French army sides with Mozilla in Microsoft email war (Reuters) – via Open Source Pixels.

Reuters takes a look at the use of Thunderbird by the French military. “The military found Mozilla’s open source design permitted France to build security extensions, while Microsoft’s secret, proprietary software allowed no tinkering. “We started with a military project, but quickly generalized it,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Frederic Suel of the Ministry of Defense and one of those in charge of the project.”

Reuters article here.

Does anyone know how much the United States government spends, let’s say, on Microsoft Outlook licenses per year? We’ll try to find out.

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