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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. Re:How about some donations? by filbranden · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's great, but maybe you could appreciate what you have gotten for free and give maybe 10% of what you were paying before back to those open source projects?

    Or better yet, contribute code. With 10% of what you were paying for licenses, you can hire or pay developers to improve open source projects, you may even choose the features that you need. You contribute them so that others with the same needs may use them as well.

    Open source economics is based on the fact that code is worth more than money. Code you may share as much as you want. Money you may only split.