Free software for all in Caracas

Posted by tadelste on Mar 25, 2006 8:17 PM EDT
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Caracas is host to the II Latin American Festival of Free Installation Software this weekend, an initiative supported by the Chávez government and designed to promote the use of alternative operating systems.

The Ministry of Science and Technology indicated that the Festival, which is taking place simultaneously in a dozen other countries in the region, is introducing Venezuelans to the advantages of free software, whose use is said to disrupt the exclusivity of “owner software” and the monopolies of multinational companies such as Mi-crosoft.

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