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President of Spain confirms it: Bill Gates named Extremadura Linux project
as "a worldwide leader for ITC and open source"
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| Extremadura has been surely the first region in the world to introduce Linux
| massively in the schools. The Linex Project was started in 1999 and now it
| counts with more than 80.000 PCs among its schools with a ratio of 2 students
| per computer. Additionally, Extremadura has widely deployed Linux in more
| government areas, as Health and rural public points for Internet access and
| social digitalization.
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| After Extremadura, Andalusia and Valencia, two of the most populated regions
| of Spain, have developed similar but bigger projects based on open source and
| Linux. In the case of Andalusia, its medium education holds currently the
| biggest Linux network in the world with more than 250.000 computers
| accounting clients and servers, all them administered from a central point in
| Seville, the capital of the region.
|
| [...]
|
| But , of course, as OSOR continues saying the strong open source community of
| Spain is against paying to Microsoft for something that is not needed:
|
| The Spanish free software association, Hispalinux, criticised the laptop
| plan in April, saying for instance that the government should have
| requested a public tender for the laptops. The debate now includes
| dual-boot systems with both GNU/Linux and Microsoft software
| pre-installed, raising questions about the Spanish government paying for
| proprietary software licences it might not use.
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http://devolucion.org/school20
Recent:
Bill Gates, Laptops and Confusion
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| On his visit to Spain, Bill Gates met the Spanish prime minister and didn't
| fail to lobby for Microsoft computers in schools. But lacking knowledge of
| Spanish regions led to some confusion and did not quite bring the attention
| he might have wanted.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/bill_gates_laptops_and_confusion
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/Dar/ordenador/alumno/buena/inversion/asegura/Bill/Gates/elpepusoc/20090526elpepusoc_9/Tes
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