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| Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend | Posted by 187
Tuesday, March 29 @ 05:26:49 EST |  marcogotenet writes "By TODD BENSON (New York Times)
S?O PAULO, Brazil, March 28 - Since taking office two years ago, President Luiz In?cio 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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