“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 move completes the gendarmerie’s severance from Microsoft
which began in 2005 when it moved to open sourcing for office
applications such as word processing. It switched to open source
Internet browsers in 2006…”
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