Free software groups protest France school M$ software deal

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Free software groups protest France school M$ software deal

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Cyrille Chausson at JOINUP on February 15, 2016 wrote:
A group of three French associations free software advocacy groups wants to cancel software licence agreement signed between the French Ministry of Education and Microsoft France.

... On 30 November 2015, the Minister of National Education Najat Vallaud Belkacem and Microsoft France signed a EUR 13-million agreement to provide software and services to schools across the country.

"Microsoft is willing to sell at a loss - or even to provide its services free of charge", CNLL says in its statement. "This dumping will brutally force many French and European companies from the market and gives the company the most monopolistic position possible on the French education sector."...
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