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Followup on MS and Brazil in NY Times

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-read dept.

putko was one of dozens to submit a story running on the NY Times about Open Source and Brazil. The choice quote is "We're not going to spend taxpayers' money on a program so that Microsoft can further consolidate its monopoly..."

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  1. About that quote... by Noryungi · · Score: 4, Funny


    One word: Ouch.

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  2. HEH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    HEH, why do they assume it wil be use for power....MS could use it for other things too
    - killing small animals
    - searching for the lost city of gold
    - etc

  3. I love Brazil! by IdleTime · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not only do they have the hottest women in the world, but they have a government with a working brain too!

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  4. If this is the Brazil I remember by murderlegendre · · Score: 4, Funny

    Robert DeNiro will rappel into your living room and install a Linux machine, then set up your internet connection, while discussing the problems with Microsoft. That would so rock.

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  5. Yet... by inertia187 · · Score: 3, Funny

    We're not going to spend taxpayers' money on a program so that Microsoft can further consolidate its monopoly..."

    Yet they use Word grammar check.

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  6. New Slogan for Brazil and Linux by sgant · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just thought it up, though others may have done the same...sort of a take on Apple's "1984" commercial:

    In 2005 the country of Brazil will start using Linux as it's prefered operating system and you'll see why Brazil won't be like Brazil

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  7. Who's minding the coop??? by advocate_one · · Score: 3, Funny

    If, as everyone expects, Ballmer's off to South Korea to get them back in line, then who's off to Brasil to sort them out??? at this rate, the Microsoft Anti-OSS Emergency Response team will be maxed out rushing all over the place... no one will be left minding the shop back in the good ole US of A... time for you lot to get your congress critters off their backsides and supporting the OSS camp...

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  8. Re:commodities by clambake · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's really amazing how we(Americans) take broadband for granted now. I don't see how I could go back to using dialup; it would seem like cruel and unusual punishment.

    You think you've got it bad... I live in Japan... in fear. In TERROR. One day, I will have to return to America, and I fear that day... the day when I will no longer have a 100Mbit fiber-optic line directly from the CO into my machine.

  9. Re:Let Brazil join the EU! by mattyrobinson69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That would be bad - how the hell are england supposed to win the european cup with brazil in the UEFA group?

    seriously though: YEAH!!!

  10. Re:What a load... by the_bard17 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine the howls of rage from the tinfoil hatted, middle-class, Slashdot Geek if the government were to back with all it's power a standard Linux distro for everyone.

    Howl with rage? I think not. I might celebrate, then I might cringe with the bewildering cries of "What's Linux?"

    Now if they forced me to use a specific distro... then I might "howl with rage."

  11. Re:Have to say . . . by 2old2rockNroll · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would go into the classroom and help out on Fridays, sometimes showing the kids how to make PowerPoint presentations.

    Ye gods, what's the fun in being a kid anymore?

    Mommy, Mommy! Daddy taught us how to make deadly boring bullet points today!