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Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend
By TODD BENSON

SÃO PAULO, Brazil, March 28 - Since taking office two years ago,
President Luiz Inácio 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.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=144131&cid=12075784
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