Jump Ahead Three Years from Now

Jump Ahead Three Years from Now

We read in lwn that having won concessions from M$ in 2004. The government of France is now considering full conversion to the time tested, stable, fully functional and adaptable Linux. Now that the year is 2007 and OpenOffice 3.1 is in it's third beta and capable of doing everything M$ Office can do and so much more including handling all XML variants and WinFS. Mickeysoft's core breadwinner MS Office has been completely marginalized. Latest press releases from France indicate dissention within the government because it would have been far less expensive to have performed the conversion in 2004 and taken a leadership role in forming the non-Microsoft standards. France is in the unusual position of having to play catch-up will all their Asian trading partners whom have been using Linux for years. One government official was quoted as having stated that maybe if we make the move to Linux this year instead of waiting until the next budget we can gain ground on Germany who more formally adopted Linux and has achieved a huge technology leap because they did not wait for better a deal from Microsoft and took their fate into their own hands.

You see folks, everybody that reads lwn will pretty much draw the same conclusion. It's not a matter of "if" it's a matter of "when". You can either help create the future or take the leavings from Microsoft. I can't make it any plainer than that.