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John Barlow Pushes Open Source in Brazil

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

greysky writes "This story on Foxnews.com reports that as part of the larger World Social Forum, Barlow spoke on how open source software can help alleviate financial problems of developing countries: "Already, Brazil spends more in licensing fees on proprietary software than it spends on hunger"." NPR talks about how Brazil plans to switch 300,000 machines over.

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  1. The problem in Brazil is not Windows... by Stormwatch · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This country has many problems. Windows is the least important of them. Our problem is one of ideas.

    All of the media (with Veja magazine as the sole exception) and the academia is terribly biased to the left, even more than in the USA, and we have no big right-wing celebrity like Rush Limbaugh to keep some balance. Most journalists are soviet era nostalgics. About every politician here is for the "social", and it's really hard to find one who defends capitalism and free trade. Our taxes are insanely high, but no one has the balls to suggest a radical tax cut like what GWB did in the USA.

    World Social Forum? A disgusting bunch of hemp-smoking teenage commie fucktards. They can't bring any solution, because the shit they have in their heads is the cause of these problems.

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