This is an interesting interview with a professor involved in the Cuban free software movement. He makes an interesting argument which is that the free as in price argument is not a compelling argument for Cuba to switch to free software. Because of the U.S. embargo against Cuba, in the past, their government and universities have used pirated, unlicensed proprietary software by default. They have just openly violated the licensing restrictions — what is Microsoft going to do, sue them? :) So the Cuban free software movement is really built upon the belief of liberation and freedom and peer-reviewed code as a superior development methodology.