Immensely useful context regarding the shift in posture from Lula to his hand-picked successor, Dima Rousseff. When I saw her inaugural speech, I was cheered by her declaration, loud, clear, and welcomed by all there, that the future lay in, and that the government would promote ICT development. Given the history of the Lula regime's advocacy of open source, via Gilberto Gil's expansive vision and actions, I had the notion that this meant more not less endorsement of open source.
I was wrong. It seems really to have meant: Let's bring back neoliberalism and make our country a yet better market for big multinationals operating without real concern for local markets; and lets close the door to open knowledge, open technologies, open source.
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