I'm from a Spanish-speaking country and multi-language support for Office behaves weirder with every release since I can remember using it. It likes defaulting to English or Spanish in a paragraph basis even when you already told it to use another default language for all documents, and it likes to do it in the middle of your writing. I believe that support for Portuguese is equally lacking. It is my hope that Brazil's investment results in better multi-language support in Open and Libre.

The thing we use to communicate rests on an infrastructure called the internet - A US Government funded Project (DARPA):-)

Even more, I've come to I feel like "the success of the Linux desktop" among government agencies or large corporations may not be even the success that free software can really benefit from.

If desktop Linux becomes a bare-bone usable thing along the joyless lines of well-written bureaucratic forms, it won't be a tool for empowering users.

It seems like free software advocates should be aiming instead to create software so people are excite to use it, in the spirit of Apple (despite Apple's hostility to free software). On the user-end of things, only programs of this quality I know are Firefox and Inkscape though I'm sure there are others. In any case, I think this is the only direction that will make free software really succeed on the level of promoting freedom.