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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. Zero Hunger by jpatokal · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    ...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.

  2. That's pretty slow... by LouisvilleDebugger · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    >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.