Re: Use of Free Software within the State

Juan,

I'd be happy to get you some information. What types of migration
references would you need? We have state gov'ts, schools and
not-for-profits, for example, migrating every day. Some are doing it to
save money, some to increase stability/security, some because it's "not
Microsoft".

Germany just signed a deal with IBM to roll-over everything in the gov't
to Linux. 

Peruvian Congressman Nunez has written a well founded, well worded, and
wholly accurate memo to Microsoft explaining why he favored a bill that
"excluded" use of proprietary software. One of his many points was that
he owed it to his constituents, as one of the keepers of their most
sensitive information, that nothing about the process be hidden from
their eyes. Even the code. He went on to say he had no reason to trust
proprietary code, and if you couldn't see the source code, he would
never trust it.

Check it out at:

http://www.gnu.org.pe/resmseng.html -- English translation
http://www.gnu.org.pe/resconms.html -- Original

Very powerful stuff.

Let me know, and I can point you to some information that may help your
cause.

Thanks!
Jeremy Hogan



On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 10:29, Juan Carlo Mejía wrote:
> Hello there!
> 
> I work for the Science & Technology Office of the Republic of Panama, at
> this moment the Panamanian Government is in the process of creating the
> "Electronic Government Bill", that I am afraid is going to favor major
> closed software companies as part of the deal.
> 
> Right know I am doing this project by myself, trying to find legal (and
> practical) bases to propose the use of Free Software within the State or
> at least to create some kind of information campaign to generate
> awareness over this issue.  I already visited GNU and the like sites for
> references, now i looking for public offices migration references, I
> hope this mailing list is the right place, if not, just advise.
> 
> At the moment the Institution I work for has lots of social projects
> that can be migration candidates, and we also run Education
> Infrastructures (A certified Cisco Academy & a Certifed M$ education
> (indoctrination?) center) that could host a RedHat training center, I
> will enter into more details if this is the place to discuss it.
> 
> Why a Red Hat migration list? well when I started here (10/2001) I
> migrated all the Public Services Servers of this Institution from some
> puny commercial os to Red Hat, since that time everything runs fine, end
> of the story.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated. 
> 
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> Juan Carlo Mejía 
> Coordinador de Servicios de Internet
> SENACYT
> Panamá
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> Email:	[email protected]
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