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Brazilian Government Continues Push For Free Software
rmello writes "The 'Legislative Free Software Week' in Brazil ended last week, drawing 2,000 people, including 3 ministers and presidents of congress and senate. Computerworld reports (in Portuguese, translation by submitter), among other things, that 1) House of Representatives will NOT renew MS-Office licenses, but is looking at free software alternatives, 2) The free software parliamentary front was announced in congress, 3) The e-mail system of the house of representatives is being replaced by a free software one, 4) The federal government is looking at concrete measures to stimulate free software as means of saving money and stimulating the national software industry.
Looks like free software is here to stay in Brazil. Kudos to the many Brazilian free software groups working to make such victories a reality."
"witty brazillian comment"
This is the break the Brazillian economy has been needing! Finally, prosperity, untold riches for all it's citizens!
I mean what advantages does this development give to Linux users? Its not that the Brazilian govt will channel money that they used to pay MS to the FSF. They just want to cut costs.
The only direct advantage of this is that the knowledge that open source hobbyist learnt on his spare time can now be implemented in the department... Wait, I take back that statement... The poor bastard will then have to support all the other ignorant users.
"Mauricio, how do I install this flash plugin on Mozilla?"
"Mauricio, What is OOo's equivalent for MS Access? What? There is none?!"
"Mauricio, what does RTFM mean?"
Man... I don't want to be in Mauricio's shoes.
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Your forgot an important fact about Brazil: They have the coolest Culture Minister of the World!
> However I wonder how much of OSS uptake is due to the poor state a lot of world economies are in because of the World Bank?
5.5%, compounded monthly.
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Oh, I must of missed that news because the internet was down due to two massive Microsoft Windows worms. I'll be sure and tell the sendmail authors how I feel when I can finally open up my firewall to allow incoming mail again.
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Its interesting that it says "not renewing" in regards to the MS office licenses.. does that mean that until they decide to go with open source alternatives (or not), that they will be illegally using the software? Or maybe they will continue using MS products, and just not renew licenses, etc..
Just not renew licenses which, suprisingly enough, is even still legal in the U.S. despite all of the efforts to the contrary.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Chances are though that Brazillian officials are much more likely to spend their embezzled money in Brazil than Microsoft programmers are.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
A plethora of countries announce various free software and open source initiatives
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