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Quebec Open Source Community Goes After Government

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Quebec's open source organization Facil

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According to CBC, the Quebec government spent $25 million on Microsoft products just between February and June of this year. It's spending over $80 million a year just on Vista licenses.

Facil is a non-profit organization, and the only money they are seeking from this suit is enough to pay their legal expenses. All they want is a fair shot at opening up competition. P2Pnet News

"In France, hundreds of thousands of desktops used by civil servants have been migrated. In the Netherlands, the public administration, one of the most modern in the world, has decided to forbid the use of proprietary software in the public sector.

The decision rests in the hands of the Quebec Superior Court. Luckily the judges for that court

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