“Moving to Open Source software has been contemplated for some time in more than one South American country, with Peruvian Congressman Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez having written a widely celebrated Open Letter to Microsoft in which he politely but thoroughly demolishes a veritable raft of Microsoft FUD-mongering, carefully point by point.
Announced last Wednesday, this new Venezuelan government policy was approved by a majority of the country’s Executive Committee. It was characterized in a statement by Dr. Felipe Pérez-MartÃ, Planning and Development Minister, as “Open source whenever possible, proprietary software only when necessary.”
Link: The Inquirer
Category:
- Open Source
