[Ubuntu-ni] Artículo en The Nica Times

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On 10/26/07, Norman Garcia Aguilar <norman.garcia en ubuntu.org.ni> wrote:
>
> 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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