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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. 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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