Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Cuba's Move Toward Freedom, as in Software
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> | In May 2005, the head of the Office for Computerizing Cuban Society, Roberto
> | del Puerto, announced that the government was preparing for its central
> | administration offices to switch to the free GNU/Linux system, which uses the
> | Linux kernel written by Linus Torvalds of Finland in 1991. A national group
> | was formed for this purpose.
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> http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59545.html
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> Related:
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> Cuba embraces migration to free and open source software
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> | Cuba's Cabinet also has urged a shift from proprietary software. The customs
> | service has gone to Linux and the ministries of culture, higher education and
> | communications are planning to do so, Rodriguez said.
> |
> | And students in his own department are cooking up a version of Linux called
> | Nova, based on Gentoo distribution of the operating system. The ministry of
> | higher education is developing its own.
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> http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2007/08/02/4878/cuba_embraces_open_source_software.html
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> Cuba Embraces Open-Source Software
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> | Both governments say they are trying to wean state agencies from
> | Microsoft's proprietary Windows to the open-source Linux operating
> | system, which is developed by a global community of programmers
> | who freely share their code.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Other countries have tried similar moves. China, Brazil and
> | Norway have encouraged the development of Linux for a variety
> | of reasons: Microsoft's near-monopoly over operating systems,
> | the high cost of proprietary software and security problems.
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> http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CUBA_SOFTWARE?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
> http://tinyurl.com/29dejf
The simple fact that all NSA, CIA, DIA work on cracking back door entry,
installing remote keylogging, and embedding surreptitious entry ways was
performed on Microsoft products, up until the NSA's "SE Linux"
application, would surely be cause for any government to switch to
something in which at least they can view the source code!
Weeks ago, it was revealed that WGA has ultimate control over your M$
box. Last week, it was revealed that after a re-install from CD, the
M$ system blocks the most important of the latest updates, numbering
about 80 updates!
Revelations abound. Glad I switched to GNU/Linux in 1997!
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