[Ubuntu-ni] Artículo en The Nica Times

[Norman Garcia Aguilar]

Ta tuansi, pense que nunca iba a salir, solo que, quien es peñalba? :S

2007/10/26, Leo Gomez <leo.telsen en gmail.com>:
>
> 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.
>
>
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