[OLPC-DE] manche haben es begriffen... (Fwd: Windows in Brazil Costs 20% of Per Capita Business Income)

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

zwei Nachrichten:

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Subject: Windows in Brazil Costs 20% of Per Capita Business Income
Date: Saturday 03 May 2008 23:42
From: Slashdot <help at slashdot.org>

mjasay writes "Ever wonder why open source is so popular in Brazil and other
 BRIC nations? As one study suggests, one big reason may well be Microsoft's
 punitive pricing, which exceeds 20 percent of Gross National Income for
 businesses in Brazil (and 7.8 percent of consumer GNI). This leads to a
 second, related reason: At those prices, there's little hope that Brazil can
 build a home-grown software economy on the foundation of proprietary
 software. This factor is exacerbated by Brazil's widespread disdain for the
 United States, which also tends to favor software that is not perceived as
 American. Of late the free and open-source Brazilian dream may be fading a
 little but its importance to the long-term growth prospects of the Brazilian
 economy shouldn't be understated."

URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/282831065/article.pl

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und 

http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/04/deploying-kde-to-52-million-young.html

(In summary: KDE on Linux has stepped up to become the software platform in 
the primary school education system in Brazil. That may sound like a bold 
claim, but the numbers are staggering and speak for themselves:

By the end of this year 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students will be 
fully deployed and in active use.

By the end of next year (2009) those numbers will have swelled to 53,000 labs 
serving some 52,000,000 students.)



Ohne weitere Worte, es ist spät :-)

Gruß,
	Holger
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