[Ubuntu-ni] Artículo en The Nica Times

[Leo Gomez]

En la edición de esta semana del The Nica Times sale una referencia al Grupo
Ubuntu y la comunidad FOSS nica (en inglés):

Artículo completo enlazado desde:
http://informaticanicaragua.net/index.php/topic,286.0.html

Extracto:

An Internet connection is only half of the equation. Expensive computer
hardware and software is also necessary. That may soon change. Advocates of
open-source software are hard at work in promoting Linux – a free competitor
to Microsoft's Windows – as a low-cost alternative for small businesses and
private homes.

"People are too poor to buy new equipment," says Leandro Gómez, the contact
manager of Ubuntu Nicaragua, an open-source software advocacy group.
"Schools don't have the money, businesses don't have the money. Free
software is a great opportunity to bring resources to places that cannot
afford them."

Norman García teaches a class on the Linux operating system at the private
Institute of Computing and Systems in Managua, one of the few offered
outside of universities.

"A license for Windows costs $180, Microsoft Office is another $200, you can
spend $500 or $600 on licenses alone," he says."We want to show that there
is an alternative, there is another option with zero
cost."

He notes that only the government, which has a long-standing contract with
Microsoft, and the large businesses use legally licensed software.

"For students, for small businesses, it's impossible to afford," García
says. Gómez and García are also working on a program to reuse discarded
computers, installing them with lightweight versions of Linux.

"We're hoping to set them up in high schools, in public places where kids
can use the computers," Gómez says. Little by little, Nicaragua is lurching
into the digital age.

"We're maybe 10, 15 years behind," Peñalba says."But we're getting there.
------------ próxima parte ------------
Se ha borrado un adjunto en formato HTML...
URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ni/attachments/20071026/90bed5c0/attachment.htm