RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT, AND INNOVATION IN EXTREMADURA: A GNU/LINEX CASE STUDY.

Assess the growth and development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) promoted by political initiative in Extremadura, Spain. Contention of experts that ICTs are the primary means for economic development; Factors that affect different models of ICT development; Significance of the...

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Publicado en:	Philosophy Today Vol. 48; no. 5; pp. 16 - 23
Autores principales:	Alonso, Andoni, Casas, Luis, Castro, Carlos, Solis, Fernando
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	DePaul University- Poetry East 2004 Supplement
Materias:	Information technology Policy sciences Economic development Communitarianism Counterculture Computer operating systems Extremadura (Spain) Spain
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Sumario:	Assess the growth and development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) promoted by political initiative in Extremadura, Spain. Contention of experts that ICTs are the primary means for economic development; Factors that affect different models of ICT development; Significance of the countermovement called communitarianism which is a political philosophy that recover values erased by technological development and the global market; Historical development of open source software (OSS) movement by Red Hat GNU/Linux; Development of an OSS operating system from Linux-based system called Linex (Linux+Extremadura).