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Brazilian Government Continues Push For Free Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-a-one-and-a-two-and-a dept.

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."

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  1. Pics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some pics from the event:
    http://www.gulms.org/fotos/SL_congresso/.

  2. Re:Brazil is the oddest place on the planet by yuri82 · · Score: 5, Informative

    the country has widespread corruption, the rich people pretty much have owned it since the discovery days.

    they buy the lawmakers who pass laws that help them get richer and richer.

    in my opinion and experience the country doesnt grow because of the catholic church and what it does to poor people...

    i am from brazil btw...

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    Who is this Karma guy and why is he bad ??
  3. Re:It said FREE SOFTWARE, not open source by eliphas_levy · · Score: 5, Informative

    In portuguese, we have TWO words to mean FREE. Simply the translation doesn't help. The "software livre" and "software gratis".
    That's the catch: the original article has "livre" which means "freedom", as in speech.

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    eliphas