Whatever happened to Diebold's brazilian Linux distro of choice?
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| According to brazilian magazine Convergência Digital, the Ministry of
| communication intended to buy 5400 Linux-running PCs from local hardware
| sellers, for use in many (planned) new ?Telecentros?, public offices,
| offered by the federal, state or local government and similar to internet
| cafes, where citizens who can?t or won?t afford their own computers and
| connectivity may use the government provided PCs (mostly using open source
| software) and public internet connections to search and surf the web, run
| office applications or educational softwares.
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http://br-linux.org/brazil/?p=3
Related:
E-Voting Raises New Questions in Brazil
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| Some Brazilians are lobbying the tribunal to switch from Windows CE to
| an open-source operating system for the voting machines, since Microsoft
| Corp., citing trade secrecy, won't allow independent audits to make
| sure malicious programmers haven't inserted commands to "flip" votes
| from one candidate to another.
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| Fontoura confirmed that Brazil is considering a move away from
| crosoft's proprietary code -- "We are studying the possibility of using an
| open-source program like Linux in future elections. This would make the
| entire process much more transparent and far less expensive," he said.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060929/brazil_electronic_voting.html?.v=2
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