| Europe's Microsoft Alternative [Washington Post] |
Nov. 04, 2002
A region in Spain is embracing Linux led by the efforts college professor turned politician Luis Millan Vazquez de Miguel reports Ariana Eunjung Cha for the Washington Post Online . . .
" . . . Vazquez de Miguel is the minister of education, science and technology in a western region of Spain called Extremadura, a mostly rural expanse of olive trees and tiny towns with 1.1 million inhabitants. In April, the government launched an unorthodox campaign to convert all the area's computer systems, in government offices, businesses and homes, from the Windows operating system to Linux, a free alternative . . ."
"the government has produced 150,000 discs with the software, and it is distributing them in schools, electronics stores, community centers and as inserts in newspapers. It has even taken out TV commercials about the benefits of free software . . . "
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