Living together BUT not married: RR/MC and Linux

[David Bovill]

On 21 Nov 2005, at 16:56, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Charles Hartman wrote:
>
>>> Maybe only 1-2% of your typical desktop customers will be using   
>>> linux - but I personally would not be using Revolution without  
>>> good  Linux support for the reasons above.
>>>
>>>
>> And the Brazilian government's policy is worth keeping in mind,  
>> and  watching as a plausible trend.
>>
>
> What is that policy?

Basically they insist on open source solutions for Government  
contracts - also very big supporters of open content (Creative  
Commons) with Gliberto Gil (Minister of Culture and renowned  
musician) being largely responsible for getting Creative Commons to  
add the sampling license to their suite of licenses.

I must confess I do not know the details in Brasil - anyone? But here  
in Europe out of the last 4 government contracts for projects two  
virtually insisted on open source and the other two looked on them  
favourably. The forthcoming EU IST5 call I am helping with is no  
exception.