Brazil goes open source

[Peter L. Peres]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Walter Dnes wrote:

> 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".

my private opinion on the us patent issue is that the world is slowly 
but surely sailing towards a second Boston Tea Party except this time it 
will be about patents, not tea. The us patents issue is simply threading 
on too many toes everywhere I look.

Peter
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