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 as Operating system on their computers.
First, you have to wait 9 months for the agreement made by Vicente Fox with Bill Gates, Ya que Microsoft 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.
Excellent news ... since I am Mexican and long live GNU / Linux 😀
Hopefully in my country news of that type will be heard. Congratulations to Mexico for this initiative. 😀
I can only say that the secres will give the patatús when they change ms office and the bar that says start.
hahahahaha, how do you know, small birds that will roll
LOL !!!!
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I don't think so ... about eight months ago I accompanied some Mexican friends who are designers to carry out some procedures for their identification of the IFE, the fact is that I realized that the software they use on PCs is Ubuntu and there they have installed the program for data capture and storage.
When I asked the manager if he knew that what they used as OS was Linux He told me that he did not know and that they had recently changed their PCs with that new system. When I asked him if he noticed any difference between this new and Windows He told me that they didn't care because the engineers trained them to use the programs.
Now, an important point is that the Mexican agencies will use GNU / Linux because of costs and not because of the philosophy of free software, which is very valid.
Perhaps I also need to add bureaucrats ...
Total or get used or get used.
The visit of Richard Stallman to the Mexican Senate was worth something.
Exact ,,, not just, «we are going to use this new software», there are trainings ,,, hours and hours of training
Interesting case. First of all, it shows a point that these days has been spinning in my head: in my opinion, the experience of moving from an OS like Windows, to one like Ubuntu or Linux Mint (I could generalize that for all Linux, but better I abstain) is "important" and is "substantial" for users who have the desire and eagerness to meet and explore in new fields.
I suppose that for those people who simply jumped from Windows to Ubuntu, or in the case of my relatives when they use my desktop computer, they do not know in the first place what version of Windows they have, and in the second place they do not care, nor do they they realize the benefits of one or the other, they simply use it. They place MS Office / Libre Office or Chrome / Firefox on the screen, and that's enough for them. Viruses for them is not a problem, they simply do not see them. Or in the case of using a browser, they would never have as a criterion of choice the fact that in a specific one they feel expiated (I still do not understand that, unless those who say it are created by people with a relevant public or political interest).
These days I think that the issue of the benefits and the evaluation that each user gives to an Operating System depends on the interest that the user has. This can be seen, for example, in those who boast of advanced because they have tried other distros with a reputation as 'essential', or who have already abandoned what common linuxers use and when they come across, for example, Ubuntu or Windows, complain and determine it as the worst.
In that order of things, your answer, Tina, seems very accurate to the comment of @ sieg84. It may even be those who are interested in knowing, or who boast that they are advanced, or who adopt an adherent position of Software as a type of life, those who complicate the most and those who complain the most, because they have simply become familiar and They have done a whole process of value appropriation of what they use, and they no longer conceive of something different.
Many times I have found that people who simply go with disinterest in things, manage to obtain a much more optimal development (the case that Tina tells), than those who are already knowledgeable about certain aspects. And that says a lot.
In fact, it has happened to me that when I try to explain to a user of Windows the advantages of Free software, especially in security matters, they look at me as if to say: Where the hell did this bug come from? For them Windows It protects them from all harm, they do not feel threatened, even once talking to a "girl who studied Computer Science", she even told me that the BackDoor that Windows has so that the FBI can access computers is a way to protect her ... O_O
Anyway. My point is, I know what I want, as TDE says, and it is definitely not Windows.
lolie because it's true.
And return from a long absence ... which will last longer ...
And I can only say to this….
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Awww, we don't use GNU / Linux here or at school 🙁 (unless it's public and government… They use a disguised Debian Stable…). Good initiative from Mexico 🙂
ajajaj «debian stable disguised» xD ejejeje
Well here in Venezuela they made a "sovereign and socialist" pseudo system called Canaima, which every time proves to be bad, and I am not saying it for saying it, I have engineer friends who love the SWL and work for the government and its companies migrating all the stations from work and everyone tells me the same thing: "To be based on Debian is lousy".
