Peru

"To guarantee the free access of citizens to public information, it is indespensable that the encoding of data is not tied to a single provider. The use of standard and open formats gives a guarantee of this free access, if necessary through the creation of compatible free software.!

Http://www.gnu.org.pe/resmseng.html

http://www.gnu.org.pe/rescon.html

Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez, Peruvian Congressman

The bill's index entry is at http://200.37.159.7/paracas/proyectos2001.nsf/39d1283abd2aafa705256b9e0080cd60/9964fd79d493289b05256b9f0003b8a6?OpenDocument

My response including it is at http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7267/976

http://bmj.com/cgi/eletters/321/7267/976#21916

to be exact.

MS original image at

http://www.gnu.org.pe/carta1.html

The Nanterre report

http://www.pcworldmalta.com/specials/MSPiracy/

11/28/2001

http://www.unlimited.net.nz/unlimited/unlimited.nsf/ArchiveByDate/554265C2F5B45F57CC256B190069B05A?OpenDocument

         At           http://pimientolinux.com/peru2ms/

         you can find translations to many languages of the peruvian bill,

M$ response and all you would like to know about this story.

Peru and other countries and MS' own copyright violation

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,51902,00.html

In Argentina, for example, the Free Path Foundation (Fundación Vía Libre), http://www.vialibre.org.ar/ posted a draft of a bill proposing federal government use of free software on the Internet, founder Federico Heinz said.