Shortly after the Indian government announced an initiative to use open source software, Bill Gates made a trip to India in November 2002 to give $100 million to combat AIDS and to "donate" $421 million worth of proprietary software and development of same. I was heartened to find that some locals do not see the latter as a good thing; here is their plea to government officials.
Are you democrat or republican? This is a translation from French of a paper from 1995 by Régis Debray. It's an interesting commentary on French and American-style democracies.