Does Free Software is only for rich countries or to moments of … – Rebellion

Free Software is only for rich countries or economic good times and waste

“Free software is only for rich countries, because it is a expense and not an investment, “a new statement with which we try to deceive.

A few days ago I could read something in a forum on electronic signature, said a consultant from a transnational ICT dedicated to implementing proprietary software and / or sell large SAP consulting on product type:

“Free software is only for rich countries or economic good times and waste”

His blunt statement was based on, in their judgment, on the use made of the operating systems. According to him, since the largest percentage of users use windows, a public authority can not invest resources in developing free software as the desktop linux is used by very few people.

Of course, in this statement, there several major contradictions:

1.- Free Software is not only GNU / Linux, and, most importantly, free software platform is real, and it works equally well on Linux than on any other system proprietary operating. Even more, there are plenty of free software running on windows, Can examples? for example firefox or thunderbird, libreoffice / openoffice …. among many others.

2.- Forget that in countries like Brazil the use of free software is becoming more mainstream day in Andalusia or all schools, community centers, libraries, … use free software and talked of many hundreds of thousands of computers.

3.- pay royalties or licenses for the simple right to use a computer program or technological independence never generate wealth in the region, but simply consumerism dependence supplier and passive role instead of becoming actors and leaders of technology.

4.- proprietary software has to concentrate knowledge, making the rest of regions in simple and illiterate consumer technology

and many other motivations that usually comment on my posts

Of course, I reaffirm free software is not free to squander public money, nor can it become the excuse, as I said in Arabian interventions. But from there, to consider that free software is an expense because only used linux a few, I think an awful lot of large, most understand that ignorance is used so interested to see if, as so many nonsense takes hold . the technical and policy makers from government

And for the reasons stated ateriormente together to tod @ s tend to comment on this blog:

Free Software governments, only option

This obviously bothers transnational, large consulting TICS and the cast of lobbyists, consultants ‘Achievers’ … there around technology and government, and hence, they have to find explanations gimmicky as the initial claim.

Because, as explained in the occasional interview,

Why not use the Administration free software? Excuses are many, but real reasons, only two: corruption and ineptitude of those responsible.

because the crisis we are currently experiencing, it is not an economic crisis, but of values, what we really need is more free software and less “neutrality.”

And though all these reasons no were sufficient, I would stay with the main:

• Betting Free software is not just bet on a model of creation and independence, which gives you sovereignty and therefore put the direction of your country or your administration in the hands of your citizenship and not on foreign technology corporations
• Betting Free software is moving from simple consumer role, future and freedom to create.
• Betting Free software is not wasting scarce public resources, but mostly end technological addiction, mainly in education.

We demand our political leaders to release us from the technological and end up with the current existing computer colonialism chains

Font.: http://ramonramon.org/blog/2014/10/03/el-software-libre-es-solo-para-paises-ricos-o-para-momentos-de-bonanza-economica-y-despilfarro/