A Peruvian politician is proposing a bill to "obligate all public institutions to convert exclusively to open-source software" except for areas where no open-source program is available, according to Associated Press. Similar efforts are underway in Argentina, France, Mexico and Spain, often because governments are finding it impossible to pay for the licenses they need -- by one estimate, Peru owes more than $30 million in overdue software license fees.

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