Esteban Mendieta Jara - Blog

Is the holder of the note published in the Diario El Pais in Spain.

This gives us the reason, once again, why use free software , and we can not be at the expense of a company change the systems and support we run out, or are required to have to buy a new computer, think about whether this happen with a system that manages a country's securities and the company that owns the system decides not to give more support or simply does not give us the keys or access to the system, there is a clear example as happened in Venezuela .

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The Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES) under Executive Order number 1014 , signed by President Rafael Correa on April 10 this year, will use free software on their systems and computer equipment.

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The President, Rafael Correa, noted that the web portal of the Public Procurement System was built entirely with free software tools and developed by professional Ecuadorian hundred percent, demonstrating the possibilities and technological capabilities committed to the country's progress.

As the President said that "This will meet the government guidelines contained in the decree issued a few days ago, establishing a policy of central government using Free Software in all instances. "

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Yesterday, Thursday April 10, 2008, the President of Ecuador Rafael Correa Delgado , 1014 signed a decree to which the Free Software becomes a state policy to be adopted by all entities.

This has been a big step for the Ecuadorian community of free software, because a year ago the President by a video declared a state policy on use. Today it is a reality.

Not only the citizens' revolution is underway, but also the technological revolution.

The decree can be downloaded from here .

Ahead free software, go ahead!

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• President Correa authorizes the use of Free Software in Public Administration Central

I join to this post posted on the website of Rafael Bonifaz

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Before iso make the official announcement, both Microsoft and ECMA issued its press release announcing the victory of OOXML over reason.

By unofficial Open Malasya Blog , the following list of countries that voted apparently not OOXML.

• Canada
• China
• Ecuador
• India
• Iran
• New Zealand
• South Africa
• Brazil
• Cuba

According to the site of openxml.info in several countries there are several cases of irregularities. One of the most notable is the case in which Norway changed their vote from no to yes, despite that 80% of the committee was against this decision. The reactions to this were immediate and the director of the technical committee has made ​​a public protest on the subject.

I think this story is far from over. People from the community of free software in Latin America, we must look to use ODF as a national standard OOXML before spreading too fast.

Before ending this post I want to thank Microsoft for giving me the opportunity to meet people as smart and capable as I have known in this process. Today I have friends all over the world who think in a way similar to mine and that together we can do great things. This was already demonstrated in September when we beat Microsoft and OOXML. This time we lost the battle, but we managed to form a community pro global open standards. Thanks Microsoft for this gift.

And as this video says " Microsoft we love "