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February 19, 2007 4:00 PM PST
Cuba to migrate to open-source software
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Several Cuban government ministers backed the move at a technology conference held late last week. Communications minister Ramiro Valdes gave a opening keynote that advocated open source, while Richard Stallman, head of the Free Software Foundation, also told the conference that proprietary software is inherently insecure.
A Cuban academic, Hector Rodriguez, is supporting the migration to open source by heading up a development program within one of the largest Cuban universities. Cuba's customs service has already migrated to Linux, while the ministries of culture, higher education and communications are planning to do so, Rodriguez told the conference.
But Rodriguez, quoted by the Associated Press, declined to say how long it would take for the Cuban government to migrate most of its systems to Linux. "It would be tough for me to say that we would migrate half the public administration in three years," he told the conference.
The number of Cuban open-source users is growing fast, with around 3,000 in a country that struggles with outdated PCs and slow Internet links.
Other governments, including Venezuela, China, Brazil and Norway, are evaluating a partial or total migration from Windows to open source. Many city administrations are also running projects. In Europe, programs in Bristol, England, as well as Amsterdam and Munich, are well underway.
Richard Thurston of ZDNet UK reported from London.
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(Bank of Brazil) that has been using OS/2 for so long now finding itself in the mix-up must be loosing its "inventive genius". As to why this is so, BRAZIL was one of the founders of the INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK ( www.iadb.org ) and the hope was that some smart Brazilian Programmers would have delivered (created a niche) on the DESKTOP where LINUX and WINDOWS have failed to deliver after all of these years.
Economic Rate of Return (ERR) you say!
some homosexuals being "reeducated," while he was there> How
great that he is gung-ho for the oppressive regime to have all the
glorious benefits of open-source software, which is so much cooler
than mere freedom.
I think they'd have a different, perhaps more real perception of those comrades (killers).
Count me out of your crowd, RMS.
Cuba's government
- Open-source in Cuba...hhahahahahaaha
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by Schratboy
February 21, 2007 7:37 AM PST
- There aren't any trains to keep on schedule. There isn't any electricity. Computer? What's a computer. The only PCs in country likely oversee the bank accounts of Old Man Castro and the cigar manufacturers. Everything else is run by small children running on wooden treadmills. Internet connectivity is a twine string running between the Morales and Juno shacks.
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