Software Livre em Países em Desenvolvimento

Open Source in Government: Outside of the US and Europe, cost is a big motivator for using open source software - but it's not the only one

http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39020463,39236745,00.htm

Um dos exemplos mais interessantes é a possibilidade de adaptar o software livre para diferentes idiomas -- tarefa normalmente negligenciada pela maioria dos fabricantes de software proprietário:

"The availability of software in a local language can also be a factor in the deployment and support of open source software by governments. For example, the South African government has funded a project to translate OpenOffice.org into the 11 official languages of South Africa. This project is nearly completed, while Microsoft Office 2003 supports only one of the official South African languages — English — according to the Microsoft Web site."

http://www.openoffice.org

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