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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. Re:100,000 personnel by ^Case^ · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not french, so take this with a grain of salt but: The Gendarmerie in France is used for a whole lot more than policing the military. When you go skiing in France and end up being a bit too noisy in your hotel it's the gendarmerie that shows up, politely asking you to tone it down - being 6 feet tall and 6 feet wide and wearing skimasks in the hotel of course - at least, that's how I remember them ;-)

  2. Re:More surrender crap?? by gabraham · · Score: 4, Funny

    You surrendered your points when you posted a comment.

  3. Re:In Other News, Ballmer... by masklinn · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news, Steve Ballmer has vowed to Fucking Kill(TM) the French military police.

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  4. WTF? Who did I piss off? by mmell · · Score: 5, Funny
    50% insightful, 30% overrated, 20% flamebait.

    I'm guessing that 30% of the moderators work for Microsoft and 20% of them are French.