That sounds horrifying. Although also completely predictable and expected, but I didn't know that in Brazil it had reached that level. Isn't Lula supposed to do something about it? Back in his first presidency (I was in Brazil back then), Linux was becoming the main OS.
Although the usual 2 party system ensures that the next government would destroy everything, so I imagine all the open source effort was demolished and it can't keep being rebuilt from scratch every 4 years, when the next government return everything to microsoft.
Anyway, I sent you a message because I have personal interest in the issue. Thanks for the useful but horrifying information.
Nope, it's because of the "common sense" as in "everyone who doesn't know what I know is stupid".
From talking to other people, I believe my knowledge of colors and light is considerably higher than normal, but I would never think someone lacks "common sense" (which reads to me that they are stupid) for not knowing these things.
In fact when I show people how some colors are not visibly reflected on different wavelengths, and they seem interested, it makes me happy. I don't expect them to know that, but the fact that they are curious and interested shows they are willing to learn, and that is nice.
But comments like these makes people not want to learn.