Linux Journal: Linus, We Love You: A Report from the 5th International Free Software Forum

“‘Linus, we love you. Please come to Brazil.’ With these words,
hundreds of young people, technology specialists, businessmen,
executives and members of the Brazilian government wound up their
participation in the 5th International Free Software Forum (FISL),
which took place in Porto Alegre, in Brazil’s far south, at the
beginning of June. Recorded on video by John ‘Maddog’ Hall,
president of Linux Internacional, this affectionate plea was aimed
at bringing Linus Torvalds, probably the only great figure in the
history of free software who has not yet visited the country, to
Brazil.

“And there is no lack of reasons for such a visit. Brazil is one
of the countries whose government has come out firmly in favor of
free software. The initiative includes plans to export around 2
billion USD worth of software per year; to replace Microsoft
Windows with Linux in 300,000 federal government computers; to
transfer 1 billion USD in resources from the Telecommunications
Fund (Fust) to the free software-based Digital Communications
System (SCD); and to integrate the country’s 200,000 public schools
via open-source technology…”

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