The brazilian Election Supreme Court officialy announced at April 4th 2008, that the 2008 elections at Brazil will use GNU / Linux electronic voting machines with software digital authentication.
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motters
16 years 26 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago
Free software is democratic
Another nail in the coffin for Steve Ballmer's idea of open source as a form of communism.
Balzac
16 years 26 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago
Free Software does have a democratizing effect.
Democracy and Communism are not mutually exclusive. The idea that communism is the opposite of democracy is the result of a lot of propaganda which seeks to convince us that un-regulated Capitalism is the only economic policy a true Democracy can ever have.
Democracy and totalitarianism are mutually exclusive, so totalitarian communism is un-Democratic.
On the other hand, Democratic Socialism is a democratic victory for a set of economic policies - socialism.