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AP/Taipei Times: Venezuela Promotes Free Software

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“Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has long been critical of big
transnational companies, and now his government is promoting free
open-source software as an alternative to market-dominating
Microsoft Corp.

“Venezuela’s science and technology ministry on Friday began the
Latin American Free Software Installation Fair, an event promoting
the use of the open-source Linux operating system and other
nonproprietary programs over Windows by Microsoft…”


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