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A few months of their first year since the President of Ecuador declared the use of Free Software in Public Institutions of the State, and you can see the first results.

According to the news published by the newspaper El Comercio , the savings from the use of free software so far amount to USD 15 million.

Additionally, in the coming days, the Undersecretariat of Computer released the source code of a document management system called "Quipux" a system that is based on the Colombian project Orpheus .

Wiggle the news: Meneame.net

Today marks 2 years of the meeting between Rafael Correa and Richard Stallman , why Rafael Bonifaz and I have decided to write about as they did encounter. Here you can read the version of Rafael about the story.

During the election campaign of 2006, I worked one day receive mail the following message:

--- Forwarded message ----
From: Rafael Bonifaz
Date: October 4, 2006 11:53
Subject: Free Software
To: Rafael Correa

Dear Rafael,

My name is Rafael Bonifaz and I'ma systems engineer. Currently in addition to my professional work I am active in free software communities of Ecuador. In this country, little is spoken on the subject, but countries like Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Spain and parts of Europe are migrating to the use of Free Software. To win you the election, propose a plan regarding the use of free software in the state?

To cite one example, now the municipality of Quito should pay IBM a value close to $ 200 000 per year for the use of your mail server and that the mayor can share your calendar with the council. We can offer a similar solution, with a bit of software development and use of free software for a cost of nearly $ 20 000 for a single time. Hence, the municipality can hire us to support us or any other company that knows the subject. Are not tied to us.

With $ 200 000 a year can do more for the benefit of the community rather than pay a fee for use of computers. This is only a servant of a municipality. Imagine the cost of all licenses of Windows, Office and other programs used by the state. How we could save by using free software and the money spent would stay in training national professionals, instead of paying multinationals.

Sincerely,

Rafael Bonifaz

PD. The main free software community in Ecuador:
www.ecualug.org

One person who was responsible for reviewing the emails told me and what I do with this?, I read the message and told him, give me the answer.

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Few people had access to computers when Richard Matthew Stallman realized that the then-nascent software industry was adopting a business model based on denying users the four essential freedoms, and that he could do something about it. Today, millions of people, businesses and governments use the
result of efforts to preserve and defend their liberties started 25 years ago, yet few know about the GNU project. Celebrate the achievements and spread the word!

• http://www.gnu.org/

On September 27, 1983, RMS announced to the world his goal of writing a UNIX compatible operating system and free, ie not require users to give up their freedom to use, study, modify and distribute any software, modified or no. He invited programmers to join this task of developing a large enough body of software to enable people to use computers in freedom, according to the moral foundations of sharing, solidarity and reciprocity.

• http://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html

• http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.es.html

After the initial focus of development tools including a compiler, a debugger, an integrated development environment and system libraries (GCC, GDB, Emacs, and glibc, respectively), hundreds of other applications, utilities and libraries were contributed by a growing number of volunteers.

• http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/

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Well a few weeks ago the idea of ​​writing a post to help migrants with the use of tools available on the internet, but I really think this can also be useful post for exchange students, frequent travelers, backpackers, people who one way or another want to be in touch with loved ones and acquaintances, even within the same country.

I hope these tips can help you, if you have any more suggestion, send it to me by e-mail to include it.

I am writing this based on my experience when I travel out and some new things that I have known in recent months in Korea.

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I think one of the most interesting things to be on the road is that you have everything you do and show everything you do, at least this is my case, so I recommend you open a blog.

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Yesterday, Thursday April 10, 2008, the President of Ecuador Rafael Correa Delgado , signed the 1014 decree by 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 citizen's revolution is underway, but also the technological revolution.

The decree can be downloaded from here .

Ahead free software, go ahead!

Related News:

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

The Latin American Festival of Installation of Free Software ( FLISoL ) is the diffusion event Free Software in Latin America's largest. Is performed since 2005 and its main objective is to promote the use of free software, giving the general public aware of its philosophy, scope, progress and development.

Ecuador as in previous years will participate in this great event.

For more information on this event can visit the page the same.

KADO share this video that put him on the last day of the event. These are some of the time we spent in Korea.

Hope you like it Thanks friends kamsamida Korea