Pierre-Luc Beaudoin

The Gouvernement du Québec sued over renewal of proprietary licences

March 17th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Politics, Technologie

Savoir Faire Linux has decided to go and sue the Gouvernement du Québec about their choice of Microsoft Windows Vista without a proper call for tenders. This is supposedly a first in North America, and I personally hope they do win.

The Gouvernement du Québec is a 100% Microsoft Windows installation as far as we can see. This could be great for the local businesses working in the domain. Switching to Linux could boost our economy by not sending 80 M$ straight away into the US.

Here is the French press release:

RRQ/DA02481 - Requête en jugement déclaratoire à la Cour supérieure du Québec - La longue route du logiciel libre au Québec

Introducing OpenImpro 1.0

March 15th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in , OpenImpro

This is my latest creation: OpenImpro. It is a content management system aimed to be used by improvisation leagues around the world. Since this is a hobby more common among French speaking nations, the web site is in French, but I might translate it in the next months.

This CMS allows a league to have a dynamic web site containing information on the schedule, the teams, the players and most important of all, the performance statistics. Usually, these are computed by someone and we don’t hear much about them: with OpenImpro this can change!

Spread the word!