[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 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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