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	<title><![CDATA[Free Linux Software Bridges Brazil's Digital Divide]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-ehrmann/free-linux-software-bridg_b_221910.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Fifty million Brazilian students will have Christmas in July when software Santa slips down the chimney to give them a free ticket on the information highway.</p>

<p>With Microsoft software licenses costing up to 1000 percent more in Brazil than in the US, the <em>ProInfo </em>program launched by the government of president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reduces <a href="http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/why-brazil-loves-linux">dependence on costly foreign software</a> just as the sugar ethanol program for cars reduces dependence on expensive foreign oil. <a href="http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/02/now-brazil-goes-big-on-gnulinux-desktop.html"> The program</a>,...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2009-06-29T11:52:00-04:00</date_published>
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