ES: Cenatic joins campaign against unlicensed software
Cenatic, Spain's national resource centre for open source software, this Wednesday will join other organisations in a campaign meant to reduce the use of unlicensed copies of software. "Free and open source software provide a legitimate alternative that respect the rights of its creators", the organisation said in a statement.
The organisation says it has been invited to participate in this year's campaign to affirm the legality of free and open source software, "a type of software that can be freely used and provides lower cost alternatives to proprietary applications."
According to the resource centre, more and more companies in Spain are incorporating free and open source software: "They are taking advantage of the business opportunities that this sector is generating." The number of IT services providers specialised in open source is growing, Cenatic says, pointing to associations such as the confederation of open source business associations (Asolif). "These provide a wide range of services, ranging from installation, integration, maintenance or legal services, to providing all kinds of services to public administrations."
The national open source observatory is currently studying how these open source business are shaping Spain's IT sector.
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This growing open source IT sector can help to provide legitimate alternatives to illegally copied software, explains Cenatic.
The campaign against using unlicensed copied applications is organised for the third consecutive year by the ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, the ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society and IT business organisations such as the Business Software Alliance.
More information:
Campaign website (in Spanish)
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