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We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin

Posted by michael on from the loyalty-oath dept.

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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  1. Poll Troll Toll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What's better...

    Lunix
    Windows
    Brazilian national congress
    Free software caucus
    putting your caucus in a mare

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  2. Good for them, not so good for us by davesplace1 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm all for free software and cheap drugs, but we still need to respect the copyrights and patients of the developers.

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  3. Microsoft's response by FerretFrottage · · Score: -1, Troll

    Longhorn's timezone map will no longer include Bra{z|s}il. Instead, Bra{z|s}il will no be moved to Antarctica and be foreced to use that TZ. In the area of SA formerly occupied by Bra{z|s}il, will now exist a DRM province which will headquarter the RIAA and MPAA.

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  4. Re:Pinguin = Fatter wallet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sure its cheaper if you're just a leech who just burns the ISOs when they are released. Some of us actually pay for our distributions and that coupled with the extra time it takes to get customized functionality will put a Linux install on par with Windows install cost wise.

  5. Minus 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Very distracting to d7ing. Everyone Can no longer be If you answered other members in us the courtesy platform for the to place a paper

  6. Re:That's GNU/Linux, you insensitive clod! by Brandybuck · · Score: 1, Troll

    What about showing some respect to Linus Torvalds, who actually managed to write a kernel instead of spending ten years griping about names.

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  7. Did anyone else notice... by Trails · · Score: 0, Troll

    Holy crap, the guy from Milli Vanelli is leading their Open Source movement! Or maybe he's just faking it.

  8. Re:I have to wonder, though by Slime-dogg · · Score: 0, Troll

    Property, yes. Intellectual? Well, that's debatable.

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