While I don't speak Portuguese and I do appreciate living in a wealthy country, I started feeling yesterday that I should be living in Brazil. There is a strong free culture movement there, and they actually see the value in limiting IP extremism and in using free software. The value is that they stop exporting millions of dollars to countries like the USA.
Europe's not bad, but they're having trouble seeing that software patents are likely to do more harm than good for their economy. And they're bowing to pressure to extend copyright terms yet again. Canada may be the best of the first world countries, but I sometimes wonder if they have enough people like Michael Geist to stand up to the extremism.
Oh well... back to my little life in a country that I do love, despite its trek down a dangerous path.
