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IBM, Brazilian Government Launch Linux Effort
chriscooper1470 writes "Here is an update to the Brazilian Government Continues Push for Free Software. Brazil has become the latest country this week to show its support for Linux. Following moves by the UK and Russia, the government of Brazil announced Friday that it has signed a letter of intent with IBM pledging to develop initiatives that will promote the use of Linux in the Latin American country."
is, given that we are seeing lots of governments adopting or considering adopting F/OSS, how long before document and data interchange in its current form (read: MS Office) becomes enough of a hassle that consumers and businesses will demand software that conforms to open data interchange standards?
I am brazilian and I am glad to read that but even without the reading we can notice that the Gov. is increasing their support for Linux. I have already installed and configured several servers for brazilian's governament departaments and this is increasing more and more.
We are an under development country but some deveopled contry should learn a little from us.
The metric system, while more consistent than the English system of measurement, is far from being the best possible system. Planck units are more "scientific" and both base-6 and base-12 systems are better for counting than base ten. If you really want to tilt at windmills, why not try to get the U.S. to adopt Planck units scaled to a power of twelve? It would be better in many ways than SI, and might even appeal to Americans' desire to be first :)
Actually, I have to sort of agree with this post. The last few versions of Mandrake and RH I've tried do seem to be a bit bloated. I was forced to install Win2K on a machine and it seems lean and mean in comparison. Of course, it's 3 years old, and compared with Linux from 3 years ago, it was probably bloatware.