Brazzil.com: No Tears Shed for Windows in Brazil

"The 1st National Free Software Meeting for Municipalities got underway August 23 in Rio das Ostras, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The purpose of the event is to show what can be accomplished through the use of free software (FS) like the operation system Linux and digital inclusion.

"170 thousand public schools in Brazil possess computers. Of these, 20 thousand have informatics spaces, but only 9 thousand are connected to the Internet..."

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