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

[Vladimir]

On 05/06/2009, Vladimir <vladimir.jakubovskij at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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