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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Open source and oil by Lord+Satri · 2004-12-30 04:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Great to hear :-)
Concerning Venezuela's ability make their own choices, The Economist has an interesting article today about Venezuela having forged new major oil contracts with China (I admit it has no immediate relation with open source, but hey, it -is- two great news for their ability to be free :-).

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id =3521240

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