[Liverpool] President of Spain confirms that Bill Gates named Extremaduran Linux Project as a worldwide success

[aidan mcguire]

>
> From: Alberto Barrionuevo <abarrio at ffii.org>
> Date: 4 June 2009 16:34:34 BDT
> To: floss at ffii.org, FFII bxl <bxl at ffii.org>
> Subject: President of Spain confirms that Bill Gates named  
> Extremaduran Linux Project as a worldwide success
>
>
> [MAXIMUM SPREADING, PLEASE]
>
> The president of Spain, Mr. Zapatero, yesterday confirmed publicly  
> that "Bill
> Gates told me that 'there was a region in Spain that shines as a  
> world leader
> because the extension of the new technologies and the open source  
> in it, and
> this region is Extremadura".
>
> http://devolucion.org/school20 [English]
> http://devolucion.org/educacion20 [Spanish]
>
> All this happens in the middle of a strong battle opened in Spain  
> for the
> digitalization of its whole low and medium educational system with  
> 2,6 mio.
> mini-laptops, as recently was promised in the Parliament by Mr.  
> Zapatero.
>
> Microsoft has been hiddenly working since months ago to get all  
> them with
> Windows, but of course the strong Spanish open source community  
> rejects to pay
> Microsoft with the Spaniards' taxes for something that can be  
> easily replaced
> for free by open source software as has been demonstrated in many  
> so populated
> regions of the country during the last 10 years. And less taking in  
> care the
> strong economical crisis that is suffering the country with  
> currently near to
> 20% of its population unemployed.
>
> But the confrontation has moved also to the Government and its  
> party, the PSOE
> (social-democrats), because the Ministry of Education, via Ms. Eva  
> Almunia, is
> trying to promote the Windows solution, while the party push  
> ideologically for
> the open source one as said by its number three: Ms. Leire Pajín.
>
> For sure more news will come...  ;-)
>
> Saludos from an day after day hotter Spain,
> -- 
> Alberto Barrionuevo
> Ex President FFII
> www.ffii.org
> For FFII matters, please, contact to President Benjamin Henrion
>
>
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