[News] Microsoft Goes to Brazil for a Coup Against GNU/Lin..

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Microsoft Takes Teachers To Brazil

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| Amid calls from local authorities to use open
| source software and cut costs, Microsoft is
| holding a teachers' conference in Brazil
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http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/microsoft-takes-teachers-to-brazil--2354


Related:

Brazil Seeks 150,000 GNU/Linux Notebooks for 300 Schools

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| It will be interesting to see who wins this contract, since it could well
| influence others looking to roll out large numbers of GNU/Linux notebooks.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/12/brazil-seeks-150000-gnulinux...tebooks


Universities that do not use Free Software: Time for a boycott?

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| I received an email recently from a young man in Brazil who wanted me to come
| to his university and talk to the students and faculty about using Free
| Software. I am normally happy to advise universities to use Free Software,
| but usually this is done in conjunction with some large conference held at
| the university or some other venue. I just do not have the time to visit each
| and every school. But I did investigate the university of the student and
| found that Microsoft was indeed a sponsor of the University. In fact, the
| university had a large banner on the front page of their web site talking
| about Microsoft as a partner. It was the first time I saw a university
| advertising a commercial firm on their home page.
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| I started doing a little more investigation of the student's city and found
| that there was another university in the same city that was very active with
| Free Software. In fact, they had a mirror of Debian software and were
| actively promoting Free Software.
|
| [...]
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| Ten years ago a boycott might not have been possible. There were too few
| universities that had access to enough really good Free Software to ask the
| students to make a "sacrifice" in forsaking a university that only used
| proprietary software to teach. Now, with the range of Free Software that is
| available, and with the marketplace crying out for new programmers trained in
| Free Software development techniques, and with many more good universities
| using Free Software to teach courses, the university "marketplace" is ready
| for the boycott.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/blogs/paw_prints_writings_of_the_...dog/uni
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