El La Jornada Newspaper has published a news that will make our friends happy Mexicans, And is that The Ministry of Public Function (SFP) will use in a few months Linux , the Operating system on their computers.
First, you have to wait 9 months for the agreement made by Vicente Fox with Bill Gates, in as much as ecosystem provides services and software to Federal government, State and Municipall. When said contract ends, one will be signed with Novell de Mexico. According to the official note:
At a press conference, the SFP's "collaboration" with Novell de México, a subsidiary of The Attachmate Group, of US capital, was announced, which guarantees "a unilateral offer of its services, without implying the generation of rights or obligations of contracting by the federal public administration ", said Gastón Pernalete, general director of the corporate in Mexico.
Javier Dávila, head of the SFP's Public Procurement Policy unit, ratified that at the end of Felipe Calderón's term, the agreement with Microsoft will be terminated (which involved multimillion-dollar investments from the federal government to develop electronic government and the questioned project Enciclomedia, "donated" by Gates), which offered "preferential terms of sale in terms of costs."
He clarified that "there is no migration policy to Linux." Novell's proposal, he added, is not "to guide the purchase", but is given "in terms of each of the agencies no longer looking for offers, because there is already a general approach."
I do not know to what extent this decision will have an impact on the use of Free software en Mexico, but it is certainly interesting news.