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Brazil Embracing Free Software

As today's New York Times reports, no country has done more to free itself of proprietary software than Brazil. Free, open source, software means Brazil will be able to give computer access to even its poorest citizens. It also means the Brazilian people are training themselves to create and maintain their own information infrastructure, rather than becoming totally dependent on Microsoft.

Chinese Author Writes Text Message Novel

From the IHT Online:

Weighing in at a mere 4,200 words, "Out of the Fortress," is like a marriage between haiku and Hemingway, and will be published for its audience of cell phone readers at a bite-sized 70 characters at a time, including spaces and punctuation marks, in two daily installments.

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