VENEZUELA: Chavez promotes free alternative to Microsoft

November 17, 1993
Issue 
663
World

Associated Press reported on March 29 that Venezuela's socialist president Hugo Chavez, "long critical of big transnational companies", was promoting a free open-sourced software as an alternative to "market-dominating" Microsoft. AP reported that Venezuela's science and technology ministry recently held the Latin American Free Software Installation Fair, an event promoting the use of the open-source Linux operating system and other non-proprietary programs over Microsoft's Windows.

From Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, April 5, 2006.
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