Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 21, 2007 09:48 PM
Several typos : the website is <a href="http://www.candidats.fr/" title="candidats.fr">http://www.candidats.fr/</a candidats.fr> (not canidats.fr nor candidat.fr)
Bayrou is actually on the soft right-wing side (or "right center", ie. traditionally allied with Sarkozy's UMP), not socialist. So the spectrum of pro-libre parties is not only communists + socialists + far right nationalists, but also a large part of the "moderated" right wing. Actually, everyone but UMP.
The pro-libre Adullact association (Association des Développeurs et des Utilisateurs de Logiciels Libres pour l'Administration et les Collectivités Territoriales) conduced a similar questionnaire in parallel. Here is the link with replies from the "major" candidates (Buffet, Bayrou, Sarkozy, Le Pen and Royal) : <a href="http://www.adullact.org/article.php3?id_article=424" title="adullact.org">http://www.adullact.org/article.php3?id_article=4<nobr>2<wbr></nobr> 4</a adullact.org>
Note that all computers (including desktops & laptops) in french parliament are being switched to Ubuntu Linux. Hopefully this will increase the deputies F/OSS awareness.
On the funny side, you may try this experience: download the candidat's response, and look at the pdf header (ie. with pdfinfo), you'll see tools they actually used to write their replies.
Le Pen, Buffet, Besancenot and Royal used OpenOffice.org. Cool enough. But the more impressive one is Bové, replied with LaTeX (and converted to pdf with ESP Ghostscript) !
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 21, 2007 09:48 PMOn the funny side, you may try this experience: download the candidat's response, and look at the pdf header (ie. with pdfinfo), you'll see tools they actually used to write their replies.
Le Pen, Buffet, Besancenot and Royal used OpenOffice.org. Cool enough. But the more impressive one is Bové, replied with LaTeX (and converted to pdf with ESP Ghostscript) !
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