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The gradual implementation of free software in Bolivia is a reality, after passing obstacles promoted by Microsoft signature, including instances of the government itself, when officials of the Vice Ministry of Telecommunications they tried sabotage this project.
These statements were made by the Vice President of the Senate and promoter of regulation of free software in Bolivia, Nelida Sifuentes, in an interview with Xinhua, adding that since the adoption of the decree several institutions state are beginning to migrate free software.
The lawmaker of the ruling party said it is complying with the provisions of Article 103 of the Constitution, which determines that the state will assume a policy of implementing strategies to incorporate knowledge and application of new information and communication technologies.
“I’m working for three years in free software commissioned by Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, first with the decree of the General Telecommunications Law, This is an issue of great importance for the country because it is already beginning to run on many public entities, “he said.
revealed that in this work discovered that there were many interests that sought to favor the monopoly of Microsoft . He reported that representatives of the Microsoft they proposed travel to the United States, “they tried to buy these trips, but I did not let”.
According to Assemblyman gobiernista MAS officials manipulated the Telecommunications Act to subtract surreptitiously importance to the issue of free software and dedicated themselves to impede the development of the regulatory decree on this subject.
He recalled that the decree had developed in 180 days, but did not even two years because ” was systematically sabotaged by interest groups that were being promoted by Microsoft “.
As a matter of Sifuentes senator, the part” hard “is over and defined from the Chair and Vice face technological sovereignty as State policy.
For his part, computer expert, Hardy Beltran, told Xinhua that the implementation of these programs is gaining ground in Bolivia, however, that continues the power of Microsoft, even pirated programs.
He acknowledged that there are “powerful” must circumvent obstacles to the large multinationals such as Microsoft that seeks to maintain its hegemonic presence in the world.
Beltran hopes that soon the Act applies Telecommunication and that all systems of the Bolivian state migrate to free software.
In this way, the country “will own the technology we use and have the potential to generate a technological industry and mobile systems thinking smart or satellite software developed from Bolivia for everyone “.
BENEFITS OF INDEPENDENCE
Bolivia spends at least $ 7 million a year in buying proprietary software licenses, which are covered under software licenses which reserve some or all rights to use, copy, modify and distribute to the manufacturer, who on payment of a royalty granted the use of an executable copy of the program.
The director of the Agency for the Development of Information Society in Bolivia, Nicholas Laguna, stressed that this amount is probably less than you invested before the government of Evo Morales, when the country was subjected to rely on license fees.
According to the expert, free software in Bolivia has a significant impact since 2006, because before that year, the State was worried how he would pay for licenses to Microsoft (a proprietary software).
To Laguna, the major change occurs when President Evo Morales raises the “scientific technological sovereignty and independence.”
Stop paying for licenses for use of software Bolivia will mean for savings of about $ 6 million a year. That is why 164 of Telecommunications Act and its regulatory decree establishing the use of free software.
In turn, the computer expert, Nelson Mamani, said that adopting free software is expected neglecting the dependence US technology.
According to Mamani, this will also help to ensure state security and prevent espionage or countries outside hacker.
The computer expert believes that this software wins four freedoms. First freedom that is given is that the user can use in order and purpose you want
“The difference with proprietary software is that it prohibits the user to use the software with another purpose. Instead the Free will gives you the ability to modify it as the user wants, “he said.
The second is that the user can know the binary code that was developed a program to meet all your applications.
“For example if you click save in an application program can also save information, send the information to a server abroad,” he said.
A third freedom is that it is may modify or remove functionality to software code. The fourth, Mamani said is “the freedom to distribute free software, then purchase, to whom you want and when you want”
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