Spain's Extremadura Starts Move To GNU/Linux, Open Source

Posted by Unknown on Monday April 29, 2013 @04:05PM from the better-living-through-free-software dept.

jrepin writes "The government of Spain's autonomous region of Extremadura has begun the switch to open source of it desktop PCs. The government expects the majority of its 40,000 PCs to be migrated this year, the region's CIO Theodomir Cayetano announced on 18 April. Extremadura estimates that the move to open source will help save 30 million euro per year. Extremadura in 2012 completed the inventory of all the software applications and computers used by its civil servants. It also tailored a Linux distribution, Sysgobex, to meet the majority of requirements of government tasks. It has already migrated to open source some 150 PCs at several ministries, including those for Development, Culture and Employment."

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Re:sometimes it takes a crisis by TrollstonButtersbean · 2013-04-29 18:04 · Score: 1, Troll

Look, I was once a GPL diehard. I fell off that bandwagon because I saw that freedom also means "freedom to ignore the needs of the user". You and I would find kinship in the ultimate correctness of free and open source software, I just have seen that the model in place will never get us there. I long pondered the questions before coming to a conclusion though ...