How Linux Helped 5 Poverty-Stricken Governments
Oct 15, 2008, 14:33 (3 Talkback[s])
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"Also, Extremadura is one of the poorest regions in the EU, and
the cost of proprietary software needed to run the network was just
too much to bear. So the government decided to use free software;
in the beginning due to its low cost, but soon they realized that
free software is a powerful tool to provide “technological
independence” and avoid reliance on global conglomerates and
monopolies."
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