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Venezuelanalysis: Chavez Announces that Venezuelan State Will Switch to “Free Software”

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 30, 2004

[ Thanks to Jose Luis
Rey
for this link. ]

“President Chavez announced yesterday that ‘we are working on a
decree to establish in Venezuela, in an official and obligatory
manner, the support and adoption of free software in the public
administration.’

“Chavez made this announcement during an event at which he
opened numerous ‘info centers,’ public internet access points,
throughout the country…”

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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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