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Brazil has had a big-success with their free-software initiatives. Government departments are required to try to buy free-software solutions and try to find lo
by elviejo 15y ago
Brazil has had a big-success with their free-software initiatives.
Government departments are required to try to buy free-software solutions and try to find local companies that can provide support for those solutions.
Besides any contract-development goverment signs must be realeased as free-software.
They call it "software publico" (public software) since they consider a duty of the government to provide their solutions in a free-software form.
I think they are an example for any developing country economy.
- rbanffy 15y ago> I think they are an example for any developing country economy. I think developed countries also have a lot to gain from following these ideas
- rlander 15y agoToo bad it only applies to desktop software. They are still one of the top purchasers of proprietary network/server software in Brazil.
- reinhardt 15y agoReally? That's odd given that open source has been traditionally more successful in the server market than in the desktop one.
- elviejo 15y ago[citation needed] On this past month I went to a couple of conferences where they showed how they build their infraestructure and their software as a service. And seems that their commitment to software public is very real from the highest level of goverment. President Lula DaSilva was mentioned several times.
- rlander 15y agoFor 6 yers I worked as a network engineer for Cisco, primarily with the government and Serpro (Federal Data Processing Service), the biggest IT service provider in Brazil. I can tell you from first-hand experience that there's no server/networking open source focus there.