Brazil throws Microsoft out of the windows.

Reports that Brazil has pledged to invest heavily in its own software industry in a bid to keep pace with the technological advance of the developed nations. Decision to support the open-source software movement; Plan to eliminate all Microsoft Windows operating systems from federal departments; Ser...

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Publicado en:New Internationalist no. 380; p. 7
Autor principal: Macpherson, Sholto
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Publicado: New Internationalist Jul2005
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Sumario:Reports that Brazil has pledged to invest heavily in its own software industry in a bid to keep pace with the technological advance of the developed nations. Decision to support the open-source software movement; Plan to eliminate all Microsoft Windows operating systems from federal departments; Sergio Amadeu de Silveira, president of the Government's National Institute for Information Technology, as the driving force in the initiative.