Archive for May, 2007

Code and Culture: Brazilians celebrate the advantages of being open

olpc at fislThere is no clear consensus about the specific reasons that occasionally boost Brazil to the cutting edge of the open source revolution. For us here in the field, facing so many difficulties, ranging from simple misunderstandings to big resource constraints, the international acclaim sounds a bit exaggerated, and at times misinformed. Ever since the remarkable 2004 Wired magazine article — We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin — started the world buzz, and until quite recently, the Brazilian media was not following what was really going on. Partly because of innocent ignorance and partly because of economic and political reasons the full story was not being delivered to the mass TV audience. But now that some fruits of the first generation of “seed” ideas are starting to ripen into visibility to bigger audiences, and as principles of the ‘open’ protocol start to be tested in other sectors more and more commentators are joining in the conversation focusing on specific areas that catch their attention.

No brilhante texto de Dibbell (leia na íntegra), o ministro da Cultura, Gilberto Gil, já atacava “os fundamentalistas do controle absoluto sobre a propriedade” e o seu iminente fracasso. “Um mundo aberto pelas comunicações não pode se manter fechado em uma visão feudal de propriedade”, diz. “Nenhum país, nem os Estados Unidos, ou a Europa, pode ficar no caminho. É uma tendência global. É parte do próprio processo de civilização. É a abundância semântica do mundo moderno, do mundo pós-moderno – e não há por que resistir a isso”. Com esse pensamento compartilhado por uma parte do governo Lula e com o Fórum Internacional de Software Livre (fisl) realizado em abril pela oitava vez em Porto Alegre, o Brasil continua como um dos maiores inimigos da propriedade intelectual como a conhecemos hoje na indústria do conhecimento capitalista, como já vem sendo noticiado pelo mundo todo.
Brasil perpetua-se como inimigo número um da propriedade intelectual, por Carlos Gustavo Yoda - Blog do Turquinho

In Dibbell’s brilliant article, Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil was already challenging ‘the fundamentalists of absolute property control’ and announcing their imminent fall. ‘A world opened up by communications cannot remain closed up in a feudal vision of property’, he says. ‘No country, not the US, not Europe, can stand in the way of it. It’s a global trend. It’s part of the very process of civilization. It’s the semantic abundance of the modern world, of the postmodern world - and there’s no use in resisting it.’ With this thought shared through part of Lula’s government, and with the impetus of the International Free Software Forum (Fórum Internacional de Software Livre — FISL) happening for the eighth time at Porto Alegre in April, Brazil continues to stand out as one of the biggest enemies of the intellectual property [model] as we know it today in the capitalist entertainment industry….
Brasil perpetua-se como inimigo número um da propriedade intelectual, por Carlos Gustavo Yoda - Blog do Turquinho

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