On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:03, Raj Shekhar wrote:
Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
Please sign this petition and show your support for free/GNU software. Do not forget that Code is Law ....
Can we do anything more concrete than signing a petition ?
Yes you can ... send a mail to iti.gabinete@planalto.gov.br to voice your protest.
Quoting elaine da silva:
The world's largest proprietary software company, owner of a true worldwide monopoly on operating systems is trying to repress the use of Free Software within the Brazilian Federal Government. Microsoft entered with an interpelation on the 15th of June against one of the greatest fighters against the Brazilian technological enprisionment, Sergio Amadeu da Silveira. Microsoft's demands come from an interview given by Amadeu to the "Carta Capital" magazine, in this interview Amadeu compares the ways proprietary systems vendors act with those of drug dealers where "the first shot is always for free", probably in a reference to a quote by Sun Microsystems' President (more on that later) in which it's said that with proprietary software "we are given the first verwion for free, sometimes we get addicted to it and start to pay for further updates or new products acquisition, that's why I don't see any difference between drug traffic and software traffic".
We all need to voice our opinion and make it public that we would not bow down. I would request everybody on this list to send emails to iti.gabinete@planalto.gov.br .
Thanks, Kapil Karekar