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Prime Minister to French Government: Favor FOSS Wherever Possible

Posted by Unknown on from the this-is-what-happens-when-socialism dept.

concertina226 writes with interesting news from France. From the article: "French government agencies could become more active participants in Free Software projects, under an action plan sent by Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault in a letter to ministers (PDF, and in French of course), while software giants Microsoft and Oracle might lose out as the government pushes Free Software such as LibreOffice or PostgreSQL in some areas. ... He also wants them to reinvest between 5 percent and 10 percent of the money they save through not paying for proprietary software licenses, spending it instead on contributing to the development of the free software. The administration already submits patches and bug fixes for the applications it uses, but Ayrault wants to go beyond that, contributing to or paying for the addition of new functionality to the software."

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  1. oh my some sense... from the french by johnjones · · Score: 4, Funny

    helping the french economy by cutting costs and if they employ some french nationals to actually do the work that might help the french employment...

    whatever next

    regards

    John Jones

  2. Re:FOSS Visual Studio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Emacs

    Fixed that for you :p

  3. Re:One sterp forwards... by jbrandv · · Score: 4, Funny

    Come on! Everyone knows the first French fries were made in grease... ;-)

  4. Re:This is what I have been saying for years... by Hatta · · Score: 4, Funny

    From a society point of view Open Source software within the government (or government services) makes a lot of sense.

    Which is why this will never happen in the US.

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  5. Re:FOSS Visual Studio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    iMac

    Fixed that for you. :p

  6. Overheard by wbr1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ballmer and Ellison exhorting "zut alors!"

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