<p>umm, this is like Engrish, but...not</p>
<p>:-/</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:37px;text-indent:-37px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:14px">
<b></b></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:37px;text-indent:-37px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font:12.0px Helvetica">Alberto Barrionuevo <<a href="mailto:abarrio@ffii.org" target="_blank">abarrio@ffii.org</a>></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:34px;text-indent:-34px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font:12.0px Helvetica">4 June 2009 16:34:34 BDT</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:21px;text-indent:-21px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:floss@ffii.org" target="_blank">floss@ffii.org</a>, FFII bxl <<a href="mailto:bxl@ffii.org" target="_blank">bxl@ffii.org</a>></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:50px;text-indent:-50px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><b>President of Spain confirms that Bill Gates named Extremaduran Linux Project as a worldwide success</b></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
[MAXIMUM SPREADING, PLEASE]</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">The president of Spain, Mr. Zapatero, yesterday confirmed publicly that "Bill<span> </span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Gates told me that 'there was a region in Spain that shines as a world leader<span> </span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
because the extension of the new technologies and the open source in it, and<span> </span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">this region is Extremadura".</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px">
<br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><a href="http://devolucion.org/school20" target="_blank">http://devolucion.org/school20</a> [English]</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<a href="http://devolucion.org/educacion20" target="_blank">http://devolucion.org/educacion20</a> [Spanish]</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
All this happens in the middle of a strong battle opened in Spain for the<span> </span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">digitalization of its whole low and medium educational system with 2,6 mio.<span> </span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">mini-laptops, as recently was promised in the Parliament by Mr. Zapatero.</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px">
<br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Microsoft has been hiddenly working since months ago to get all them with<span> </span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
Windows, but of course the strong Spanish open source community rejects to pay<span> </span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Microsoft with the Spaniards' taxes for something that can be easily replaced<span> </span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">for free by open source software as has been demonstrated in many so populated<span> </span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
regions of the country during the last 10 years. And less taking in care the<span> </span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">strong economical crisis that is suffering the country with currently near to<span> </span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">20% of its population unemployed.</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">But the confrontation has moved also to the Government and its party, the PSOE<span> </span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
(social-democrats), because the Ministry of Education, via Ms. Eva Almunia, is<span> </span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">trying to promote the Windows solution, while the party push ideologically for<span> </span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">the open source one as said by its number three: Ms. Leire Pajín.</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px">
<br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">For sure more news will come...<span> </span>;-)</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px">
<br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Saludos from an day after day hotter Spain,</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">--<span> </span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Alberto Barrionuevo</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Ex President FFII</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
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