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Slashdot: Free Software Law in Argentina

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 29, 2001

“There’s presently a law being discussed at the Congress in
Argentina, that would make mandatory the use of and migration to
Free Software when possible.”

“Article 1: The National Public Administration, Decentralized
Organizations and corporations where the State is a majoritary
shareholder will only use for their IT systems and equipments free
programs (software).”

“Article 2: “free program (software)”, will be understood as
software with a license of use that guarantees the user, without an
extra fee, the following rights:

  1. Non-restricted use of the program for any purpose
  2. Exhaustive inspection of the internal program operation.
  3. Use of the internal working, and of arbitrary segments of the
    program, to adaptate them to user needs
  4. Production and distribution of copies of the program
  5. Modification of the program, and free distribution of the
    modifications and the resulting new program, under these same
    conditions.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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