Re: μελέτες για ελεύθερο λογισμικό

[ndemou at gmail.com]

On 1/31/08, George Notaras <gnot at g-loaded.eu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:42 +0200, Γιώργος Κυλάφας wrote:
>
> > "Cases of official recognition/adoption of F/OSS"
> > http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/opensource/cases/index_en.htm
> [...]
> Πολύ καλό link. Κατά την άποψή μου, αυτό αξίζει όσο χίλιες διαμαρτυρίες
> έξω από το Μέγαρο Μουσικής.


απο τα παραπάνω λείπει το παρακάτω πολύ φρέσκο νέο (ελαφρά
παραποιημένη διατύπωση από νέα του Agence France Presse[1])

"""
In 2005 the French paramilitary police force (AKA Gendarmerie,
approximates the U.S.'s FBI)  moved from Microsoft Office to
OpenOffice. A year later it abandoned Mircosoft's Internet Explorer
for the Mozilla Foundation's browser Firefox and its email client
Thunderbird. This Wednesday it said 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 is
currently using Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. But they will
progressively change over to Ubuntu Linux.

The gendarmerie with its 100,000 employees and 70,000 desktops is the
biggest administration to shift to open source for its operating
system, but it is not the first in France. The National Assembly
adopted Ubuntu for its 1,200 PCs in 2007.

There are three reasons behind the move, Geraud said at the Solution
Linux 2008 conference here. The first is to diversify suppliers and
reduce the force's reliance on one company, the second is to give the
gendarmerie mastery of the operating system and the third is cost

[...]

Dell this week started offering Ubuntu Linux 7.10 on its XPS 1330
laptops in France, Germany, Spain and Britain, while US customers will
be able to order the machines within the next week or so, according to
the company's website.
"""



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[1] http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w