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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Bill Gates is resonably excluded.

[twitter]

Microsoft is free to compete in the open source arena just like everyone else.

Sure they are, but I would not give a shell account to Bill Gates..

It could be much worse for Microsoft

[Kris_J]

A little over ten years ago Brazil officially had "a strict policy regulated the internal market, protecting the local IT industry by imposing many restrictions on importing goods from abroad similar to those produced domestically." This was very good for local technology firms. It also resulted in a huge number of pirate video games within Brazil, all perfectly legal there. It was encouraged to remove these restrictions and sign on to the popular view of copyrights and software of the time. If I were running a "small" country, I'd be having a good look at the health of Brazil's computing industry then compared to now.

Copyright has been a fun experiment, but perhaps it's time to declare it a failure and move on.

Re:Microsoft = freedom??

[saden1]

Brazil had the freedom to make a choice and that is "freedom and choice" is all about. Is I take it that Microsoft is now going to run and cry to US Senators and Congressmen.