French Police Ditching Windows for Linux 122
esocid writes "In another European blow to Microsoft the French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest administrations in the world to make the break. The gendarmerie began severing its ties with Microsoft in 2005 when it moved to open source office applications like word processing. It switched to open source Internet browsers in 2006."
How about some donations? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Better headline (Score:0, Insightful)
Do me a favor. Travel through Europe and tell some of your French bashing jokes (outside the UK). Will the people you tell them to laugh with you at your cleverness or look at you in disgust like the bigot you are? Then travel through the US and tell some American bashing jokes. I think you'll find that you will get the same response.
Re:How about some donations? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Free as in "Freedom Fries?" (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Better headline (Score:1, Insightful)
That pretty much sums up Nazi and fascist ideology: the state and its achievements are more important than the individuals.
As you demonstrate: fascist ideology is alive and well today.
Re:Free as in "Freedom Fries?" (Score:2, Insightful)
Anyway, maybe they're switching because it just makes sense financially?
A more interesting question is, what is keeping the US government from switching? Are they more deeply locked-in or are they more willing to throw some money towards a good friend?