Venezuela Moves Further Toward Open Source

Posted by michael on Thursday December 30, 2004 @04:32AM from the leading-the-way dept.

baquiano writes "Today the Venezuelan press reports that the government has formally issued a decree (English translation) which prioritizes the use of free/open source software over proprietary systems in government entities. This follows a year of pilot deployments in Venezuela's Info Centros (Internet public access points) and some ministries. (Past attempts, reported by Slashdot, by former Minister of Science and Technology Felipe Perez Marti to push ahead this initiative were allegedly foiled by Microsoft.) The decree calls for plans to actively deploy FOSS during a 24-month period."

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Re:A positive development ...? by Pig+Hogger · 2004-12-30 05:39 · Score: 3, Interesting

If you care to actually read the article, you would notice that Chavez is simply counterbalancing the greater disinformational power of the bourgeois-controlled media in order to avoid further destabilization attempts by the bourgeois who cannot bear to see the State help the poorer people by providing them by better education (the bourgeois are dependent on an ignorant population in order to suck their wealth).
In effect, the Chavez government is providing A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD, something the bourgeois hate because they got ahead because of a playingfield blatantly lopsided in their favour.