Free Software Law in Peruvian Congress

An Anonymous Coward writes "There is a story on oreillynet.com on the response by a Peruvian Congressman to Microsoft's letter opposing a proposed Free Software Law. Here's the translated letter and this is the original letter that Microsoft submitted in response to the proposed law. It's always cool to see governments trying to enact these kinds of laws and watch the Microsoft backlash against them :)."

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Don't Be Hounded by MS!

[Devil's BSD]

Microsoft will be on Peru's tail for centuries if this law is passed. Although I must say this will suck, the inevitable will happen: Microsoft will sue Peru so many times for petty things like copyright infringement for using an NTFS partition preloaded on a computer for 1 second or something that they will eventually have to give in. But I'll be optimistic. Go FreeBSD! RedHat! Run those M$uckers out of town!

Re:article-timesaver (slightly redundant)

[anonymous cowfart]

I may get moderated down for this, but Micro$haft really sucks donkey balls. What business it it of theirs to dictate what kind of software a nation uses. This is jus the kind of shit everybody hates Mickey$oft so much. Haven't they learned anything from the trials in USA? People don't like their practices.

I am glad that more and more governments are turning to Linux and other free (as in speech) alternatives when searching for software. If Microshit doesn't want this to happen, they have to radically change their direction. Instead of adding more features to their software, they should concentrate more on making their software secure. Windows - the Swiss cheese of Operating systems. What would be better advertising than "We have concentrated on security to keep your computer from getting infected by all kinds of malware. We have consulted several security experts that have analyzed our software thorougly." And actually doing it as well. Of course anyone can make good-looking slogans, I just did ;-), but to really do it. That defines good software. Not that I actually read the article, but let's how much cock the moderators have smoked today. Microsoft: Please do us all a favor and make your software secure. That way everybody wins. Tha customers are happy and willing to buy more of your products.

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