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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."
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?
Making the moon less necessary since 1998.
it is scary once again to see how slashdot is unknowingly pushing communism. something has to be done to educate commander taco and all the otehr well meaning but completly ignorant of history and economics... why is it that there are so many people who thik that because the can write some code they are now smarter than everyone else and now they get to be the new "planners" of how the world works and screw things up by interfering in the market. not too long ago it was the russian scienctists that were going to create a perfect world... commander taco and all you slashdoters... please... learn a thing or two ... stipthinking free is better... it might be.. but not when the government forces poeple .
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...).
RHCE; are you certified? Karma: ambiguous.
Shemales use only Microsoft-software.
if your flamebait gets modded up, slashdot has hit rock bottom.
More likely that US will include Brasil in the Axis-O-Evil. Praise Jeesus, the republicans, and no one else.
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.
The truth about Led Zep should never be told on
Slashdot will praise any authoritarian or socialist halfwit as long as they support free or open source software.
You want to know who isn't running Firefox 2.x? They spell it "definately" and "rediculous".
Now to get them to STOP cutting down the Rain Forest, all will be peachy. Until then, they're killing us all, slowly but surely. Idiots.
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