Em Ter, 2003-11-25 às 15:10, Elton Woo escreveu: > > are being donated by the thousands to schools and non-profits who can't > > even afford computers let alone proprietary software to use on them. > Excellent point. Even some 20 years later, the promise of a computer in > every home is yet to become a reality. > Some countries like India, and Brazil have been producing very low-cost > machines which are linux-based. Wish it would be.. There is one or two companies which ship linux on their systems here in Brazil.... Besides that, there is the big guys, which has different interest on linux, like ibm. 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? 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... -- []s Alexandre Ganso 500 FOUR vermelha - Diretor Steel Goose Moto Group
