Requião and John "Maddog" Hall open Latinoware 2009 and advocate the end of the technological monopoly

Governor Roberto Requião and John "Maddog" Hall opened late on Thursday (22), in Foz do Iguaçu, the 6th Latin American Conference on Free Software-Latinoware 2009. Requião called for an end of the monopoly of technical knowledge and summoned about 4 thousand gathered people to defend open source as a tool for creativity, and to generate alternative employment and income. "The non-proprietary software is essential to ensure the sovereignty of a country in relation to data-processing concessions. This congress is a cry for freedom, "he said.

Citing the trajectory of John "Maddog" Hall, creator of Linux, the governor rejected the criticisms to the adoption of open software. "I watched an interview with this brilliant man, whose name means mad dog, and today met him in this event. Let them call us, too, mad dogs, because here we are transforming ideas into action. Let each of you to be a mad dog: libertarian and intelligent, "said Requião.

PARANA - Paraná Recent advances in the area were considered examples of the advantages of the public tools of information. According to the governor Roberto Requião, only at the first years of use of free software, more than $ 450 million were saved from contracts with private systems.

"The development and production of tools and services using free software opened the view of officials of Paraná. The State Data Processing Company of Paraná, Celepar, has advanced and having being obsolete before, hired staff, bought equipment and is now national prominence. Curitiba is now considered capital of the world of free software, "said the governor.

Ariel da Silveira, managing director of Celepar, said that sharing experiences has been the principal value of the company since 2003. "Sharing is key when it comes to free software. In the past, many people said this kind of conduct would stop the state. It haven’t stoped. Today we have excellence at free tools and our expectation is that this knowledge invade the academia and spread itself much more, "he said.

For the Brazilian general director of Itaipu, Jorge Samek, the deployment of the Express system, free software used by the government of Parana state, was a real revolution and use of free platforms is transforming the region of Foz do Iguacu in a pole of development of these tools . "We understand that the most liberating tool of the last century and of this century is the internet. Right now, our efforts are to ensure that this become also a more democratic tool, "he said.

LatinoWare - Latinoware 2009 is promoted by the Binational Itaipu, Itaipu Technology Park (ITP), Paraná State's Data Processing Company (Celepar) and by the Federal Data Processing Service (Serpro). There will be held 184 lectures, round tables and short courses on topics related to information technology and communication systems supported in free software developed on the continent. More than 3.9 thousand people from 10 different countries have registered for the event, which runs until Saturday (24).

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