Mexican Government Chooses Linux

by anarchygeek

Fri, Mar 16, 2001 12:52PM

The Mexican Government has chosen to adopt Linux over Microsoft Windows in a move to save millions in intellectual property charges.

Miguel de Icaza, a Linux hacker and co-ordinator of a project to add user friendly interfaces to Unix, is also partly responsible for persuading the Mexican Government to switch to Linux. The project will save millions of dollars. In France, there was a similar effort to pass a law requiring government software to use provide source code to the public and use free software instead of Microsoft Windows-based software. Microsoft is one of the worst transnational corporations and media conglomerates in the world.

For more information: http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/emexico...

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§who cares?

by anon

Sun, Mar 18, 2001 8:04PM

Who gives a fuck what some government decided to do to save money? It's not like there is anything important going on in Mexico worth talking about.

The Mexican government will be in a nice tux t-shirt next to the ruling class, lying in a ditch!

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§spell it out for you

by anon

Mon, Mar 19, 2001 1:59AM

the relevance is that co-operative, not-for-profit, collective and arguably anarchist processes in the world of software engineering are competing and winning against their corporate counterparts. just like co-operative, not-for-profit, collective and arguably anarchist media, or housing, or whatever could also compete against their corporate counterparts.

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§L.U.V.

by proffr@fuckmicrosoft.com

Thu, Mar 22, 2001 5:23AM

Germany too!Im curious about a post I saw at slashdot,something about scientologists having source code in a part of windows 2000?
luv is linux users group of victoria,free the net,join freenet!

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