[LINK] French police deal blow to Microsoft

[Rick Welykochy]

<http://news.smh.com.au/french-police-deal-blow-to-microsoft/20080130-1p2v.html>

    "French police deal 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 move away from licenced products is saving the gendarmerie about
     seven million euros (10.3 million US dollars) a year for all its PCs."


Seems like world's best expenditure practice is to move away from expensive
licenced products and save taxpayers big bucks.

As taxpayers we should demand that the bureaucracies that we pay for
adopt this best practice.


cheers
rickw


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