Traduction : http://www.april.org/articles/communiques/20061122-assemblee-nationale.txt Contact : Jordan Augé Merci à Bruno Michel et Julien Perrot pour la relecture. -- Free software for Members of Parliament APRIL's reaction following the press release of the French National Assembly [1] who claims that "MP' workstations will be equipped with free software as of the next legislature." Following a study entrusted to ATOS Origin who aimed at drawing up the practices and needs of the MP, the President of the French National Assembly and the Parliamentory Administrators have decided to "provide the workstations made available to the MP of the next legislature with free software: the Linux operating system, the Open Office suite, the Firefox web browser and a free email client." The communicate indicates that "the study has shown that free solutions now offer features fitting the needs of the MP and will permit to make a substential saving despite some set-up fees and formation." "After the DADVSI legislative bug and its disastrous consequences [2], we were delighted that the principle of a public policy promoting interoperability, open standards and free software had been incorporated in a report handed in to the Prime Minister [3]. The equipment of the MP' workstations with free software lends distinction another time to the qualities of this software, allowing the French National Assembly to get a better command on those equipments, without any dependency on a specific company, with a better use of public money." declares Benoît Sibaud, APRIL's president. References : [1] http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/presse/divisionpresse/m01.asp [2] DADVSI : le Parlement, dernier recours (DADVSI: Parliament, last resort) http://www.april.org/articles/communiques/pr-20060628.html [3] Pour une politique publique en faveur du logiciel libre (For a public policy in favour of free software) http://www.april.org/articles/communiques/pr-20061003.html About APRIL APRIL has been acting as a pioneer in Europe since 1996 towards the democratization and diffusion of free/libre software and open standards towards the general public, the professionals and the institutions in the French-speaking world. One of the association's main mission is to inform people about the dangers of information and knowledge locking by private interests. APRIL is the favourite partner to promote and defend free software. For further information, you may want to visit our website: http://www.april.org/, or contact us by email at the following address: contact@april.org. Press contacts Benoît Sibaud, president, bsibaud@april.org +33 6 81 18 11 30 Frédéric Couchet, general delegate, fcouchet@april.org +33 6 60 68 89 31 Christophe Espern, in charge of institutional relations, cespern@april.org +33 6 86 46 45 99