John Barlow Pushes Open Source in Brazil

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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Embarrasing glitch?

[Ziviyr]

For Microsoft.

An MS OS was found hiding out in a free software zone. The first hint was when it crashed in an obvious and spectacular fashion. The offending machine was then escorted out of the buliding, replaced with a more capable machine, no further software errors reported.