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Since the beginning of the 2000s in Mexico and Latin America, the free and open source software community has consolidated in a very important way, promoting efforts to try to achieve a massive migration of users from Windows systems to Linux systems.
Although important advances were made, such as the federal government's austerity decrees around 2007 and attempts to achieve federal legislation on the use and adoption of free software at the beginning of the 2010s, a truly notable event was the promulgation of the State Law on Free Software of the State of Zacatecas in 2013, which decreed the promotion of the adoption, development, use and exploitation of FOSS in State Government projects and, in parallel, strengthening the State Government's Free Software Laboratory as the main promoter, manager and validator of compliance with said legislation, highlighting that this Law was replicated, achieving the promulgation of similar laws in the States of Sonora and Oaxaca.
Since the end of the 2010s, the strategy around the promotion of Open Source in Mexico, although legislation is not the absolute solution for a solid consolidation of these technologies in the productive sectors, strengthened all those efforts that specifically in universities, some governments and even companies undertook towards the use of FOSS in their productive environments.
In such a way that the actions around this mission were strengthening an environment with efforts such as the following:
- The technological infrastructures of a large number of federal government agencies, a good number of state and even municipal governments, were deploying their priority projects on Linux architectures, open database engines and clustering, virtualization and administration platforms on Linux architectures.
- Academic institutions, although not entirely formally, were integrating FOSS technologies into their academic programs in subjects such as software development, computing, cybersecurity, project management and networks as a very valuable alternative for the benefit of students.
- Companies from micro to large corporations have been deploying their critical information systems on Linux architectures, from the virtualization and HPC architecture itself to Linux systems, monitoring and administration systems, as well as data assurance schemes.
This has been consolidating a better ecosystem in terms of the acceptance that open source and free software technological solutions are technologies on which major technological trends such as Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing mature, just to mention a few.
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@caxcan70
@mharo
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Computer Systems Engineer with a specialty in Networks and Telecommunications, passionate promoter of technological innovation and Open Source technologies, Professor at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas and the International University of La Rioja, Founder of the Free Software Laboratory of Zacatecas, Creator of the Collaborative Innovation Model and the Catalyst of Talent, Founder and President of the Foundation for Digital Development and Open Knowledge as well as leader of the Open Source Innovation Labs Network.
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| Level of Difficulty | Intermediate |
| Pronouns | He/Him |
