French National Police Switch 37,000 Desktop PCs to Linux

Re:French National Police Switch 37,000 Desktop PCs to Linux by johnchristopher on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @11:12AM (#6476673)

> This gets me thinking about Open Source. I would think that adoption is consistent with the Power to the People ethos in France. How is their Linux adoption as a country compared with the rest of the world?

There is a funny fad of the week in the part of the IT field I am involved in that has old-timer one-finger typing IT guys shouting "Yes but the cost of maintaining linux and training people greatly outweigh those of windows; people don't realize that everybody knows windows but if something goes wrong with linux you have to pay to get help".

The bearded windows guys are scared.

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Re:French National Police Switch 37,000 Desktop PCs to Linux by mathattack on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @12:18PM (#6477117)

Have the bearded heavy iron guys become bearded windows guys?

Is your experience specific to France? I'm interested in if my perceived view of their culture is correct when it comes to software adoption.

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Re:French National Police Switch 37,000 Desktop PCs to Linux by johnchristopher on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @12:35PM (#6477236)

Specific to Belgium and France. Definitely specific to Belgian training staff though. My french on-line acquaintances only speak linux so I only have hear-says from them but they relate the same stories.

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