Andalucia is Spains largest region with 7.5 million inhabitants
Andalucia is not the largest region in spain. It is Castilla-León, with 94.193 km2 (Andalucía is 87.268 km2). And not the one with the gratest population density. Madrid, Cataluña, Valencia, Aragón, país Vasco, have a greater density.
It is, although, the region with the gratest population.
so one place no ones ever heard of adopts Linux as their OS of choice today and Slashdot posts about it?
See, Andalucía is the place where many English, German and North-American tourists go on holydays. Spanish sun and beaches and folk. If you mentioned Extremadura, ok, it's not well known... but Andalicía is very well known to tourists that have heard from Spain...
Andalucia is a part of Spain. As in Spain/Europe. Its one of the few countries, [...] that sides with your glorious President.
Ahem... Let's make a little thing clear. The spanish goverment is with all this ""fight for oil, er, freedom"". The spanish people is not.
I find it very disheartening than so many people I know have never heard of GNU-Linux/Free Software and never seen a non-Microsoft operating system on a personal computer.
It gets worse when you are studying a 5-year-long university grade, and watch out (somewhat amazed) how people with the diploma just don't know how to install anything that is not windows-based.
Uninformation is a great weapon. Let's hope these projects have the expected impact (I'll be happy if a boy runs into his house and says "Hey, mom, I did word-processing with a program we can have at home for 0.30 ? - why did you have to spend 300? to do the same?"
They'll be training kids on secondary school, I suppose (that's how LinEx works). And the cost of training a 15-year-old boy or girl to use Gnome, Abiword and Kspread isn't very different to the cost of training a 15-year-old boy or girl to use windows, word and excel.
Just train a couple of teachers on the subject, write some good documentation, and you're gone. I don't think that that teacher-training would be any cheaper using windows&office, anyway.
'cause it means installing hundreds of computers at every secondary school. (At least, that's the way the HispaLinux folks did it Extremadura). And when you save literally hundreds of thousands of bucks, it's indeed a deal.
Add that to the independence from a software company.
Add that to the fact that you can develop your own software to improve the well-being of your country. (As the opposite to "let's buy software from USA and let's give 'em all our money). It employees your own people, and keeps money in the same country.
Now, has a "two-bit no-name region" (with big incomes from tourists from USA, BTW) a reason??
In Extremadura, where the idea (and the folks that promote it) come from, the term "use Open Source Software" means "let's give a PC per every 2 boys in every class in every school, and let them throw away their papers".
And, believe me, that creates a market. AFAIK, Oki (one big printers maker) has released some linux drivers targeted only at Extremadura.
It may seem a small step, but in Extremadura it has meant lots of things. I only hope that it will have similar effect in Andalucía.
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Andalucia is Spains largest region with 7.5 million inhabitants
Andalucia is not the largest region in spain. It is Castilla-León, with 94.193 km2 (Andalucía is 87.268 km2). And not the one with the gratest population density. Madrid, Cataluña, Valencia, Aragón, país Vasco, have a greater density.
It is, although, the region with the gratest population.
so one place no ones ever heard of adopts Linux as their OS of choice today and Slashdot posts about it?
See, Andalucía is the place where many English, German and North-American tourists go on holydays. Spanish sun and beaches and folk. If you mentioned Extremadura, ok, it's not well known... but Andalicía is very well known to tourists that have heard from Spain...
Andalucia is a part of Spain. As in Spain/Europe. Its one of the few countries, [...] that sides with your glorious President.
Ahem... Let's make a little thing clear. The spanish goverment is with all this ""fight for oil, er, freedom"". The spanish people is not.
I find it very disheartening than so many people I know have never heard of GNU-Linux/Free Software and never seen a non-Microsoft operating system on a personal computer.
It gets worse when you are studying a 5-year-long university grade, and watch out (somewhat amazed) how people with the diploma just don't know how to install anything that is not windows-based.
Uninformation is a great weapon. Let's hope these projects have the expected impact (I'll be happy if a boy runs into his house and says "Hey, mom, I did word-processing with a program we can have at home for 0.30 ? - why did you have to spend 300? to do the same?"
They'll be training kids on secondary school, I suppose (that's how LinEx works). And the cost of training a 15-year-old boy or girl to use Gnome, Abiword and Kspread isn't very different to the cost of training a 15-year-old boy or girl to use windows, word and excel.
Just train a couple of teachers on the subject, write some good documentation, and you're gone. I don't think that that teacher-training would be any cheaper using windows&office, anyway.
'cause it means installing hundreds of computers at every secondary school. (At least, that's the way the HispaLinux folks did it Extremadura). And when you save literally hundreds of thousands of bucks, it's indeed a deal.
Add that to the independence from a software company.
Add that to the fact that you can develop your own software to improve the well-being of your country. (As the opposite to "let's buy software from USA and let's give 'em all our money). It employees your own people, and keeps money in the same country.
Now, has a "two-bit no-name region" (with big incomes from tourists from USA, BTW) a reason??
In Extremadura, where the idea (and the folks that promote it) come from, the term "use Open Source Software" means "let's give a PC per every 2 boys in every class in every school, and let them throw away their papers".
And, believe me, that creates a market. AFAIK, Oki (one big printers maker) has released some linux drivers targeted only at Extremadura.
It may seem a small step, but in Extremadura it has meant lots of things. I only hope that it will have similar effect in Andalucía.