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French Police To Switch 72,000 Desktop PCs To Linux
jones_supa writes "France's National Gendarmerie — the national law enforcement agency — is now running 37,000 desktop PCs with a custom distribution of Linux, and by summer of 2014, the agency plans to switch over all 72,000 of its desktop machines. The agency claims that the TCO of open source software is about 40 percent less than proprietary software from Microsoft, referring to their article published by EU's Interoperability Solutions for Public Administrations. Initially Gendarmerie has moved to Windows versions of cross-platform OSS applications such as OpenOffice, Firefox, and Thunderbird. Now they are completing the process by changing the OS. This is one of the largest known government deployments of Linux on the desktop."
I know in the U.S.A. you can barred from being a Police Officer if your I.Q. is to high. Are the French Police intelligent enough to use Linux ?
The fact that open source projects accept code from others doesn't mean that anyone can enter code into a project. New code is checked by a maintainer before being added to the project, to make sure it doesn't suck like closed source code often does.
Most of the old bugs are not in open sourced projects. Most of the open source projects find that security problems are in new code.
smart^W people like me are slow to change to new code unless they have to, because of security reasons. Doing that, others have time to find any bugs and straighten them out before we use the new code.
Its a win-win from a security standpoint to use open source. If you want - you can always do your own code review if you think something fishy is going on.
Please stop considering yourself smart.
> But I'm German!
So then it should be even easier for you to learn English to a degree where you don't sound like a retard, due to the close relation of English and German.
Best wishes,
Another German
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