Brazil: the hearth of FOSS

Posted by bstadil on Jul 11, 2005 6:00 PM EDT
Open for business Blog; By Omar Tazi
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One of the first developing countries to clearly stand behind OSS was Brazil. For the last five years Brazil’s government lead by President Lula is abandoning proprietary software (mainly Windows) in favor of OSS. The National Institute for Information Technology estimates a $500 saving in software for every machine owned/operated by the government which saves Brazil overall $150M a year

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