Brazil is finally removing the restrictions on its computer market, and lifting the ban on foreign companies taking stakes in Brazilian microcomputer companies and acquiring voting rights, Agence France Presse reports from Brazilia: as it stands, the 1984 law in Brazil decreed that only 140 locally-owned firms could compete in the mini and microcomputer market until at least 1992; over the next three months the Brazilian government will be vote on opening up the market and permitting foreign companies to stake stakes in Brazilian computer firms; the proposals, approved last Thursday in the lower chamber of parliament, determines the objectives of the computer industry for the next three years.
