Newcastle – a few years now, the Basque Country, through their governments and companies made a clear commitment to free software and pioneered give preference to products made with open source technology. Many of the results of that policy, and weaknesses, opportunities and challenges ahead are being debated in LibreCon 2014 international conference on free software and open technologies that began yesterday at the venue.
The two-day meeting lets delve into the most well-known advantages of free software, such as cost savings, independence from the utility or to make modifications and adaptations as the client, but also serve to promote the project in some institutions, such as the City of Munich and the French Gendarmerie, who performed successfully migrate its proprietary systems from traditional media to open applications.
Eneko Astigarraga president ESLE (Association of Free Software Euskadi), notes that this time the congress not only addresses the technology sector and companies working in this area, but has focused for the whole society to know the advantages and the many areas where free software has great potential.
According to Astigarraga is important to know that free software “creates more value for the territory of the companies that develop these technologies are implemented and allows a greater capacity for development than other alternatives, such as the purchase of proprietary systems and systems that come from outside. ” “For proprietary systems explains President ESLE- no local resellers, but the added value that leaves the resale is much lower than that generated by the development of open solutions, they also create more jobs in their own territory.”
In fact, in the last 8 years, employment in this sector in the Basque Country has increased eleven billing for nine.
more independent In terms of customer benefits of free software, Eneko Astigarraga cites independence and solutions provider that enables absorb knowledge the company or administration.
Asked about the momentum that came with free software reuse decree of the Basque Government and its subsidiaries, Eneko Astigarraga notes that “there is a willingness by the Basque government, and indeed the trends future are going out there, but we still do tour “. “From ESLE adds we are ready to assist management to develop walking and stuff.” According to Astigarraga, although the Basque administration “pioneered” in regulating the preferential use of free software reuse and code release, “then this initiative has not been developed as much as expected,” since in practice approved measures “have been implemented recently.”
In this situation suggests that “the decree administration recommends that before making any purchase of software will check if there is already something similar that can be usable, reusable and develop improved and more then that application is released, because it explains something that is paid with the money of every citizen and it is important to reverse and can be exploited. ” Eneko Astigarraga recalls that “the administration of any developed country is a major plaintiff software services of all kinds and now here is a decision to favor open source would be interesting to take advantage of it more.”
In 2014 LibreCon many topics and areas of interest to businesses, entrepreneurs, developers, consumers and users of information technologies and communication technologies (ICT) are addressed. The conference is structured into four strategic areas-health, education, industry and commerce, but, according to the president of ESLE says, “could have been many more.” “We chose these sectors because they are adds which may have higher implementation and development in the Basque Country. That is evident in the industry, but are also important sectors related to administration, health and education, and e-commerce, which has a strong potential for development and the free software is providing important solutions. FOSS and ICT in general are facilitators in any sector, are very cross could have included technologies and solutions for agriculture and aerospace, to name a few. ”
The example of Munich In the conference valuable management solutions, such as “digital signature with IP telephony, content management systems are studied and Records “,” in all these areas explains Eneko Astigarraga- no open source solutions that are as or more competitive than proprietary software. We understand that switching to these systems takes time and so we will take the example of the city of Munich, which have made the migration to free software. They explain that the process takes time because it requires learning, training people, provide technical support … The Munich is a good example because they have proven to save each year more than 10 million. We have a study that shows that the administration could save up to 400 million euros with the use of open source solutions. But it is not only important savings for the use and reuse, which it is, but also because many solutions are safer and more competitive. When the French Gendarmerie has chosen to open solutions and migrated its equipment to free software has done more for security, that economy. ”
The explanation for this higher level of security is that “attacks usually target the systems that have the greatest impact proprietary. Moreover, in open systems thousands of developers working worldwide, are tested more and better detect failures “concludes Astigarraga.
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