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September 29, 2005
Peru Votes to Allow Open-Source Software
This is a great news if the President of Peru will sign it into law. For those of you that don't know there is a war going on in the software world between the forces of good (Open Source) and the forces of evil (Micro$oft and the proprietary software developers). Basically Micro$oft is try to implement a global monopoly on software forcing people to put up with their inferior quality and utter lack of support. Now if a person decides to put up with that, more power to them. But when my tax dollars are going to pay for their monopoly and lack of choice, then I'm all up in arms. Which is what is happening in Governments all over the world. Instead of using public standards supported by everyone, they are being forced to pay massive sums of my money to have standards that aren't supported by anyone except the monopoly. My tax dollars going to make the world a worse place to live isn't something I can stomach. Of course given that the Republicans love monopolies and hate anything that makes America a better place we know that there is no way that we will see them supporting any effort to help this country.
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Posted by ManDrake at September 29, 2005 8:53 AM
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