I guess Cuba is following in my footsteps (lol). The downside to my new laptop is the Microsoft office collection that comes with it is only a limited trial which would then necessitate my purchasing it. So rather than do that I finally uploaded the Open Source software office software and it's been very similar to Microsoft Word. The only issue we had was a temporary one of learning that documents made in Open Office must be renamed to be able to open on the computers with Word. That said with the ease and the huge difference with Open Source Software being free, it's really a smart move for Cuba to:
HAVANA (AP) - Cuba's communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least one capitalist empire - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) - by joining with socialist Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source software.
Both governments say they are trying to wean state agencies from Microsoft's proprietary Windows to the open-source Linux operating system, which is developed by a global community of programmers who freely share their code.
"It's basically a problem of technological sovereignty, a problem of ideology," said Hector Rodriguez, who oversees a Cuban university department of 1,000 students dedicated to developing open-source programs.
Other countries have tried similar moves. China, Brazil and Norway have encouraged the development of Linux for a variety of reasons: Microsoft's near-monopoly over operating systems, the high cost of proprietary software and security problems.
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