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Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:00 AM

Free software, Big Oil and Venezuelan politics

Why is Hugo Chavez such a big open-source software fan?
Andrew Leonard

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  • Friday, January 13, 2006 06:52 AM

    How does moving to Free Software help?

    While I'm all in favor of moving from closed, proprietary systems to open, free ones, I'm not really sure how Free Software would have solved Venezuela's problem here. Both Windows and Linux/Unix use passwords - if the contractor involved was withholding passwords, presumably they could have done so equally well if Linux was in use.

    —Sean P. Read Sean P.'s other letters

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