Fedora - A Step Forward or Backward?

Tommy Tovbin tovbin at niisi.msk.ru
Wed Nov 26 15:06:05 UTC 2003


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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Alexandre Strube wrote:

> Em Ter, 2003-11-25 Юs 15:10, Elton Woo escreveu:
> 
> More than 80% of Brazilian market uses pirated software. This is
> changing, in fact it was much worse, but there is a long way for
> legalization for pirated soft, before open source can be seriously
> commented. Why use a open-source software when the paid one (say
> autocad, corel, office) is free also?
Not so long way as you think... In Russia, for example, this way are 
almost done, and should be noted then MS and other commercial 
products was pirated and evreyone can buy it. However, many people have 
a lot of interesting  of open-source software and don't care about pirated 
soft, because open-source is wonderfull world and interesting 
international community.
(Sorry for my English)


> 
> However, brazilian government has considered open-source software a
> priority. They don't want to pay licenses anymore - they prefer to pay
> for training and produce local knowledge (which would employ brazilians
> inspite of half dozen MS programmers). This can be a GREAT opportunity
> for everyone which works with linux...
> 
> 

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