By Ron Coates
Published: Thursday 22 April 2004
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Name
Qaz Zaq
Location
Sao Paulo
Occupation
Engineer
Comment
Brazil to go open source? This is great news!
Considering that Brazil invests US$ 200 million/year to combat hunger, you can imagine that US$ 1 billion/year is *too* much money to be spent in software licenses.
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