Re:If this was not Linux or F/OSS (Score 1)

Basically they say: "If you want to switch your computers to Windows, we'll give you a free license plus give you $100 per PC to cover the cost of labor to install it.", when the labor costs about $1 per PC. Who can pass up such a deal?

One thing that's usually not factored in is Brazil (and other emerging market economies) are very nationalistic (prefer home grown vs imported). Add the cost of localization of software packages (with OSS they can do Portuguese localization themselves) and a government that realizes they can use OSS to get better/cheaper/faster economies of scale and it's not that hard to pass up a Microsoft 'deal'.