[luau] News - Peru President to meet with Gates

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Sun Jul 14 00:49:01 PDT 2002


http://news.com.com/2100-1001-943635.html?tag=fd_top

"Peru's President Alejandro Toledo will travel to Seattle this weekend for
talks with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates during which he will sign accords
to support his Huascaran Internet-for-schools project."
(continued in article)

He will "sign accords" with Bill Gates.  This sounds too much like signing
of a pact with the leader of a powerful country.

(Imperial March plays quietly in the background.  I wonder if LucasArts can
sue.)

Meanwhile, let's see what happens to Peru Congress legislation that would
mandate Open Software for government use.

 Peruvian Congressman vs. Microsoft FUD
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/06/1739244&mode=thread&tid=109
 Complete Background of this Peru congress bill
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-05-20-006-26-IN-LF-PB




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