First of all this new bill needs to be made official by announcing on the official goverment newspaper by the president. We have put a better translation of the bill on APESOL website.
We'd like to remark that even this is not a free software specific bill, It was based on all the previous proposals made on the subject.
I and many of us believe that its a important step towards making free software a truly and goverment supported alternative, since it also remarks, and will be regulated after making the official announce, through its own reglament, the benefit of free software when choosing alternatives for projects, avoid work duplication and saves money.
Although for most goverment agencies free software it something already being deployed and used on many of them now, for instance the army is just moving their computing infrastructure to free software, training their personel and so.
i don't know if it's a innocents week (days) but it's funny to hear microso~1 saying "don't trust our software and either our company" that's what i'd like to expect from my supplier XD
hahaha i couldn't help XD
pd: what about making a 100 things that you shouln't expect to hear from microso~1?
i can confirm this information, since i and some other people are involved on activists activities to promote this bill:)
on the response have collaborate many activist people around the world, some of them are RMS, Miguel de Icaza (about the mexican experience), Via Libre (argentina), grulic, and so many others.
Since that response M$ haven't said anything (in public audience i mean) after the public announce of the law project they asked him (Mr. Villanueva) to have a meeting, they were talking about the same things that they say on his document, and later they sent the document to the congressman.
Also, a group of "software" (which in fact are just M$ products users) have showed it's concern about the project, but they got a very good response, as u can expect;)
The last new is that M$ is scaling this, i mean going to complain up on the gov., but we hope to fight this;)
In the congress, was a meeting of congressmen which have expressed it's will to make this happen (approve the law), now we have two projects on the road, so the things are going quite fine until now
Since the first initiative from Congressman Villanueva and with the support of the users community there had been a forum, you can check it here, and activism activities like this (which was very funny btw;) Now we have another initiative, this time another congressman have joined Mr. Villanueva and there's a new version of the law project (which is better than the first one) also there's another initiative from another congress man, which points on the same target.
So things are going good by now, we'll keep u notified how it goes;)
Is expected to create an institution which should choice and suggest the recommended software for use in any case that gov. may have, as u say here databases.
for specific software as air traffic control or millitary systems, not all of 'em are controlled totally by the gov. as an example the airport management on capital city actually is ruled by a German corp., so in this cases the law doesn't apply, the main target are educational institutions, public services owned by state and so others.
But if they will be required the law tells what are the conditions for new developments.
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We'd like to remark that even this is not a free software specific bill, It was based on all the previous proposals made on the subject.
I and many of us believe that its a important step towards making free software a truly and goverment supported alternative, since it also remarks, and will be regulated after making the official announce, through its own reglament, the benefit of free software when choosing alternatives for projects, avoid work duplication and saves money. Although for most goverment agencies free software it something already being deployed and used on many of them now, for instance the army is just moving their computing infrastructure to free software, training their personel and so.
i don't know if it's a innocents week (days) but it's funny to hear microso~1 saying "don't trust our software and either our company"
that's what i'd like to expect from my supplier XD
hahaha
i couldn't help XD
pd: what about making a 100 things that you shouln't expect to hear from microso~1?
u can check it at here
regards
i can confirm this information, since i and some other people are involved on activists activities to promote this bill :)
;)
on the response have collaborate many activist people around the world, some of them are RMS, Miguel de Icaza (about the mexican experience), Via Libre (argentina), grulic, and so many others.
btw: i know who is the guy u've talked to
of course there are PGP users ;) :)
write an email to linux-actvismo AT kernel-panik DOT org and u'll get very good response
Since that response M$ haven't said anything (in public audience i mean)
;)
;)
after the public announce of the law project they asked him (Mr. Villanueva) to have a meeting, they were talking about the same things that they say on his document, and later they sent the document to the congressman.
Also, a group of "software" (which in fact are just M$ products users) have showed it's concern about the project, but they got a very good response, as u can expect
The last new is that M$ is scaling this, i mean going to complain up on the gov., but we hope to fight this
In the congress, was a meeting of congressmen which have expressed it's will to make this happen (approve the law), now we have two projects on the road, so the things are going quite fine until now
Since the first initiative from Congressman Villanueva and with the support of the users community there had been a forum, you can check it here, and activism activities like this (which was very funny btw ;) Now we have another initiative, this time another congressman have joined Mr. Villanueva and there's a new version of the law project (which is better than the first one) also there's another initiative from another congress man, which points on the same target.
;)
So things are going good by now, we'll keep u notified how it goes
XDDDD bout time!! ;)
Is expected to create an institution which should choice and suggest the recommended software for use in any case that gov. may have, as u say here databases.
for specific software as air traffic control or millitary systems, not all of 'em are controlled totally by the gov. as an example the airport management on capital city actually is ruled by a German corp., so in this cases the law doesn't apply, the main target are educational institutions, public services owned by state and so others.
But if they will be required the law tells what are the conditions for new developments.