France Parliament makes Law to give priority to Free Software

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The French Parliament just wrote into law the first instance of Free Software priority in a public service, by adopting the Bill on Higher Education and Research. April, after extensively contributing to the debate, especially welcomes this vote and congratulates Deputies and Senators for recognising the importance of Free Software in the Public Service for Higher Education, since it alone can ensure equal access to the future public service. April hopes that this first step will be followed by other legislation in favour of Free Software. It also thanks all the persons who mobilised and contacted the Parliament Members.

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I think giving priority to free software like Ubuntu Linux, LibreOffice, and Gimp is a good idea for the french since France, and its students won't be force to buy Microsoft Windows, MS Office, Photoshop, and many other paid software to do stuff which free software can do as well, but for free instead of spending money to buy software which basicly does the same tasks as free software.