[ANSOL-geral]Extremadura Measures: Linux

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

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http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,51994,00.html

Governments in developing regions worldwide have eagerly embraced the
open-source movement as a way to trim fat from their budgets. But free
software initiatives fail when officials believe they will no longer
have to invest in their IT systems. Take the case of Mexico's Red
Escolar , launched in 1998 to install Linux in the country's 126,000
public schools. The government simply shipped CDs to schools without
training teachers how to use the operating system or contracting
programmers to administer it.

That won't happen in Extremadura, Vazquez de Miguel said.

"The decision to incorporate (Linux) is not an isolated decision, nor is
it limited to handing out software," the minister said, adding that
training Extremadura's 15,000 teachers to use the system and to
incorporate the computers in the classroom has been a government
priority.=20


Lindo!

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+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi
+ So let's do it...?

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