We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin

Wired 12.11: We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin: "'A world opened up by communications cannot remain closed up in a feudal vision of property,'" -Brazil's minister of culture, Gilberto Gil.

The more I become aware of open source issues the more I hear about Brazil; it's clearly a place to watch [10th nation in the world in terms of wealth but it's really very unequally distributed]. To get a sense of why this is a good article -it goes back to AIDS and drug patents. Quite an inspiring story in many ways.