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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. NYT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    TACO FUCKS PIGS

    Fuck Taco in the ass with a big rubber dick!

  2. Brazil? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Isn't that where there are a lot of guys that look like chicks?

  3. Bankrupt?... by Himring · · Score: -1, Troll

    Brazil, weren't they, like, the first ever government, democracy, something to go bankrupt a couple of years ago?...

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  4. Cool country by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    All women have nice asses. Smart president.

    What kind of country is this?

    (Hint: not U.S.)

  5. Re:NYT article. by westlake · · Score: 0, Troll
    And if the president's top technology adviser gets his way, the program may end up offering computers with only free software, including the operating system, handpicked by the government instead of giving consumers the option of paying more for, say, a basic edition of Microsoft Windows

    Isn't it strange, for all the talk of an anarchic, libertarian, freedom on Slashdot, that it is a paternalistic government's choice of O/S and software for the poor that is being applauded here? That the masses cannot be allowed to make their own choices, because their choices might include Microsoft?

  6. Re:What a load... by N3WBI3 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Except that Dell already competes with R$1400 computers... This is about the government making a decision for people it has no place making..

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  7. Re:Have to say . . . by g0hare · · Score: 0, Troll

    Benefitting anyone but Americans sucks. I'd rather destroy my old computers than let somebody in another country get it and learn how to take my job. /I don't really mean this but it seems like a lot of people I know do....

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  8. Re:NYT article. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Forty percent of all people know that.

    That was funny about a hundred years ago.

  9. Re:What a load... by westlake · · Score: 0, Troll
    The *government* are not the masses. They choose to opt for a cheaper solution, whats the problem?

    The Ministry wants to government-stamp a Linux distribution for the poor.
    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.

  10. Re:The load is your own. by N3WBI3 · · Score: -1, Troll
    Does Dell allow you to pay over 24 months? No, I didn't think so.

    Your right you did not think. How about you leek at dells site first! they do allow payments over 24 months you pantload...

    Is the Brazillian government forcing people to buy these cheap computers?

    Did I say had a problem with them doing oss? no you turd, I said going w/ oss give no more benefit to the poor than going with windows!

    It's not the USA and American principles don't reign supreme everywhere, much to the chagrin of people like you.

    Yea we have to wait until someone starts a world war, save their ass and then they like us for about 40 years..

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  11. Re:What a load... by N3WBI3 · · Score: 0, Troll
    And so what? The poor people will still find a computer they can afford.

    So long as we realize this is a socialist grab, with nothing more to do that give a handout to brazilian pc manufactures..

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  12. OSS needs government edicts to compete because... by I'm+Don+Giovanni · · Score: 0, Troll

    it can't compete on merit.
    Sad that.

    If OSS is so great, why do you need government mandates to compete? In the future, history books will write about OSS taking over the software industry thru government mandate, and you guys look upon that as some kind of vindicaton for your ideology? What a joke! LOL

    You do understand that government's ultimate enforcement mechanism is the barrel of a gun, don't you? That's the ultimate way that laws are enforced. So, OSS takes over the world at gunpoint. Sounds like "freedom" (as in speech) to me - NOT.

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