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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:Obligatory distasteful WWII jibe by Pyrion · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Maginot Line was no analogous firewall. It was more like a sieve.

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  2. Re:Why the switch? by P3NIS_CLEAVER · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...and stupid asshole are you!

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  3. Re:WWII by TrevelyanL85A2 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Part of that 20 million also died from the Russian's own hand for political crimes....