Yes.. geographically.

It's a island.

2011 was a good year to dictators... what else can be said?

But I'm Picard!! - reporting bug.

Do they keep it?

I wouldn't be so admired if at the end of the line we could find an unknowingly Google plus an unwittingly Apple.

Most european countries can fine facebook if they want.

mod this up, please.

I build on Linux and run it with .net on Windows when needed.
And yes, sometimes they run better on Windows, but the opposite also happens a lot.

As an opensource user I must agree with you.

Addiction is one thing, habituation is another thing.

This government don't want to spend money in education, is cutting everything, from class hours to teachers, 30 thousand will be fired over the next two years.

They just found that primary sector is the way... and it might be, with all the resources, from ore to fishing.

But the ugly truth is that they don't want to buy new computers, and by doing so, they are just saying this as a show off.

Microsoft Portugal at the end of the day won't notice a glitch with their money flow, in fact, most of computers have double license. (OEM from manufacturers and Volume Licensing from MS.)

Also, lot of schools already use Linux.