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Brazil Moves Away From Microsoft

Posted by timothy on from the all-vagueness-so-far dept.

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..."

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  1. are brazilians sand-niggers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    as a proud Westerner, I hate sand niggers

    we should build consentration camps and gas them all.

  2. Who Cares??!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Really...some third world ass-backwards country moves away from Microsoft, and it's three cheers for Brazil??!!

    How about cheering when that Country stops it's corruption, and drug cartels, and kidnappings, and desperate poverty?

    You geeks really have a warped view of the world!

  3. Good and bad... by Fux+the+Penguin · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I keep seeing stories on slashdot about foreign countries either moving away from MS towards open-source, or being coerced/bribed by MS to stay in their camp. So, what do you think stories like this mean for the U.S. economy?

    On the one hand, it's great for Brazil, and the the Brazilian IT market. In general, it takes more highly trained (and more expensive) IT workers to manage a Linux infrastructure. However, that's money they could be sending into the U.S. in terms of software licenses, which would then trickle down to the rest of us.

    Don't get me wrong...I love Linux, and I use it for many home-grown applications. However, in this time of economic uncertainty, I'd rather see money flowing into the U.S., even if it winds up with MS.

    1. Re:Good and bad... by ScrewMaster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      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.
  4. I fail it by Cowboy.Neal.Uses.Win · · Score: -1, Flamebait



    Why would anyone want to use linux?

  5. Re:DO NOT CLICK LINK GROSS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You must be new here. welcome to slashdot. How's the new AOL account workin' out for ya.

  6. Re:Attitude indeed by IM6100 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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
  7. Re:I'm getting sick of these stories by burdicda · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why don't you troll up and get a login so we can
    fucking ignore your posts loser...LOL

  8. Re:Well written? Well understood? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's "case IN point," you retard.

  9. "Mac Bride?" It's McBride by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    God, it's only a name posted daily around here. Learn to fucking spell it next time you try to be cute and "funny" like that. You made yourself out to be a complete moron.

  10. YOU FUCKING IDIOTS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is an obvious troll. A cut-and-paste troll at that. Those of you attempting to engage in rational debate or saying things like "obviously you're not a REAL business consultant!!!11!!!!!!eleven" are living proof that Linux users are all buttfucking faggots.