Ta tuansi, pense que nunca iba a salir, solo que, quien es peñalba? :S <div>2007/10/26, Leo Gomez <<a href="mailto:leo.telsen@gmail.com">leo.telsen@gmail.com</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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: <a href="http://informaticanicaragua.net/index.php/topic,286.0.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://informaticanicaragua.net/index.php/topic,286.0.html</a> 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. -- Ubuntu-ni mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Ubuntu-ni@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-ni@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ni" target="_blank"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ni</a> </blockquote></div> -- Norman Garcia Aguilar <a href="http://normangaguilar.blogspot.com">http://normangaguilar.blogspot.com</a> Linux user # 444131 Ubuntu user # 15806