{"id":26639,"date":"2016-04-26T15:01:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T15:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/udsenterprise.com\/universities-drive-free-software-adoption\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T07:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T07:42:12","slug":"universities-drive-free-software-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udsenterprise.com\/en\/universities-drive-free-software-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities drive free software adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the ranking featuring Spanish universities, this year the <strong>University Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez of Elche<\/strong> is the number one, moving <strong>University of Granada<\/strong> to the second place. The <strong>University of La Laguna<\/strong> (Tenerife) is again in the third position.<\/p>\n<p>Experts from RuSL explained that &#8220;most universities have improved their score, in particular the University Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez, the University of La Laguna, the University of Sevilla, and Technical University of Madrid&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding hispanic american universities, the best ones this year are <strong>Callao National University<\/strong>, in Per\u00fa, the <strong>Costa Rica University<\/strong> and the <strong>University of Computer Sciences<\/strong> in Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hispanic american universities have improved their score over the last year&#8217;s results in Open Source culture and spreading of events related to free software&#8221;, concludes RuSL<\/p>\n<p>See all results at <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240616094829\/https:\/\/www.portalprogramas.com\/software-libre\/ranking-universidades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">RuSL website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Universities and Free Software Ranking<\/strong> (RuSL for the Spanish spelling) has published the fifth edition of its annual report.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 report shows a constant commitment of academic institutions to <strong>Free Software<\/strong> <strong>development<\/strong> and <strong>support<\/strong>. There is a growing number of <strong>universities<\/strong> really interested in supporting and spreading the use of free technologies. 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