gvw@etive.ed.ac.uk (MOBY) (11/24/88)
= In article <78752@sun.uucp> rburns%master@Sun.COM (Randy Burns) writes:
= There has been much talk in how the Brazilian
= government has made it a national policy to
= develop a local computer industry.
=
= I suggest that Brazil develop its computer industry
= using another means:National Site Licensing. Brazil
= should license the rights to manufacture a
= representative range of computer products, and software
= from the top vendors of these products.
=
= This approach could actually enable Brazil to leap to the
= forefront of industrial nations. It could also develop a
= sophisticated computer market where none now exists. It is
= an opportunity which should not be passed up.
This ignores *why* the Brazilians want to develop their own computer industry.
They do not just want computers, they want to build up the scientific/
technical infrastructure required to design new electronic components
and machines indigenously. Becoming a fabrication site for Northern
designs will not produce a new generation of electronic engineers, nor
the entrepreneurial skills required to deal in the world market.
Greg