Software France bets on open source for economic growth Peter Sayer @itworldca Published: December 5th, 2006The French government plans to make the region around Paris a centre of excellence for open-source software development, the French Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry, Thierry Breton, said Monday.The goal of the centre of excellence is to develop a healthy and profitable open-source software industry.Breton, previously head of France T Software software industry