Yet the Brazilian government releases little of its own code publicly. I'm still waiting for the ballot machine code. Brazilian government's relation with open

Yet the Brazilian government releases little of its own code publicly. I'm still waiting for the ballot machine code. Brazilian government's relation with open technology is such a weird thing. Lula and Dilma government were huge sponsors of free software conferences like FISL, with several ministries and agencies with huge booths and whatnot - but most of their actual technical side was just "we use libre office or Zimbra or whatever". All talk, no action. One thing that specially made me angry was the lack of commitment with open data. The post office was eager to sponsor conferences, but kept zip code data under lock and key, only allowing a CAPTCHAd query tool for people, and selling API access to companies for huge prices. This was actually only fixed... during the right wing governments that followed (can't remember if Temer or Bolsonaro).