Open Source will never be the same…
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| 03/03/2008 - Ongoing rumors say that the French government is soon
| going to announce the creation of a major actor in the world of software
| development that will group together the main French Open-Source companies.*
|
| [...]
|
| Even more ambitious, the new entity is rumored to be preparing an IPO on
| RED HAT with the help of BOUYGUES, BOLLORÉ, LAGARDÈRE and DASSAULT
| SYSTÈMES in the context of a public-private partnership that will
| provide financing up to $5 billion. This initiative will at last give a
| French company the ability to play a leading role on the enterprise
| software market. The French government is keen to offer other countries
| and their people free alternatives to the dominant offerings of
| convicted monopolists MICROSOFT & ORACLE.
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http://edwink.devhd.com/2008/03/31/open-source-will-never-be-the-same/
The Nicolas 'Microsoft' Sarkozy bit gives it away.
Microsoft looks forward to working with the OSI
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| Hi, Steve Ballmer here. We're pleased as punch to announce the acquisition of
| the Open Source community into the Microsoft fold. As I've said before, it's
| all about the developers. Developers, developers, developers! And now that
| we're partnering with the Open Source community, and adding Linux
| compatibility to Windows, we've opened many doors and gates to our customers.
|
| In the OSI board election held at the end of March, we've gotten a
controlling majority of board seats. No, Mr. Perens, you didn't get a seat.
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http://opensource.org/node/283
Watch the logo.
The Open Source Initiative looks forward to working with Microsoft
http://opensource.org/node/282
Related:
173 000 French students and 40 000 teachers to get Firefox on a USB key
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| Jean-Paul Huchon, president of the Région Ile de France (the greater Paris
| local government) has announced yesterday that his administration has started
| distributing 220 000 USB keys with Free and Open-Source software on it,
| including Firefox. The recipients are mostly students (173 000 of them) and
| teachers (40 000).
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http://standblog.org/blog/post/2007/10/09/175-000-French-students-and-40-000-teachers-to-get-Firefox-on-a-USB-key
French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Choose Mandriva
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| The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries chose to migrate its local
| servers (about 400 machines) from Windows NT Server to Mandriva
| Corporate Server 4.0, within two years.
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http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr/french_ministry_of_agriculture_and_fisheries_choose_mandriva
France pins hopes of growth on open-source software
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| The French government plans to make the region around Paris a center of
| excellence for open-source software development, the French Minister of the
| Economy, Finance and Industry, Thierry Breton, said Monday.
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http://open.itworld.com/4915/061205franceopen/page_1.html
French National Assembly switches to Linux
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| Linux, OpenOffice and Firefox favoured
|
| [...]
|
| One deputy in favour of the move is Bernard Carayon, commissioned by
| the Prime Minister earlier this year to report on how European
| businesses could play a greater role in developing global industrial
| standards, in order to reduce Europe's economic dependance on other
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| regions.
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http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=7687
Free Ubuntu laptops for French students
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| Five thousand French students now have laptops running
| Ubuntu, thanks to a local government initiative.
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http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/597
http://linuxfr.org/2006/10/16/21479.html
French consumer protectionists are demanding PCs without preinstalled
software
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| The consumer protectionists of the French organization UFC-Que Choisir
| are demanding of the IT group Hewlett-Packard and the vendors Auchan
| and Darty that they offer PCs without preinstalled software.
|
| [...]
|
| UFC-Que Choisir last year also took action against Sony and Apple,
| taking the two companies to court for allegedly putting their
| customers at a disadvantage through proprietary DRM technologies
| and curtailing their choice of devices.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/82605/from/rss09
French consumer group attacks PC software bundling
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| UFC-Que Choisir legal officer Sandra Wouhling said current
| practice effectively forced ordinary consumers to buy computers
| using Microsoft operating systems whereas companies anda
| dministrations were offered a real choice.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20061214:MTFH94365_2006-12-14_14-49-22_L14537403&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/yf7kfu
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