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To: yard_man who wrote (21585)	1/17/2005 8:38:30 PM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 116555

If I did not read every link I would have no clues sometimes. Please tell us what you are posting folks: Microsoft's Gates Wants Meeting with Brazil's Lula Microsoft Corp. is lobbying Brazil's government to agree to a meeting between the company's chairman, Bill Gates, and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the World Economic Forum next week, a Brazilian official said. The country has taken prominent role in the so-called free software movement, an effort that champions free computer operating systems like Linux as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows program. Tired of paying costly licensing fees to companies like Microsoft, Brazil, the world's eighth-most wired nation, has told agencies in its sprawling federal bureaucracy to move to Linux and free software programs that run on it. This year, the government will try to get private citizens to make the switch. It will partially subsidize the purchase for lower middle-class people of 1 million computers running Linux along with 25 other open source programs. Worried about growing HIV infection rates in the late 1990s and the cost of treating them, Cardoso's administration threatened to break patents on anti-AIDS drugs unless multinational drug companies cut prices. The strategy worked. more here: reuters.com