French Military Contributes To Thunderbird 3

fredboboss sends news about Mozilla's email client Thunderbird 3, whose release we noted last week. "Thunderbird 3 contains code from the French military, which decided the open source product was more secure than Microsoft's rival Outlook. The French government is beginning to move to other open source software, including Linux instead of Windows and OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office. Thunderbird 3 used some of the code from TrustedBird, a generalized and co-branded version of Thunderbird with security extensions built by the French military."

Comments

Nah,

[gzipped_tar]

I'll just go on with enigmail.

Thunderbirds are go!

[Kaeso]

Am I the only one who read the headline and first thought of the old TV show?

Re:It's over... it's all over

[cheesybagel]

This was not like WWI. Advances in tanks, bombers, fighters, meant there was less of a chance to successfully stave off a first strike. The Soviet Union held out because of the sheer size of the country. In initial phases of the invasion of the Soviet Union, the Nazis invaded many times the area of France over. The SU had to dismantle their industry in a hurry and move production behind the Urals, where the Luftwaffe could not reach them.

You seen to forget not only French but British forces withdrew from France after the Battle of Dunkirk. They took the full brunt of the Nazi military. There was no Eastern Front open at the time. The US fought a diminished Nazi force which had lost a million men in Stalingrad. The European allies problem was not invading Germany sooner, like at time time of the partition of Czechoslovakia.