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Firefox, VLC, Gimp, KeePass, LibreOffice among open source software endorsed by French Government (www.numerama.com)

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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah for that you have to look to Germany, which has largely embraced Matrix, and certain states, such as Schleswig-Holstein, have embraced Linux and LibreOffice:

https://element.io/matrix-in-germany

https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-state-ditches-microsoft-for-linux-and-libreoffice/

[-] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Wasn't France the one that started switching to Matrix and funded a bunch of improvements?

https://web.archive.org/web/20180426180007/https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed-as-the-basis-for-frances-secure-instant-messenger-app/

It's great that Germany is doing the same, I just remember Matrix talking about money from France and helping the French government deploy Matrix for government use back in the day. A lot of the E2E encryption improvements were attributed to their collaboration with France at the time

[-] Jomn@jlai.lu 4 points 10 months ago

Yes and the French administration has access to a modified version of Matrix called Tchap.

[-] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

France is such a bizare country... They enforce E2E encryption and at the same time try to break E2E encryption?

[-] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

I don't think France tried to break E2E yet? Some political groups repeatedly submit law projects through the democratic process, but as long as it doesn't pass I think the best we can say is that France is against.