:P
I guess in 2004 there has been a seminar in brasilian
congress about free software, and the leader was José Sarney,
the ex-president about whom I could write a very long
e-mail - to summarize it, he was the vice-president
elected in the first semi-direct elections. The elected
presidend died before being able to start working.
Sarney was able to remain in power for one extra year
after distributing THOUSANDS of broadcast concessions
to politicians. Because of that, even today a lot of
- I was about to write 'most', but I'm not that sure -
congressmen have their own radio and tv stations, what
helps them to be perpetually re-elected. Another story
of Sarney is that even his family owning the local
TV Globo repeater, he had to move his political domicile
to other state in order to get elected. And many many
other evil stuff. That same man was leading the congress
free software event. It makes a lot of sense for that
kind of politician - spend less money, claim they are
"supporting national industry". And, well, for them it
makes no difference, as most don't use computers at all.
efe
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:37:54 +0200, <bronac@???> wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> Just to keep you up to speed with UK politics - if interested see
>
> http://www.nesta.org.uk/
>
> David Cameron's speech from earlier this morning is worth listening to
> to hear how open source goes conservative - among other things he was
> expounding
> the virtues of Linux....
>
> best
> Bronac
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