As the head of Brazil's Information Technology Institute, Sergio Amadeu puts it, "...If every one of them had to pay 100 reales for their desktop software then we'll be sending 1700 million reales (US$600 million) to pay for licenses. Without free software it's impossible to have a significant policy of digital inclusiveness."

"...The advocates of "free" trade, and neoliberalism in general, argue that it creates wealth. That is true--but it also concentrates wealth. The result is that only the rich benefit. The poor gain little; they may even lose, as has happened in the US. Free software is different, because it works against the concentration of wealth. (Copyright is a major factor for concentration.) So when free software creates more wealth, the benefits are general."