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Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend
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."
Sorry, I meta-moderated, so I couldn't post. I would have, if I'd only known....
RHCE; are you certified? Karma: ambiguous.
The more cynical minded of us might see all these dupes as a way to get more ad revenue. More articles = more ad space to sell + more impressions = more money for Slashdot.
I'm just wondering if raping the Amazon is covered under the GPL.
Sure. Then, please editors, mark it in some way.
With a different color, with sticking a link - "Repeat of this and that", but the most importantly with an option in preferences to switch showing dupes off.
Editors can go on the way and say "uh, it's not a bug, it's a feature", but then act like as if it would be a feature! I would even be happy if they would offer the option to switch off dupes for subscribers only.
My personal opinion is that it's a bug and editors don't do enough to handle it. In my previous post i offered my help (email sent, btw).
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HA! I seem to have let my mod points expire, else i'd be modding that up :D
If you miss a day or more, look at the "Older Stuff" panel on the right of the main stories, where as I write you can see the stories posted yesterday, including Followup on MS and Brazil in NY Times. Then you can go back for as many more days as you want. It's not like "important" stories are duped to bring them to your attention, it's random.
I'm pretty tired of reading this type of defence, it holds as much merit as the "just delete it" excuse spammers use -- and I suppose my annoyance is for a similar reason, someone pushing crap I don't need at me; spammers out of malice, slashdot editors out of laziness.
I have to be really really baked to act like that. :-)
The US government also got heavily involved in
local politics in Central America when the French
failed in their attempt to build a canal. The
Columbian government wasn't interested in a canal,
or the "benefits" such a canal would "derive" to
Columbia, so the US government backed a rebel
faction. A new government and country was then
recognised, a long term contract signed, and the
canal contruction began. Thus was the birth of
the country of Panama.
Former President Carter agreed to give up the
Canal Zone, which raised his (and USA) credibility
in Latin America. It took a couple more Republican
regimes in the USA (Reagan's intervention in
Panama to arrest Noriega, and Dubya's coup attempt
in Venezuela against Chavez) to finally re-establish
the USA as the 800 pound gorilla in the Western
Hemisphere again. Not really too big a surprise that
Panama now embraces the Communist Chinese, who have
established naval facilities at both ends of the
Panama Canal, or that Brasil would want to force
out that other bastion of USA imperialism, MSFT,
the other 800 pound gorilla.
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