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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Via Wide Aperture, we learn of the Digital Research Tools wiki. While the focus is for academics – the fact is that – apart from footnote style – everything else is has application outside academia.

Part of our mission is to develop/identify a “best practices” tool set for disaster planning – particularly community-based groups. So usability, interoperability, and price are critical variables. the DiRT Wiki is exceptionally well organized, and looks like a good place to look.

Thanks to Encyclopedia Braun for the link.