Reforma.com: Mexico City Government will avoid buying Windows

[ Thanks to Erik
Alvarez for this link. ]

And thanks to LinuxToday reader Alastor for providing the translation of
the first few paragraphs. -mph

“The Technical Coordinator of city administration, Jose
Barberan, said that a new system will be used in the new database
needed for the renovation of license plates that will begin by Q3
this year.”

“Cd de Mexico, Mexico.-(12/marzo/2001). The IT revolution which
seed was sowed by a young Finnish programmer, Linus Torvalds,
arrived at the Distrito Federal Government.”

“The means: using Linux in every area of capital administration,
an open, free operating system created by Torvalds in 1991 and
which is becoming more and more known worldwide.”

“The goal: to save tens of millions of pesos in service payments
for commercial programs ( like Windows ) and use that funds to
promote the programs against poverty and margination that the Chief
of Government, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has started.”

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