Article from SotwareLivre.org (Spanish)

Babelfish translation

"The substitution process will be gradual, beginning with a pilot project in a ministry, and will could last about three years, according to official sources mentioned by the financial newspaper Value, and gathered by EFE agency. The objective of the change of operating system is to save resources in IT spending, and payments for software licenses."


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Note that most of the articles on this site are in Portuguese, but this one, because the source is Hispalinux in Spain, is in Spanish. The article also mentions that this announcement was made at the Free Software Forum
(see earlier article), and that developments will be monitored by governments like Peru, Argentina, and Spain.


The article is also posted on the home page of Hispalinux, but no permanent link is yet available.


www.hispalinux.org homepage (Spanish)