How this affects OOo is not necessarily obvious. But a simple account is that if under Lula there was an open door, and even an invitation to open source and to the communities enabling and supporting them, under his successor and more to the point, under the new Minister of Culture, the approach has quite changed. Gilberto Gil, the former minister, understood the benefits--cultural, social, economic--of open source; if Juca Ferreira does, that is not evident at all, at least not in any positive way.
The result is--or could be, absent actual and effective protests by those most affected by the shift in posture, is that the resistance to open source is that much stronger, and the resurgence of neoliberalism shamelessly enabled.
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