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Campaña contra el software privativo en la educación argentina
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Campaign against privative software in the Argentine education
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Campaign against privative software in the Argentine education While in Europe it fines to the Microsoft company by 899 million euros by monopoly and abuse of position dominate, here in Argentina the governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, Daniel Scioli receives it with the open arms. One is a digital colonization of the country.

To all the activists of the movement of Software Libre, user groups, developer, graphical software programmers, designers, webmasters, journalists, educators, students, administrators of GNU/Linux forums and other people friend:

9000 schools of the Province of Buenos Aires will be equipped with computers with Microsoft Windows installed of factory. This is an enormous delay with respect to the decision of the previous government, who in 2004 seted out to install GNU/Linux in the computer science equipment and he took it ahead to a great extent, although not with the adapted skill, the PCs in the Tertiary Schools of the Province at least came with Software Libre and without Windows, representing an advance in the matter of technological independence and great saving the coffers of the State (that is to say, our pockets).

At the moment Scioli Governor met with Bill Gates and announced a massive plan of computerization.

From the movement of Software Libre we must call to reject privative and anti-educative propose resemblance, and to make a counterproposal.

It is why it is summoned to initiate campaigns of information and propaganda that can arrive at the educational and noneducational unions, to the centers of students to explain to them clearly so that we must reject the extranjerización and privatization of our education in the computer science aspect:

* It does not promote the local development of software
* It prevents to the State, educational, noneducational and students to control the operating systems since:
* The source code cannot be studied
* The operating system with any aim cannot be used
* It is not possible to be made copies, except for paying to Microsoft
* The operating system cannot be improved adapting it to local necessities

This would be different if Software Libre were used, which allows to make all the previous one: study, modification, improvement, copy, fomenting therefore learning of one disciplines (the programming) which it represents one of the more excellent expressions cultural of was, and offered control to the State on its computer science equipment.

The educational students and who form with Software Libre will be the one who control he himself, will be able to share copies with their companions, to improve it, to study it, to have the possibility of modifying each detail.

As well as in other scholastic subjets it is taught how to make such-and-such experiment (for example in Chemistry a “prescription” occurs), free software offers that possibility.

Not to use free software in the school is like learning music but not being able to see the score, is like learning plastic and not having slight knowledge on perspective, tonalities, chromatic circle; it is as to learn mathematical in base only to the results of a problem (or to always use a computer for everything), instead of making the process of resolution of he himself.

Who are educated with privative software will have, by all this, a deficit formation.

We called a:

* To install Software Libre instead of Windows to defend the public and gratuitous education

* To put in practice the use, the education and development of Software Libre

* To actively reject from the educational, noneducational unions and centers of students any plan of the Government whom it has to do with Microsoft or another privative software.

Original article: http://www.mastermagazine.info/articulo/12831.php

April 9, 2008 | 1:30 AM Comments  0 comments

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