[CS-FSLUG] France eyes la vie en open source

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 19:15, Fred Miller wrote:
> "At stake, in the case of office suite software alone, is around 300 million 
> euros ($362.5 million) worth of software to be introduced to state computers 
> over three years. Savings on operating systems could be of a similar order, 
> officials said."
> 
> http://news.com.com/France+eyes+la+vie+en+open+source/2100-7344_3-5239554.html

I'm a little skeptical on this one. Reading the article gives me the
impression that it is really just jockeying for a cheaper MS tax by
using a little bit of FOSS. Anyone have another article with more
details?

JSR/