(hope my english won't give this a 0 score;) This is true. Since a couple of years Argentina and other latam countries (ie Bolivia) are being pressured to legalize all their software.
But I'm really confused:
1st of all, as an argentinian, ex.gov IT and linux user (LRU #120947) I'm gladly impressed and, of course, I dream some day I'd be able to call my country GNUar:)
But,
By tradition this is a pro-M$ and anti-Un*x country, mostly because in the 80's we had a prohibition to import anything
IT/IS level of knowledge at the universities is (IMHO) bad. Most students only master Winblows and VB.
IT/IS salaries are too low to get people interested in studying how to run Linux properly ($700 a month for a linux admin with a year of experience - at least at Mendoza). Most of them have 2 jobs
In the meantime, I can see 3 advantages: huge gov. savings and legalization, GNU everywhere and a lot of people will have to study GNU tools...
and 2 big troubles: this kind of imposition can generate huge resistances on people used to M$ tools and also big pressures from monopol... tut-tut-tut
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(hope my english won't give this a 0 score ;)
But I'm really confused:This is true. Since a couple of years Argentina and other latam countries (ie Bolivia) are being pressured to legalize all their software.
In the meantime, I can see 3 advantages: huge gov. savings and legalization, GNU everywhere and a lot of people will have to study GNU tools...
and 2 big troubles: this kind of imposition can generate huge resistances on people used to M$ tools and also big pressures from monopol... tut-tut-tut