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Brazil adopts open-source software

Increasingly, Brazil's government ministries and state-run enterprises are abandoning Windows in favour of open source / 'free' software, Steve Kingstone writes for the BBC.

Open source-based software proves to be ideal for developing nations, partly because it drastically reduces costs, and partly because it can be modified to suit local needs, the author argues.
We thus see, once again, how the open source model for R&D and innovation becomes not only a matter of preference, choice or taste — but in many cases a matter of need, viability and survival!
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