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BR-Linux - International Edition (2265 words) |
 | Government-issued laptops for kids are increasingly being offered by international organizations and corporations as a viable shortcut to help bridge the digital divide in developing countries, and the brazilian government wants to start paving this shortcut as soon as possible. |
| According to ComputerWorld (portuguese only), a government official stated that this international procurement process was chosen in order to let every interested organization do their bidding. |
| The local Linux community has been issuing alerts and suggestions about the situation since the first accounts of insufficiently configured computers being sold, because of the obvious negative implications that these events can have, specially on brazilian mainstream media. |
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