Title: French army sides with Mozilla in Microsoft email war
Authors: Marie Mawad and David Lawsky
Publisher: Reuters
Date (published): 09/12/2009
Date (accessed): 12/12/2009
Type of information: article
Language: English
On-line access: yes (HTML)
Abstract:
A new email client unveiled by Mozilla this week contains code from an unusual source -- the French military, which decided the open source product was more secure than Microsoft's rival Outlook.

The story of how the French government became involved with the open source movement, which has transformed much software around the world from proprietary to free, goes back six years.