i remember the 88% inflation/month
On 4/3/08, Felipe Fonseca <felipefonseca@???> wrote:
> :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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