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Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of New York Times
New York Times, March 29, 2005
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/29/technology/29computer.html...
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/29/technology/29computer.html...
Since taking office two years ago, President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva has turned Brazil into a tropical outpost of the free software movement. Looking to save millions of dollars in royalties and licensing fees, Mr. da Silva has instructed government ministries and state-run companies to gradually switch from costly operating systems made by Microsoft and others to free operating systems, like Linux. On Mr. da Silva's watch, Brazil has also become the first country to require any company or research institute that receives government financing to develop software to license it as open-source, meaning the underlying software code must be free to all.
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