[Ecommerce] Brazil Gives Nod to Open Source. I WIPO loosing it's grip?

[Jeff Williams]

All,

  It seems that WIPO's contention against open source is loosing
further global acceptance.  Is WIPO loosing it's grip?

See:http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,61257,00.html?tw=wn_techhead_12

Associated Press  Page 1 of 1
10:07 AM Nov. 16, 2003 PT

BRASILIA, Brazil -- If he is to make good on his promise to
improve life for the tens of millions of Brazilians who live in dire
poverty, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva knows that one key
challenge is to bridge a massive technology gap. And if that means
shunning Microsoft software in South America's largest country,
then so be it.

Silva's top technology officer wants to transform the land of samba
and Carnival into a tech-savvy nation where everyone from
schoolchildren to government bureaucrats uses open-source
software instead of costly Windows products.

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