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French Military Police Switches to Firefox

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the open-source-poster-child dept.

Oslo_the_CKC writes to tell us that French Magazine Linux Pratique recently published an interview with General Brachet of the Gendarmie Nationale. In the interview he discusses why they have moved over 100,000 personnel over to Firefox and Thunderbird (70,000 and 45,000 respectively). This follows on last year's switch to OpenOffice.org so it seems like the French Military Police are enjoying the success of open source.

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  1. Obligatory distasteful WWII jibe by ettlz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And about time. I mean, you'd think they would've learned from that business with the Maginot Line that a stateful firewall alone is insufficient.