Brazil`s change to open source

after hearing the podcast. it appears to be about Brazil's changing from Microsoft software, which Brazil has to pay for, which Brazil has already paid 1 billion dollars to the Microsoft industry already and in order do save the country money, Brazil has decided to change to open source, which is in a Linux system. because of this the country of Brazil is going to save billions of dollars in the future by having made this change from Microsoft software. i also learned from the podcast that Microsoft has 90 percent control over the software industry in the world. i think Brazil change to open source is a good idea and more countries should do the same. Microsoft has to much control over the software industry in the world. i like open source myself and hopefully in the future as Linux gets more user friendly it will become the dominant software used in the world. this way companies like Microsoft would have to lower their prices in the products they sell, so that it makes them more affordable to people of lower income if they choose it. unlike right now were we have to pay over a hundred dollars if we want to stay updated every time Microsoft creates a new software system.

Brazils change to open source

after hearing the podcast, it appears to be about Brazil's change from Microsoft software, which they have to pay for, which Brazil has all ready paid 1 billion dollars to the Microsoft industry already, and in order to save the country money. Brazil has decided to change to open source, which is in a Linux system, and this is going to save the country billions of dollars in the future. having made the change from Microsoft software. I also learned from the podcast that it that Microsoft has 90 percent control over the software industry in the world. i think Brazil's change to open source is a good idea and more countries should do same. Microsoft has to much control over the software industry over the world. i like open source my self and hopefully in the future as Linux gets more user friendly it would be the dominant software used in the world. this way companies like Microsoft would have to lower their price in the products they sell. and make it more affordable to the lower income people to obtain Microsoft software if they choose it. unlike right now were we have to pay over a hundred dollars if we want to stay updated every time Microsoft creates a new software system. open source should already  be the dominant software used all over the world.
 

open source licensing

from: Daniel Ledesma
To:     Cathy House
October 14 2011

Dear Cathy
Regarding the use of open source and how its licensing works. i have research how the licensing of open source works, by browsing the web and reading guides and blogs on the matter. it appears that in order to license open source we must follow the FSF`s guidelines, which state that the best way in licensing open source we must use COPYLEFT, which is a general method used for making a program free and modified and extended versions of it must also be free. the distribution terms are found in the GNU general public license and under this terms we must add two elements to our open source. one a copyright notice ( copyright 2011 daniel ledesma ) and two a statement of copying permissions,  the statements of should look like the example below.

   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.