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Brazil Mandates Shift to Free Software

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the freedom-through-mandatory-compliance dept.

truthsearch writes "LinuxToday is reporting news and a response about Brazil making Open Source mandatory for 80% of all computers in state institutions and businesses, setting up a 'Chamber for the Implementation of Software Libre.'" This is a big win for Linux, but is making it mandatory going too far? It would seem wiser to support a solution that favors the best tool for the job, which may not always be an open source product.

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  1. Dupe? by Steven+Blanchley · · Score: 0, Troll

    I could've sworn I saw this article here a day or two ago.

  2. Re:Mandate Free Software by sheldon · · Score: 0, Troll

    "The government shouldn't be subsidizing some _private_ interest if there is a public alternative."

    There's a name for this ideology. Hmm, what was it again?

    Oh yeah... Communism.

  3. Digital Communism of Red Linux by daedalos · · Score: 0, Troll

    is a menace to democracy around the world