Hi Clytie, John, all,
Clytie Siddall wrote:
On 25/11/2006, at 8:56 AM, John McCreesh wrote:
"The project, backed by MPs Richard Cazenav and Bernard Carayon of the
UMP
party, will see 1,154 French parliamentary workstations running on an
open
source OS, with OpenOffice.org, Firefox and an open source email client."
http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39164312,00.htm
Congratulations to the French team again...
Mille félicitations! :D
Thank you both for your congratulations :-)
Congratulations on your great work. I remember a very dirty deal M$ did
with our state government, so we had to get rid of all our non-M$
machines, and use only Windows. Absolute monopoly.
So it's great to see the tide turning... ;)
This is not our work only.
In France, there is several associations (and even companies) that are
working hard for these adoptions. I can name them as Aful, April,
Adullact and all the Linux user groups. We are working all together
trying to combine our synergies in several manifestations, meetings and
discussions and petitions.
A the last Free software meeting (http://2006.rmll.info/?lang=en) their
was a political talk where politicians of all flavors came to discuss
about the legal environment for Floss, see :
http://2006.rmll.info/conf_154?lang=en
Those discussions have allowed us to build a real communication and
enforce our credibility. We are evaluated on the quality of our software
but also on the quality of our project and I must thank our French
members for what they bring in this area :-)
Kind regards
Sophie
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