Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend

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Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 29, 2005 @08:58PM 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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Since this is a dupe... by nate+nice · 2005-03-29 21:18 · Score: 5, Funny

... let's have a discussion on how hot round booties in Brazilian thongs are. Better than porn I argue! Seriously, if you mod this down as offtopic or whatever, you are seriously messed up. These amazing butts warrant a good discussion. What do my fellow slashdotters think of these things? I can hardly wait for summer! Shawing!!!

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1. Re:Since this is a dupe... by natrius · 2005-03-29 21:45 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  let's have a discussion on how hot round booties in Brazilian thongs are. Better than porn I argue!...I can hardly wait for summer! Shawing!!!
  
  You better check for those open sores I've been hearing all about. You want to start the summer off with a bang, not the clap.
Re:2x in one day? by BenjyD · 2005-03-29 21:29 · Score: 3, Funny

Maybe there just isn't any "News for Nerds" out there this week, hence the dupes. I mean, the technology world is so slow moving news is hard to come by. Hang on a minute, Technocrat has a load of interesting stories.
Sung to the refrain of Duke of Earl by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-29 21:29 · Score: 3, Funny

Dupe, Dupe, Dupe, (Dupe of URL!)
Dupe, Dupe, (Dupe of URL!)
Dupe, Dupe, (Dupe of URL!)

Everybody Together!
Re:This is just what open sauce needs. by leecn · 2005-03-29 21:37 · Score: 5, Funny

I'll probably get modded down for saying this, but I would rather open sauce stays out of Brazil until they clear up these little problems
I hope you do get modded down! The discussion is about free software. Keep your critique of Brazillian food out of it.
Re:This is just what open sauce needs. by kfg · 2005-03-29 21:39 · Score: 5, Funny

Dude, you make it sound like it's ok to violate essentially arbitraty "intellectual property" laws just to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of poor people.

Have you no sense of ethics?

KFG
Brazil FS Best Friend? Ask Miguel de Icaza by TheBoostedBrain · 2005-03-29 22:53 · Score: 5, Funny

I know he can tell you why Brazil is so great for FOSS Projects and developers

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Netcraft confirms it by StormyWeather · 2005-03-29 22:55 · Score: 3, Funny

Hot hot brazillian pron stars use Linux!

Netcraft

(NSFW) Mike in Brazil (NSFW)
NOT a dupe! by Linker3000 · 2005-03-30 00:08 · Score: 3, Funny

Slashdot is just implementing RAID 1

(NB: RAID = Repeat Article In about a Day)

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Re:More power to them by ppz003 · 2005-03-30 01:42 · Score: 5, Funny

The US will switch to a free OS about the same time it adopts the metric system, which according to my 1980 something encyclopedia set, should be around 1990.