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