[Am-info] Why isn't Open Source really happening in Latin America?

[Fred Miller]

<http://www.open-mag.com/cgi-bin/opencgi/email/redirect.cgi?Open0426>
 
In everyone's life some rites de passage help you learn that you cannot go far 
by believing everything you hear. From the day someone lets you in on the 
fact that there's no such person as a tooth fairy to the night it dawns on 
you that there's no such thing as a Web Service, such maturations serve well. 
 
This week, we came of age on two issues: Suppliers are in the throes of coping 
with something that does not begin with RF and end with ID; and Latin 
America's fierce embrace of free and Open Source software is not imminent. 
 
Whither Latin America's Open Source? Responding to that question is author and 
consultant Mikko Valimaki who earlier this year was hired by the 
Inter-American Development Bank to study a write a report in that region.  
And what is UCCnet, and why do prominent suppliers and Open Source developers 
see it as the way to resolve the real kink in the supply chain?
 
For such awakenings, click on http://www.open-mag.com/cgi-bin/opencgi/email/
redirect.cgi?Open0426

-- 
"The only secure Microsoft software is what's still
shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..." (Forno)