Paris Accelerates Move to Open Source 225
* * Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us that the city of Paris is moving to open-source software a little faster than originally intended. As a part of the strategy to 'reduce its dependence on suppliers' they anticipate replacing both server and desktop applications with free and open-source software. From the article: "Earlier this year, volunteers among the city's 46,000 staff were invited to download and install open-source software to their desktops, including the Firefox browser and the Open Office.org productivity suite. Now, the city is planning to migrate all the users of one city department or all of those in one of the city's 20 districts, not just the volunteers, to test a larger migration. The city has 17,000 workstations, up from 12,000 in 2001"
Nothing new... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, wait...
Good for her (Score:5, Funny)
hmm (Score:5, Funny)
by distributing 100 dollar laptops with Red Hat Linux to every rioting teen
[grin] (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, and I spit in your general direction!
Simon
Actually they had to switch because (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft HQ is not happy... (Score:1, Funny)
Good news! (Score:3, Funny)
Poor kiddies (Score:5, Funny)
From the article: The city is also responsible for IT matters in its primary and middle schools. There, it has installed Open Office on 2,150 computers, and plans to bring the total to 3,500 by the end of March, it said. French high schools are run directly by central government.
B-b-b-but those poor kids won't learn how to use Microsoft Windows! How will they ever succeed in the real world?!
(This is sarcasm, folks, regarding a commonly-cited reason for American school systems to standardize on Microsoft Windows.)
If Paris is moving toward open source.... (Score:1, Funny)
The reason (Score:5, Funny)
Wait for it...
Wait...
It runs faster.
Now when you support open source... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nothing new... (Score:5, Funny)
I think you're confusing the licensing. Paris may be exposed, but you can't modify her.
Basically, she's under a "shared" source license.
Re:[grin] (Score:2, Funny)
Just a small correction: you mean I fart in your general direction .
And also...
Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yer?
See the løveli lakes
The wonderful telephøne system
And mani interesting furry animals
France, sinking into anarchy (Score:2, Funny)
Then, a bunch of punk ass kids get away with acting out violent Grand Theft Auto scenes.
If that weren't enough, they made the gov't admit systemic racism to boot.
Now they're all going open source? What the $!@# is goin' on? I guess you can really have your cake and eat it too!
I'd pack up, move to Paris and join all that debauchery if I weren't scared piss of the US gearin' up for Operation Liberate France! Them nuke-totin' anarchists will not be allowed to get away with all this terrorism.
Re:Nothing new... (Score:3, Funny)
Nah, everyone knows that proprietary systems get 'rooted' more often than open source.
Misreading (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Freedom Fries were appropriately named. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Freedom Fries were appropriately named. (Score:4, Funny)
yeah Damn that Anonymous Coward, such a blatent karma whore there is hardly a single discussion where he hasn't got at least 5 or 6 +5 modded comments.
Re:Hui! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nothing new... (Score:3, Funny)
But her plastic surgeon modifies her all the time...
Re:[grin] (Score:2, Funny)