Philippines 2010 Elections and Ubuntu

May 6th, 2010

Filed under: Ubuntu

The Philippines 2010 Election will be using an electronic counting machine for the first time. The Linux-powered machines were provided by Smartmatic and the ROMs are managed by (and supposedly programmed in) Ubuntu.

Yes, Ubuntu has a major role to play, albeit obscurely, in our country’s history.

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