-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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... > > - -- "This is UNIX country. //=\ Tommy Tovbin if you listen carefully, \=// you can hear //=\ tovbin at niisi dot msk dot ru Windows reboot..." \=// http://m1.sm.bmstu.ru -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE/xMFgYrHu8lMSp6ERApEyAKCHw1Y6jm3QNm11Y5CRmHRiAJKUrACfZciY VefgNGN+SrsyOyD3UVTg7D0= =Tnyy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
