FSFLA frees Brazilian tax software
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| The FSFLA, the Latin American sister organization of the Free
| Software Foundation, is claiming a last-minute victory in Brazil
| in its struggle to remove the requirement to use non-free software
| for filing taxes online.
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http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/05/11/1813251&from=rss
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Brazil Schoolchildren To Get $100 Laptop PCs
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| President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday received a version
| of a $100 laptop computer to be distributed nationwide, and 50 were
| expected to be tested in Brazilian schools beginning next week.
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http://www.tbo.com/news/nationworld/MGBL1G1JXUE.html
EnabledPeople & partners deploys 50,000 Linux desktops in Brazil January 6
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| BitWay Computadores, Imtech Brazil and EnabledPeople launch
| massive deployments of Linux PCs with preinstalled Linux XP
| Desktop software for Brazil goverment program
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http://www.enabledpeople.com/blog/2007/01/06/bitway-imtech-enabledpeople-had-deployed-about-50000-linux-desktops-in-brazil-since-september-2006/
http://tinyurl.com/yfy37p
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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| [...]
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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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