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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Re:I'm not a fan of Clinton but....

[ninewands]

Quoth the poster:
"Work on improving the economy and hunger will take care of itself."

Thank you President Reagan.

"As for Brazil, they really, really need to work on establishing a viable middle class."

Like the one that the current US administration is industriously seeking to destroy?

"The situation right now looks like a validation of marxist idiot-ology."

Ooooo -- we've been listening to Rush and watching O'Reilly recently, have we?

Fact ... the US spends $400 billion a year on the Department of Defense ... more than 10 times what our largest-spending potential adversary spends ... $20 billion (just 5% of the Defense budget) would eliminate hunger in the world. $10 billion (that's 2.5%) would rebuild all the substandard schools in the US. Watch this for the details.

Of course solving social problems doesn't QUITE give the same testosterone rush as wearing flight suits on carrier flight decks, so it isn't going to fly with this empero^H^H^H^H^H^Hpresident.