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Opinion on Brazil making Open Source mandatory in governmentOpinion on Brazil making Open Source mandatory in governmentPosted Jun 14, 2003 13:22 UTC (Sat) by iksrazal (guest, #5184)Parent article: Opinion on Brazil making Open Source mandatory in government As someone who is a software engineer for the Brazillian government, I feel compelled to reply. Open source is widely used and discussed as an option in almost every reguard. Yet virtually all server-based apps are run on solaris. In most cases you can choose to run linux on the desktop - some even choose bsd. Open source development tools such as eclipse are fastly becoming standard for even those running Windows. However, proprietary software has many staunch supporters. All the managers run Windows. Though Crossover demonstrations has raised some eyebrows, none I have seen have 'crossed over.' Support contracts with IBM mean using their tools such as Websphere instead of JBoss, though tomcat is used sometimes. Java is pretty open for a closed standard, but still not open source. Often tools such as PVCS revision control somehow have strong allies. That all said, I have a hard time taking this announcement seriously. 1) There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. That %20 will be a very wide %20. Still, I believe a far more powerful element for software livre is the developers themselves. Its 'legal' (kool), and has a lot of enthusiasm that is growing rapidly. In the last six months alone I've seen a lot of converts. As a side note, the whole SCO affair has zero visibility here. Not a single person has mentioned it and the media has completly ignored it. Software livre ou morte!
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