Re: [ox-en] gilberto gil
- From: Graham Seaman <graham seul.org>
- Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 17:07:27 -0400 (EDT)
replying to my own posts again...
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Graham Seaman wrote:
(I'll try to do some translating as things come out as well, it's knowing
what the best thing to do with the translations is that's the problem)
All that's been published so far that I've seen is on
http://www.softwarelivre.org (links down right of page). As I translated
the opening speech I thought I'd do the closing one as well; it's quite
short but has a couple of interesting points.
Graham
Translation: Graham Seaman. Items in square brackets added by translator.
[Source:
http://www.softwarelivre.org/index.php?menu=mais_noticias2&cod=1061482652&tab=1]
Closing Speech of Senator Jose' Sarney
21-8-2003 13:17:32
The following is the complete speech of Senator Jose' Sarney closing
the 'Week of Free Software in the Legislature', read by Senator Serys
Siherassenko. Senator Sarney will be the honorary president of the
'Parliamentary Front for the defense of Free Software', which already includes
more than 130 Congressmen and 18 Senators.
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Today we are closing the Free Software Week and the seminar 'Free Software
and Development in Brazil'. The success of this week is an affirmation of the
vitality of computing in Brazil, and a great personal satisfaction: I feel,
therefore, amply compensated for having supported it.
The importance of this event is strategic, it is the taking of a position in
respect to free software by the various spheres of the state. Brazil has
decided that the public sector will consider open programs as an
alternative which must be fully used and stimulated, both in its economic,
and above all, conceptual aspects. Its adoption is important for us to
discover routes to cultural independence, creation, national identity.
From now on whenever computing spreads the idea will have to be taken into
consideration that programming languages must be public, developed by the
users as a whole, and not the domain of international monopolies. On this
route a fundamental step is that of education. I believe that, as professor
Stallman suggests, our children must learn the basics of programming, in
open languages, in such a way that they take part in its evolution and can
maintain their independence.
In the legislature we have tried to advance in the use of free software.
We have a great number of users of Interlegis [http://www.br.undp.org/ict/bra98010a.htm, main interlegis site currently unavailable], and our Prodasen
has exchanged programs with Cenin, from the House of Representatives.
That House gave us, for example, a program for control of quotas and we
gave them a program for control of inheritance [?]; they returned an
inproved version of the web module to us.
This year we, in Prodasen, are going to begin using the Open Office
program, a set of applications - word processor, spread sheet, database
etc - for general use. If everythinng goes well we hope that next year we
will see it installed throughout the Senate, a change of the greatest
importance which which certainly serve as an example for wide areas of
the public services.
The Parliamentary Front for Free Software is emerging from these discussions;
it is already an influential group, which will incorporate the concern to
support open systems in debates in our legislative arm, making our independence
in the computing sector possible.
I would like to thank everyone for their support and collaboration.
The Seminar on Free Software and the Development of Brazil is closed.
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