But in Mexico they were smarter, instead of reinventing the wheel they turned to experts in the field to reduce their licensing costs and obtain something of equal or better quality for a lower price and with extended support and specialized attention. Very contrary to here, they try to politicize Linux saying that it is socialist and that Canaima is 100% made in Venezuela, that we will be technologically sovereign, something that is further from the truth, impossible ...
I love my country and the SWL, but sometimes things are worse than you think.
I forgot to add that everything here is quite a liar since Linux is only used in a few government establishments, all other companies (owned directly by the government) are users of windows licenses or they directly pirate it, and it is not a joke, I have seen it myself in my internships.
Let me tell you something. It is true that behind Canaima there is a political objective, as there is behind NEW, The Distribution to which they gave the title of "Cuban", but I do not share your criteria. I have tried enough CanaimaOf course from a LiveCD, and I really admire the work done by the Venezuelan developers.
The distro is based on debian-squeeze, so the fluidity with which it works is amazing. Although the Artwork is not the most beautiful I have seen, if I consider it beautiful and it seems to me (because I am not Venezuelan) that it identifies quite a lot to the culture and customs of that country. Canaima has its own applications that are great, Turpial is an example of this, and although I have seen that many users have had problems with it on the mailing list, it must be said that they are not due to something that cannot be fixed.
Can't compare Canaima with UbuntuWell, they are very different things, with different objectives and with a different development, but as I said before, I highly value the work done, which I think is excellent. That's my opinion.
What good news 😀
Diegoo greetings bro. ahaha well I don't know why but when I see the fedora logo uff my spirits go up ahahaha .. and more if it's KDE. (eager to learn)
Absolutely true 🙁 people here in Venezuela when they hear "Canaima" believe or think that it is something from the government or Chavista .. to the point that one says "free software" and they tell you: here we are not Chavistas ahahaha .. laugh the thing but in reality it hurts a lot.
It is very necessary to re-promote technological independence here in Venezuela, because without me having anything left inside, canaima is a disaster .. I used canaima for 3 days until they offered me ubuntu .. but what you say is true Nano "To be based on Debian it is lousy."
I prefer to recommend that you use the outdated stable version of Debian than that you use Canaima .. Chavez has us dizzy with the supposed Simon Bolivar satellite that the only thing it serves is to watch television ¬¬
Wow! that is unexpected, congratulations 😀
I had already heard a comment like that, I have a relative who is a teacher in a high school, who will have to get abused with Ubuntu because they would soon start using that operating system! I'm glad, so many times that I recommended it to him but he didn't want to! 😀 Now he will do it from awevo as we say around here 😀
Not only is this excellent news, we are also launching a new Mexican distribution, "BeckOS". Powered by INFOTEC (Information and Documentation Fund for Industry). http://www.beakos.org.mx/swb/es/BeakOS_GNULinux/home
It looks interesting, especially due to the fact that it is not based on any distro ... hopefully it will do better than a black jug 😀
I say that in Mx, most people do not know what operating system they use. Even those who know what Windows is I doubt they know the version or edition.
In my technological institute, in San Luis Potosí, Mx. Ubuntu was implemented since 2007 to half of the computers in the laboratory. I learned how to do the basics (initial setup and setup) in training and have been using it ever since. Although before I had used Suse Desktop Enterprise from Novell and long before slackware from live CD.
That would be great to implement in Guatemala since here there is no "100% free software" in the government, it is 100% pirated software not only in the government in Guatemalan companies as well.
Hopefully Guatemala, as is their custom, copy Mexico in this which is good and not only in other things XD.
The truth is that the Mexican government got the hang of it, I don't think a new distro definitely used Ubuntu so as not to spend so much on training since it is very easy to use in fact in a very personal way, my definition of Ubuntu is
"I don't like configuring Debian."
LOL