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French Police Ditching Windows for Linux

Posted by samzenpus on from the viva-la-revolucion dept.

esocid writes "In another European blow to Microsoft the French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest administrations in the world to make the break. The gendarmerie began severing its ties with Microsoft in 2005 when it moved to open source office applications like word processing. It switched to open source Internet browsers in 2006."

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  1. Better headline by osgeek · · Score: 4, Funny

    French police surrender to Linux

    Yes, yes, it's more of a cliche than a joke.

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    1. Re:Better headline by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 2, Funny

      How about "Microsoft surrenders to Inspector Clouseau" then?

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    2. Re:Better headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      "flung their wooden shoes [...] called "sabots" into the machines to stop them, hence the word "sabotage"." There, fixed that for you, after all, what kind of self-respecting geek would I be if I couldn't correct your Star Trek quote?
  2. C'est évident: by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tous vos bureaux sont nous appartiennent!

  3. Crap by Nimey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now we'll have to rename Linux to FreedomOS.

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    1. Re:Crap by flyingfsck · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yah want a server wiz dat?

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  4. Re:Mais je pense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    je nes parles pas francais....

  5. Re:Linux does make sense. by jalet · · Score: 3, Funny

    > And no one fucks with them,

    Just like with Slashdotters, unfortunately ;-)

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