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."

Comments

This is just what open sauce needs.

[King_of_Prussia]

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I hope nothing under the GPL is being used, as Brazil has a pretty sketchy record of recognising intellectual property rights.

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 realise the slashdot groupthink says it's ok to disrespect intellectual property as long as it's not the GPL being broken -- but how much of the code they intend to use is under the GPL, and how long will it be before it ends up in unauthorised programs?

Re:Wonderful! So, let's kill the spammers already!

[Bad Boy Marty]

Actually, a death sentence wouldn't be so bad for spammers. It *would* guarantee that they stop (except that all the machines that they p0wn would continue ad nauseum...).

Re:Do their woodchip mills run linux or bsd?

[conteXXt]

That's OpenBSD.

From the OpenBSD cvs:
Software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.