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Some European Moves Towards Linux 181

Readers VE3OGG and FFFFHALTFFFF write in with three pieces of a global picture that is emerging of governments and corporations moving away from Microsoft and towards open source. First, France: the French automaker Peugot Citroen has announced that over the next several years they will be integrating up to 20,000 Novell SUSE desktops as well as 2,500 SUSE servers into their facilities. (Let's hope that, in Novell, Peugeot Citroen hasn't bought a lemon.) Next, Sweden: the Swedish Armed Forces has made a decision to migrate its Windows NT servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Finally, Russia. VE3OGG writes: "It would seem that after the recent Russian piracy debacle that could see a school headmaster jailed in a Siberian work camp for purchasing pirated copies of Windows for his school, the Ministry of Education in Russia has decided that the school boards will no longer be purchasing any commercial software."

Comment Re:Saddens him most? (Score 1) 181

when I read the post above yours, I also thought about the "intent" as you call it, that there are at least military targets in one of the scenarios... But you're post is still too naive, yes there is that level... But perhaps the reason they suicide bomb civilians is not that they are crazed and pure evil, but that they can't do military strikes against Israeli leaders like Israel does to them, mostly because they haven't been funded tons of military money like Israel has from the U.S... There are layers upon layers for everything.

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