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..."

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Zero Hunger

[jpatokal]

...and before the ObTrolls start yelling about Third World governments putting money into newfangled computers instead of feeding their own people, don't worry, Brazil's working on that too. (In case you don't read Portuguese, here's an article about the 'Hunger Zero' program in English.

Cheers,
-j.

That's pretty slow...

[LouisvilleDebugger]

>IBM last year helped one of Brazil's largest fast
>food chains, Habib's, install a Linux system that
>lets customers order by phone for home delivery
>within 28 minutes.

What are they running that thing on, a 486SX25?

Il y a une horloge qui ne sonne pas.

Viva La France!!!

[j33px0r]

First it was the Rainforest, Now its Microsoft!

God Save the Queen!!!!

Re:Microsoft = freedom??

[Steve Franklin]

It all depends on how big her boobs are. No this is not off topic. Just think about it with your itty bitty little brain for a couple of weeks and you might get it.

enslaved. Another product of the American educational system, no doubt.

Re:plagiarism

[gl4ss]

only on slashdot...

that joke is relevant to the subject at hand, even if it is old and rehashed.

and it's not like it was karmawhoring anyways(ac), UNLIKE YOU!

if something needs to be modded offtopic, lame ass comment it's me and you, not the actual joke.