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Venezuela Goes Open Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bandwagon-gets-moving dept.

Odinson sent in this news blurb from LinuxToday, reporting that Venezuela has adopted a policy for the use of Open Source software in government wherever possible. Apparently they have practical rather than philosophical motivations: keeping cash in the country and promoting local software development.

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  1. Keeping money local by Aexia · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Has that argument been tried in other states, like California?

    "Why should we send our money to *gasp* Redmond when we can get an equally capable system for substantially less?"

    Of course, you could make the same argument about whatever city Red Hat is in. Maybe it's something only people outside the US can make.