France begins IT research centre on innovation and free software

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 12, 2009 11:43 PM EDT
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France's national computer science institute, Inria, says free software is essential to develop digital society. The institute is launching a research centre to focus on this type of software, Cirill (IT Innovation and Research Centre for Free Software). The foundation of Cirill was announced at the Open World Forum in Paris earlier this month. Cirill is to become a reference centre for the research and development of stable and reliable free software.

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