Brazil goes open source
Peter L. Peres
plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Tue Feb 1 09:38:58 UTC 2005
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Ilya Palagin wrote:
> Quoting Henry Spencer <henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org>:
>
>> Passed along by a friend:
>>
>> <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4471963> says:
>>
>> Morning Edition, January 31, 2005 · The government of Brazil says it
>> will switch 300,000 government computers from Microsoft's Windows
>> operating system to open source software like Linux. Microsoft founder
>> Bill Gates wants to meet with Brazil's president to discuss the
>> change. Brazil is dropping all proprietary software.
>
> I remember they had a failed attempt to move schools to Linux. Looks
> like this
> time they decided to pass the point of no-return. For those who want to know
> what Gate will say, see "Things to say when you're losing a technical
> argument":
> http://www.skirsch.com/humor/techarg.htm
> :-)
Why is it that arguments thoroughly lost on the technical side can still
be won by the borg side using 'political' arguments ?
Peter
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