[LUAU] NewsForge - Hawaii now has its own open source conference

[Jim Thompson]

Michael Bishop wrote:
> Daniel just sent me this link:
> 
> http://business.newsforge.com/business/05/01/27/2318248.shtml?tid=18&tid=138&tid=2&tid=132



/. pointed to this today
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,145827,00.html

     John Barlow, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, told a gathering
     inside a packed warehouse that poor nations can't solve their
     problems unless they stop paying expensive software licensing
     fees.

     Open source software includes programs that are not controlled
     by a single company. The software can be developed by anyone,
     with few restrictions. The best known such software is the Linux
     operating system, which can be downloaded free from the
     Internet.

     "Already, Brazil spends more in licensing fees on proprietary
     software than it spends on hunger," said Barlow, co-founder of
     the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a cyberspace civil liberties
     group.

something quite similar was on page 2 (I think it was page 2) of the 
Honolulu Star Bulletin yesterday.

NPR as a story on the switch:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4471963

"Bill Gates wants to meet with Brazil's president to discuss the change."

I'll bet.

Lessig has couple reports on the scene in Brazil:
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002411.shtml
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002400.shtml