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Cuba Switching to Linux

Posted by Zonk on from the comrade-tux dept.

Tony Montana writes "According to several news sites the government of Cuba is dumping Windows in favour of Linux. Cuba's director of information technology, Roberto del Puerto, says that Cuba already has approximately 1500 computers running on Linux, and is working towards replacing Windows on all state owned computers."

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  1. Re:And that children by harley_frog · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Mod parent 'Funny', please.

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  2. US Blockade? by Pao|o · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Doesnt the US have a trade embargo with Cuba? So how does MS sell their warez there? What more how can AMD/Intel sell their processors there?

  3. Re:Lets start counting by cyberkreiger · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I saw this a while back:
    http://www.computereconomics.com/article.cfm?id=10 43

    The gist of it is that while free as in beer" is important, vendor independence is even more so.

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