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eks
10-30-2004, 09:52 PM
actually, i don´t think is THAT off-topic, movies, games and art are intelectual property. and this is an excellent article anyways:

Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin (Wired magazine 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/linux.html
We pledge allegiance to the penguin, and the intellectual property
regime for which he stands. One nation, under Linux, with free music
and open-source software for all. Welcome to Brazil! By Julian Dibbell
from Wired magazine.
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Jhonus
10-31-2004, 01:11 AM
woah, brazil rocks. cheers for posting that eks, really good article

"Every license for Office plus Windows in Brazil - a country in which 22 million people are starving - means we have to export 60 sacks of soybeans," says Marcelo D'Elia Branco, coordinator of the country's Free Software Project and liaison between the open source community and the national government, now headed by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. "For the right to use one copy of Office plus Windows for one year or a year and a half, until the next upgrade, we have to till the earth, plant, harvest, and export to the international markets that much soy. When I explain this to farmers, they go nuts."
percydaman
10-31-2004, 01:28 AM
wow, give it a generation or two, and brazil will be filled with Linux supermen!
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