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

[Vladimir]

On 04/06/2009, oscillik <oscillik at gmail.com> wrote:
> umm, this is like Engrish, but...not
>
> :-/
>
>
> **
> *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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