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[LUG] Re: Venezuela Promotes Microsoft Alternative

 

Your title gave me a bit of a shock

On 4/8/06, M.Blackmore <mblackmore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Venezuela Promotes Microsoft Alternative
>
> by Jorge Rueda
> Associated Press
> Caracas, Venezuela
> Thursday, March 30, 2006
> http://business.bostonherald.com/technologyNews/view.bg?
> articleid=132899
>
> In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is
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> purposes.
>
> President Hugo Chavez, long critical of big transnational companies, is
> promoting free open-source software as an alternative to market-
> dominating Microsoft Corp.
>
> Venezuela's science and technology ministry recently held the Latin
> American Free Software Installation Fair, an event promoting the use of
> the open-source Linux operating system and other nonproprietary programs
> over Microsoft's Windows.
>
> Groups of Linux users have been organizing similar events in other Latin
> American countries, including Argentina and Colombia, and the Venezuelan
> government has signed on as a promoter.
>
> The technology ministry said the fair is part Venezuela's move toward
> "technological sovereignty, and taking advantage of knowledge for
> building national scientific independence."
>
> Chavez, a vehement critic of the capitalist system, issued a decree in
> 2004 ordering all the country's public institutions to actively move
> toward open-source alternatives, hoping to save millions of dollars.
>
> Government agencies have gradually been making the change.
>
> Chavez says previous governments spent more on licensing fees for
> proprietary software than social programs to fight poverty.
>
> The Venezuelan government hasn't focused direct criticism on Microsoft,
> but Chavez has regularly condemned "the hegemony of the multinationals"
> - saying many big companies are to blame for putting profits above the
> needs of poor people across Latin America.
>
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