[Tech] Brasile: Lula punta sull'open source

Il governo brasiliano pare fermamente intenzionato ad abbandonare, ovunque possibile, i sistemi operativi "proprietari" (primo fra tutti Microsoft Windows) e a puntare su di una massiccia diffusione di sistemi operativi (Linux, in primis) e applicazioni open source:

Paying software licensing fees to companies like Microsoft is simply "unsustainable economically" when applications that run on the open-source Linux operating system are much cheaper, Amadeu said. Under his guidance, Silva's administration is encouraging all sectors of government to move toward open-source programs, whose basic code is public and freely available.



"We have some islands in the federal government using open-source, but we want to create a continent," said Amadeu, a former economics professor who gained fame before joining Silva's team by launching a network of free computer centers in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo.



Amadeu, who uses a Linux laptop in his office in an annex of Silva's presidential palace, authored the book "Digital Exclusion: Misery in the Information Era," which argues that the gap between the needy and the wealthy will only deepen unless the poor have easy access to the technology that the rich have at their fingertips, especially in developing countries like Brazil.

In Brasile (170 milioni di abitanti) solo il 10% circa della popolazione possiede un computer.



Fonte: Excite - AP news.