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Why is Hugo Chavez such a big open-source software fan?
  • 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.