____/ Ramon F Herrera on Tuesday 20 November 2007 18:28 : \____
>
> - The measure only applies to government purchases at all levels as
> in practice there is no separation of federal, state and city (nor
> executive, legislative and judicial, for that matter) governments.
>
> - 65% of servers have been migrated to OSS, only 6% of users trained.
>
> - Hardware (FLOSH?) is also covered by the policy.
>
> Here's the link (in Spanish):
>
>
http://www.eluniversal.com/2007/11/20/eco_art_ejecutivo-suspende-t_603964.shtml
>
> There is a short English section, but I couldn't find the article
> there:
>
> http://english.eluniversal.com/
>
> Just in case anyone out takes this as an endorsement to the current
> illegitimate regime, let me just state for the record that I pretty
> much support Pat Robertson's idea.
>
> -Ramon
I remember all these photos of Venezuela's switch of government computers to
Ubuntu Linux. Here are some articles I've collected, in case someone might
find them useful.
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 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
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
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