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Lessons from open source in the Mexican government (lwn.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's easy to say. Do you think the Italian government is going to find an article written in Hindi on the experiences it made with open source education? Or that small towns are going to have the budget to go deeper than the first page on Google that ignored the internet archive?

If it really were that simple and it worked, we wouldn't have to convince governments to use open source.

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[–] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes, that's what I meant. It was a sarcastic remark on the current government's general level of skills with web-technologies. I suppose the obligatory /s was missed