I don't think Lula (president of brazil) is supporting FOSS so much. That is more propaganda. Anyway, I'm brazilian and I develop OSS and I have no support from governament. But yes, windows license are too expensive for us here. I'm one gnu/linux user because of it. Average people here wins from R$300-500/month. They cannot afford for windows+office license that coasts over R$1000...
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I don't think Lula (president of brazil) is supporting FOSS so much. That is more propaganda.
Anyway, I'm brazilian and I develop OSS and I have no support from governament.
But yes, windows license are too expensive for us here. I'm one gnu/linux user because of it.
Average people here wins from R$300-500/month. They cannot afford for windows+office license that coasts over R$1000...