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Free Software is only for rich countries or economic good times and waste
Not too many days 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 type consulting on SAP products: “Free software is only for richer or for times of economic prosperity and wasteful countries. “
Your assertion is based on strong, according to their judgment in the use that is operating systems do. 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.- forgets 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 will never generate technological independence or wealth the region, but simply consumerism, supplier dependence and passive role instead of becoming actors and protagonists of technology.
4.- proprietary software has to concentrate knowledge, making the rest of simple regions and technological illiterate consumers.
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 have said a thousand and one 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, along with all men and usually comment on this blog:
Software Free in government, the only option
This obviously bothers transnational, large consulting TICS and the cast of lobbyists, consultants, “Achievers” … there environment technologies and public, and hence, have contrived to find explanations as the initial statement administrations.
Because, as explained in the occasional interview, why the Administration does not use 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 need really is. freer and less software “neutrality”
And though all these reasons were not enough, I’d like to stay with the main.
- Betting Free software is not only opt for a model of creation and independence, sovereignty and providing you therefore put the course of your country or your administration in the hands of your citizenship and not on foreign technology corporations.
- Betting on 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 chains that end with the current existing computer colonialism
Ramón Ramón. | Posted in your ramonramon.org blog
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