, brotherhood. The tagline for the French republic. So they have to use free software , or they'd be breaking their ideals. Like "God bless America and the separation of church and state". I'm suprised the French don't use more free software, given their hate for America and the anglofication of their language, of which computers are a big cause. I used a French version of windows ocne. Only the very front was translated, any error messages, anything practically not visible at first view was still in English.

And thank the French language for having separate words gratuit and libre, to distringuish the meanings of free. No excuse for the open source buzzword coerupting ouyr message there.,

at first I didn't see ...

[Surt]

... how to properly insult the stupid french over this. But then I saw that, really, this represents the french surrendering to our open source power.

Re:Freedom Fries were appropriately named.

[Zphbeeblbrox]

1. Listened to france

2. Realized they didn't have any good points

3. ???

4. Profited!!!!

Re:Absolute bullshit

[boule75]

Is there anything by /. below -1 ? Because this one deserves it.

It is the same pack of sheer lies and half truth that was aired by anonymous US officials cowards for years now.
"Saddam was not compying": the inspectors told repeatedly the contrary, maybe he was not complying enough, but he was. Where they bugged?
"The Frogs would use their veto": right, but only because the previous resolutions were stating "no war while the inspections work", and they were at that time and a war was completely unecessary. And the Russians and the Chinese would have done the same. As well as most countries in the security council, so this would ot have been a veto, you see? As well as all people of the "grand coalition", especially Brits and Italians, who were overwhelmingly opposed to the war. Basically, Chirac, for once, had boll*qs for the others.
"The UN inspectors were overtime": er... no, indeed, Saddam _had_ complied in 1991 but had forgotten to advertise it at that time. Anyway, it is hard to prove one has destroyed something when one actually did, and even more to prove it to someone that will not believe you, however hard one tries.
"all western intelligence agencies were agreeing Saddam had WMD": er... no again. Have you heard them by the way? All had doubts, certainly, but what more?

And so on and so on. In the end, the facts matter and one can already guess who was right: the warmongers ot the others.

Bye coward.