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Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend

Posted by timothy on from the rational-actions dept.

soneca writes "From the last two years, Brazil's president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has turned the country into a tropical outpost of the free software movement. The government is switching from costly operating systems made by Microsoft and others to free operating systems."

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  1. Free software gets a chance to prosper? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sergio Amadeu, president of Brazil's National Institute of Information Technology says "We're not going to spend taxpayers' money on a program so that Microsoft can further consolidate its monopoly. It's the government's responsibility to ensure that there is competition, and that means giving alternative software platforms a chance to prosper."

    C'mon Sergio, fess up. You *are* the one who really sends out all those "d0n't maake M1cr0soft R1ch" emails from Brazil based IPs, right?