Brazil goes open source

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:24:44PM -0500, Henry Spencer wrote

> Microsoft founder Bill Gates wants to meet with Brazil's president
> to discuss the change.

  MS is running a "World FUD Tour".  In addition to going to meet
Brazil's president, MS has...

  - Ballmer in Asia, with a New Joisey accent... duh... nice country
    youse got here.  Youse wouldn't want something terrible to happen
    to it like patent lawsuits.  If youse just uses Microsoft products
    you'll have protection against lawsuits.

  - http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050130080116688
    Another reader wrote to his MEP in Ireland, Avril Doyle, and the
    communication he got back from a staffer told him that Gates will be
    visiting the EU Parliament on February 1, next Tuesday, to meet with
    a "select group" of MEPs on the issue of software patents and "other
    issues".

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