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  1. How To Stop Piracy: Raid CD-R Moguls

    News · News · · posted by Hemos · from the get-the-wrong-people dept. · 289 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "In what appears to be a not-so-legal move, Mexico's equivalent of the RIAA used federal police to raid the installations of Grupo Mekong, responsible for 200 of the 400 million virgin CDs imported each year, accusing them to be "capos" of the Piracy bussiness in Mexico. What is the rationale? Record companies buy only 20% of Mekong merchandise, so the other 80% must be going to pirates! Yeah, Never mind computer users ,independent labels or other legal uses. You can see the article here but what amazes me is the behaviour! What will the next step be? Raid the truck companies who deliver the CDs? "

  2. Mexico City Adopting Linux; Software Rent Savings Go to Fight Poverty

    Linux · Linux · · posted by michael · from the a-peso-in-the-hand-is-worth-two-in-the-vendor's dept. · 226 comments
    "Anonymous coward south of the border" sent in this: "Check this article in the mexican online newspaper Reforma (a liitle bit of spanish language knowledge required). It's an interview with the Technical coordinator of the Distrito Federal goverment (Mexico's capital of the country) where they say why choose Linux over MSWindows and make the change of all their systems in a period of 2 years to Linux. All the money saved from the MSWindows licenses will be reallocated to programs for fighting poverty. Sounds good that part of our taxes won't be in Microsoft hands anymore and the Mexican Goverment giving Linux a chance." Maybe someone will post a decent translation - the web-based services make a hash of it. But the interviewee notes that they will save tens of millions of pesos by switching away from rented software.