Venezuela and the Hackers’ Revolution
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| The Third International Forum on Free Knowledge was recently held in
| Maracaibo, Venezuela, bringing together many people interested in the
| development of free software worldwide. One reason Venezuela chose to host
| this event is that, in January 2006, their new free software law came into
| effect, which mandates that all government agencies migrate to free software
| over a two-year period.
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| [...]
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| The Venezuelan revolution is perhaps the first revolution in history saved by
| computer hackers and is one of the reasons the government is so very strong
| on promoting the use of free software, particularly in public administration.
| The Venezuelan government wishes never again to have vital infrastructure
| held hostage or sabotaged by agents of foreign nations.
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http://www.dailyradical.org/knowledge/Venezuela_and_the_Hackers_Revolution
Yesterday:
Ecuador migrates to Free Software and Open Standards
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| On April 10, 2008, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa Delgado signed a decree
| ordering that the software used by public administrations in the country be
| free software (and implicitly based on open standards). Fuller story in
| Spanish...
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http://www.digistan.org/forum/t-52909/ecuador-migrates-to-free-software-and-open-standards
Related:
Venezuela Launches Sale of "Bolivarian" Computers
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| The new computers will run the open-source Linux operating system
| and will first be used inside the government "missions" and state
| companies and institutions but eventually are expected to be sold
| across Venezuela and Latin America.
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http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2326
Ubuntu takes advantage
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| Well, I'm very proud to announce that another Venezuelan institution
| of the government, take our recommendation and then we deploy more of
| 700 HP PCs with Ubuntu and 150 IBM Laptops with Kubuntu.
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http://blog.blanco.net.ve/2007/03/ubuntu-takes-advantage.html
Venezuela - Stepping Forward With Debian
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| One of the shining examples has been the Venezuelan Patent
| Office, or Servicio Autonomo de Propiedad Intelectual(SAPI).
| In a country that does not recognise software patents, nor
| biological patents, the Debian Linux distribution has been
| used as the foundation stone for the system that will store
| information about both Venezuelan and Cuban patents and can
| store up to 9.5TB of data.
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http://www.localfoss.org/Venezuelan_FOSS_1
No rush for open source technology
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| Brazil, China, Norway and Venezuela have all recently changed to
| open source too, but mostly because of cost saving, not espionage.
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| [...]
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| The truth is you don't really own proprietary software, you just rent
| it. You can actually buy open source solutions, and they are yours to
| do with as you wish.
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http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/birminghampost/business/tm_headline=no-rush-for-open-source-technology&method=full&objectid=18683873&siteid=50002-name_page.html
http://tinyurl.com/26o5t6
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