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March 18, 2005

MIT Backs Brazil's Free Software Over Microsoft

Sounds like Firefox might be part of the solution for Brazil.

"We advocate using high quality free software as opposed to scaled-down versions of more costly proprietary software," Walter Bender, director of the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in a letter to the Brazilian government. "Free software is far better on the dimensions of cost, power, and quality."

 

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MIT Backs Brazil's Free Software Over Microsoft

Posted on March 18, 2005 12:26 AM by Free S87.
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