We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin

tres3 writes "Wired magazine has an excellent four page article discussing Brazil's new approach to Intellectual Property rights. It discusses everything from battling with the international pharmaceutical industries, to song sampling, to the national adoption of Linux. Richard Stallman stated that India's political commitment to free software is second only to Brazil's after attending a weeklong free software teach-in for members of the Brazilian national congress, where 161 out of 594 members of congress, from a broad range of parties, had signed up with the free software caucus - making it one of the largest caucuses in the Brazilian government."

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Now if only they could get inexpensive hardware

[John Harrison]

Recent reports have Brazil as the world's #1 hardware pirate nation, due to high tarrifs. Maybe the software caucus should get together and do something about the taxes on hardware which raise the cost of a system by 50%. You thought the MS tax was bad...

Gotta wonder...

[pjrc]

... if Julian Dibbell, author of this long winded article, is somehow realated to John Katz ?