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New Free O'Reilly Ebook: 'Open Source In Brazil' (oreilly.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the software-in-South-America dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Andy Oram, who's been an editor at O'Reilly since 1992, has written a new free report about how open source software is everywhere in Brazil. The country's IT industry is booming in Brazil -- still Latin America's most vibrant economy -- with open source software popular in both startups and in cloud infrastructure. Oram attributes this partly to the government's support of open source software, which over the last 15 years has built public awareness about its power and potential. And says the Brazil now has a thriving open source community, and several free software movements. Even small towns have hacker spaces for collaboration and training, and the country has several free software movements.

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  1. Re:Not really "free". by fredan · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's the link: http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/files/open-source-in-brazil.pdf or http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/files/open-source-in-brazil.mobi or http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/files/open-source-in-brazil.epub

    Source: https://gist.github.com/dotevo/66a3320598ac38a64072ec56f9633e8e

  2. Re:Laguage by Anonymice · · Score: 2

    I'm British, living & working in Brazil.

    The programming language's syntax never changes, however user defined objects & classes will often be in the regional language. That said, it's not uncommon to find English used where there's a well known standardised name for a function.

    For technology in general, even when translations happen to exist, English language documentation & community support tends to be of a far higher quality & up-to-date. The result is that some terms are translated into the local language, and others not. This creates a bit of a minefield when trying to guess whether to use the English terminology or translated terminology when communicating with colleagues, there isn't always a standard of which to use & it can differ from person to person.

  3. MS to the "rescue" again by markdavis · · Score: 2

    Looks like Microsoft is up to their old tricks and maybe O'Reilly didn't publish fast enough:

    https://fossbytes.com/brazil-r...

    http://www.zdnet.com/article/b...

    They have to work really hard to step in and mess things up for countries trying to break free (or for those who DID break free) from proprietary MS products. Brazil has a lot of corruption, so this seems to fit right in :(