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Brazil Moves Away From Microsoft
An anonymous reader writes "Citing economic as well as social reasons, Brazil's government is opting to move away from Windows, opting instead for Open Source (read: Linux) solutions. Interestingly, Microsoft's representative in Brazil decries this as a movement away from freedom and choice..."
Within a few years Linux may be the 'free software that sucks' in computer labs around the world. Kids will go home and tell dad what NOT to get.
A Good Intro to NetBS
Why don't you troll up and get a login so we can
fucking ignore your posts loser...LOL
Mind you the US version of the global economy seems to think that everyone else should play by the rules except the US.
You got modded +5 Insightful? Remarkable. You should learn a little history, my friend, and perhaps a little economic theory. The biggest, most powerful economies make the rules. This is what having "power" means, and furthermore has been the way of the world for centuries. It is just sour grapes when less-successful economic powers sit back and complain that "hey, you don't play fair." Tough. We don't owe you any special consideration, and if we were any less fair we'd have emulated the British Imperial phase and annexed you already. Get with the program and compete with us, beat us at our own game, like the Japanese did. Never heard a peep from the Japanese about the "unfairness" of American economic policy. They just got off their collective ass and competed with us. They took what we gave them after World War II and ran with it, and in many respects put our own industries to shame. You're entitled to your opinion (well, you are if you live in the States) but America has played more fairly in the economic game, for a longer time, than anyone else in the world. We run a HUGE trade deficit with China to our own detriment, we pay usurious rates for petroleum to that criminal cartel, no, that's too mild a word, how about gang, known as "OPEC", we give trillions of dollars in foreign aid to two-bit semi-civilized nations that just haven't figured out how to get out of the Dark Ages, and you say that we don't play fair? Spare me. I dislike Microsoft intensely but to criticize the entire United States because of the actions of a single corporation is ludicrous. If you really want us to be fair, we can go back to our pre-World War II isolationism and let the rest of you go to Hell in your own way. And given the eternally bloodthirsty manner in which Europe and the Middle East manage their affairs I'm sure that won't take very long.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.