An expert that I admire

I don't really "admire" someone like a fan, but when I found out that Brazil had the first one Free Software system for the Public Management I got surprised, because I have tried to be an user of free plataforms (open software & open hardware) since I was ten years old. So I investigate about that fact and I discovered the people who was the "pioneer" in free software solutions for the Goverments: "Marcos Mazoni".

Marcos Mazoni was one of the first public officials in Brazil who started to foster the use of free software in all areas. His work began in the Private Sector like an activist but it expanded to other areas. 

His archivments are:

• Development of the "Expresso Live", a software which offer e-mail, datebook, workflow for the Paraná Local Goverment. 
• VoIP Calls System for the same Goverment
• Paraná Digital, an initiative for the digital inclusion of many Public School.
• And many others!

I like Marcos Mazoni because I belive that knowledge sharing is the key for the future. Free Software is one of many expressions of knowledge sharing. When you sell an idea you don't share any knowledge about it, by the hand, you want to protect your assets. But when you want to share your knowledge, in this case, the knowledge about programs, the first thing you do is to build a program without protections, so anybody can understand and modify that program. On the way, people don’t have to invent the program twice and, if one person have an idea, he can use our program and make it better.