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自2003年正式就任以来,巴西总统卢拉·达席尔瓦已经带领巴西成为了自由软件运动的热土和前沿阵地。为了节约数以百万美元计的版权软件许可费用,巴西总统卢拉已指示巴西政府部门及国有企业逐步使用自由操作系统如linux,取代成本高昂的微软等操作系统。在卢拉的领导下,巴西已率先要求,凡是接受政府资金支持开发软件的公司或研究机构必须许可开放源代码,这在全球范围内也属于首次。现在的巴西政府正泰然自若地上演自由软件大战。而同时,微软的终结似乎再次近在眼前。
Since the official assumption of office in 2003, Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has led Brazil as a hotbed and forefront of the free software movement. In order to save millions of dollars in copyright software licensing fees, Brazilian President Lula has instructed the Brazilian government and state-owned enterprises to gradually use a free operating system such as linux, to replace costly Microsoft and other operating systems. Under Lula’s leadership, Brazil has taken the lead in requiring that any company or research institute that receives government funding to develop software must license open source, the first of its kind worldwide. The current Brazilian government is staging a freelance software battle. At the same time, Microsoft’s end seems to be at hand again.