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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. Since this is a dupe... by nate+nice · · 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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  2. Re:This is just what open sauce needs. by leecn · · 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.
  3. Re:This is just what open sauce needs. by kfg · · 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

  4. Brazil FS Best Friend? Ask Miguel de Icaza by TheBoostedBrain · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  5. Re:More power to them by ppz003 · · 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.