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[Joinup] Free Software’s Use in Public Sector in Top Three of Votes for ‘Digital Republic’

Submitted by fcouchet on 21 October, 2015 - 09:05
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"France’s citizens are in favour of their public administrations’ use of Free Software".

France should implement this type of software in education, according to the results of a public consultation on France’s Digital Republic bill ("avant-projet de loi pour République numérique"). After twenty days of public debate and voting on proposals, the consultation ended on Sunday. La République numérique - the Digital Republic - drew 147,710 votes, received 8501 proposals and attracted 21,330 participants.

Read the full article on Joinup [3].

Note about the title of the original article : April prefers the expression "Free Software" instead of "Open Source [4]". Read Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software [5] to know more.

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[1] https://www.april.org/en/themes/institutions-0
[2] https://www.april.org/adherer
[3] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/france%E2%80%99s-citizens-vote-favour-open-source
[4] https://www.april.org/en/position-sur-la-terminologie-logiciel-libre-open-source
[5] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html