Slashdot Mirror
Venezuela Moves Further Toward Open Source
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."
In the exact same sense where Saddam was ruling in a democracy...
Tell me, what's a democracy but a name when people cannot exercise their rights?
when there is no freedom of speech, thought, or travel?
It's almost a dictatorship under the veil of another name to not scare off investors and not draw the world's attention to it.
will work for Karma
Why are so many people unable to read ANYTHING that's not pro-Fidel and anti-Bush without starting with the same old "Bush is bad, US is bad, everything against US is good" bullshit?
Why don't such people just go and read something USEFUL about the situation there before saying that stupid "Mooreish" things about how Chaves is a good president and how he's just being good to the proletarians?
Remember, many journalists spent years trying to convince the world that URSS was wonderful, incredible, peaceful, some used to lie a lot (the problem is, fanatic leftists tend to believe in every single lie they're told, if Chomsky told them shit tastes like chocolate, they would believe so) . Those are the ones saying the same things about Cuba and Venezuela now.
Now, a typical response to my post:
"you burgoise motherfucker, stop saying URSS wasn't a paradise, it was, but Bush ruined it! I know, I just watched that Moore 'documentary'! I heard it's completely fake, but hey, that does not change the truth! And I read that Chomsky book, it's full of accusations, and absolutely no references of any kind, he even accuses his dog and hist cat of being CIA agents, but I know he's telling me the truth too!"