Sometimes leveling the playing field against larger companies is no easy task. But but gosh, that is exactly what the Peruvian Congress has made possible here recently.

Legislators in Peru have approved a hotly contested bill sanctioning use of open source software by government and levelling the playing field for start-ups against Microsoft.

The Peruvian Congress has passed a bill that prohibits any public institution from buying systems that tie users into any particular type of software or that limits “information autonomy”. Public institutions are also barred from having a pre-determined preference for either proprietary software or open-source software. [Read the rest]