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French National Assembly Embraces Open Source
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on Thu Nov 23, 2006 03:52 PM
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eldavojohn writes "The French National Assembly is in the news as they have recently switched to Linux, OpenOffice.org & open source software at the request of several deputy members. Bernard Carayon wrote it it into the proposal entitled 'On Equal Terms' [French PDF]. From the article, 'IT staff at the National Assembly have almost six months to prepare the switch to open source.' The same document urged France to adopt ODF as a standard. Hopefully things go more smoothly for them than the Birmingham library effort."
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eldavojohn writes "Birmingham, England put a stop to a half million pound project to put Linux and open source applications on library access PCs across the city. From the article, 'The council planned to roll out Linux software and applications on 1,500 desktops in libraries across the city, but in the end went no further than a 200-desktop project. Several industry watchers have voiced their concerns about the project, particularly around the number of PCs rolled out. Birmingham's expenditure averaged over 2,500 pounds per PC.' Why did they stop after 200 PCs? Because they claimed with Windows, the project would have been 100,000 pounds cheaper. One may wonder if they paid for initial training of their workforce making the first 200 more expensive than the rest but the article does not say whether or not this occurred."
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Well... (Score:5, Funny)
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No, because France didn't surrender to Bill Gates III.
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Safe Nuclear Power? (Score:2)
You put the words "safe" and "nuclear power" in the same sentence. That's an oxymoron.
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State subsidized nuclear power. (Score:2)
This has a European scope ... (Score:4, Interesting)
And my bias is that France (for short) will not be bribed by M$s.
CC.
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Mod parent down (Score:3, Informative)
Red Flag is state-founded [wikipedia.org], others aren't.
Please inform yourself before commenting or moderating inappropriately.
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New slogan (Score:5, Funny)
Does this mean (Score:1)
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Good for them! (Score:5, Insightful)
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Yes, but the French are smelly. British people are not. French people use Linux and nuclear power. The British run Windows and burn gas and oil to make elecricity. The French are proud of their culture. Britain tries to be like America.
See any connection?
Re:Good for them! (Score:5, Insightful)
That is true. They are very good at delivering projects too, at least from my UK perspective. We worked with them to make Concorde. They built that huge new bridge above the clouds in France [wikipedia.org].
I like many things about France. Let's hope they don't become too Anglicised/Americanised.
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God! I have to find an excuse to go and see that bridge. I'm going to have to dig out a tour book and find something in the region that I can tell my partner we're going to see without giving away that I want to go to France so I can look at a bridge.
a good but somewhat strange move.... (Score:2, Informative)
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Considering... (Score:5, Interesting)
On the other hand that was probably the plan all along: write a stupid law to placate the RIAA/MPAA of this world. A law so totally impossible to enforce, that any case brought in front of a court would be laughed out of the justice system. And then, benefit from Open Source, safe and sound in the knowledge that you [the members of Parliament] have taken your bribe, and you get to benefit from Open Source on top of it. Bastards.
And if you think I am making this up, I invite you to read the documents in the link above and discover the whole sorry mess for yourself.
[As a side note: I am French, and I despise all these wankers, so take this not as a troll, but a letting off steam.]
[Side note 2: also, I was one of the few French who actually took the time to protest the whole thing, so don't give me the "you should have done something" line Mmmmmm'kay?]
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Having seen the whole sorry state of affairs we have here in Europe for the moment surrounding software patents (Brit in Beglium), I salute a fellow geek who is not ashamed to show his true colours. Its abou
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Nice try. Let me translate that into French for you:
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OpenOffice is pretty sweet. (Score:1)
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Tools - AutoCorrect - "Word Completion" tab - uncheck the "Enable word completion" box (or else customise to suit taste).
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Trying to follow a conversation where the repl
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Would this post make any sense whatsoever without seeing it's context?
Email is the same, because:
Often in business people get CC:'d in right in the mid
Pour les gens français... (Score:2)
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The burqa ban applies to schools only.
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But anyway, I did not in any way mean it as an insault to the French people. On the contrary, I have been to France, it is one of the finest and most
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The wearing of the Islamic veil can lead to excl
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Yeah right, like wearing burqas was a way for women to free themselves... On second though, maybe not ! Maybe next step is to allow men to pour acid on unfaithful women because, clearly, they deserve
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The things that has been forbidden is the islamic veil (to hide hair) and only at school. It is only applied in their public school (there are already muslim private schools for those who cannot live without
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And of course all the dead pan humorist, and agnostics thinkers, funky artists and other enemy of orders.
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The Interior Ministry, Finance and Ec