
Desejo que todos tenhamos um próspeio, sensacional, incrível e cheio de realizações ano de 2008!
"O avião PR-BRW, um Boeing 767-300, ficou um ano atravessando o Atlântico, entre Brasil e Europa, com uma pane de conversor, que não podia pegar chuva" (denúncia no O Globo)
"O modelo Open Source substitui o formalismo e a rigidez hierárquica, aliás, típicas da sociedade industrial, por uma rede social, altamente interativa e colaborativa. Não será um novo paradigma da forma de se trabalhar? Afinal, se estamos desenvolvendo artefatos da sociedade do conhecimento (software) por que adotar meios e práticas da sociedade industrial?"
Sabe aquela notícia sobre o governo nigeriano, de que teria optado pelo Windows XP em substiuição ao Mandriva Linux? Pois é, parece que voltaram atrás.
Agora surgiram informações sobre ações da Microsoft para dissuadir o uso no Linux naquele país. Segundo o próprio country manager da empresa na Nigéria, a Microsoft estaria negociando uma verda complementar a opção pelo Windows para "ações de marketing".
Estamos falando da bagatela de de $400,000, sob o pretexto de serem utilizados para divulgar o Classmate PC!
Parece que há inclusive suspeitas quanta a legalidade desta ação.Tags: Linux, Windows, Microsoft, Mandriva, Nigéria
A Apple acaba de disponibilizar o código-fonte do Darwin 9.0 (em uso no Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard).
"[I] am really for the unlockers, the rebels trying to make it free. I'd really like it to be open to new applications. I'd like to install some nice games. Why in the world can I not install a ringtone that I've made?"
(Steve Wozniak)
As informações desta pesquisa ajudarão o grupo de trabalho Linux Foundation Desktop Linux a se focar melhor nas em áreas de desenvolvimento que são importantes para você. Os resultados desta pesquisa podem ser importantes também para o seu negócio. Assim que completar a pesquisa, você verá os resultados públicos acumulados até o momento.
A pesquisa 2007 Linux Desktop/Client fará algumas perguntas relacionadas aos planos de sua empresa para desktop/cliente, não necessariamente sobre seu desktop pessoal.
Se você fornecer informações de contato ao final da pesquisa, os resultados e análise dos dados coletados serão enviados para você quando a pesquisa estiver concluída. Nota: a informação de contato não é requisito para a pesquisa e se fornecida não será publicada ou compartilhada.
"We know that Apple has destroyed the music business -- in terms of pricing -- and if we don’t take control, they’ll do the same thing on the video side," ...
"Apple sold millions of dollars worth of hardware off the back of our content and made a lot of money," ... "They did not want to share in what they were making off the hardware or allow us to adjust pricing."
(Jeff Zucker - CEO da NBC Universal)
Linux e Darwin (respectivamente os núcleos destes sistemas operacionais), bash (shell), vim (editor de textos), OpenSSH (login remoto), Apache (compartilhamento web), BIND (resolução de nomes), SAMBA/NFS (compartilhamento de arquivos), tftpd (acesso FTP), CUPS (impressão), ports (gerenciador de pacotes), etc.
Firefox, NeoOffice (OpenOffice.org), Gimp, Inkscape, Miro, Nvu, Rdc (rdesktop), VLC, etc.
-- "If the foundation is able to meet its goal of producing millions of laptops for school children around the world and they are all loaded with Linux software, then they would end up being more comfortable with those programs than with Windows" (Wayan Vota)
-- "We're spending a non-trivial amount of money on it" (Microsoft corporate vice president Will Poole)
As for new ideas, open source is the new idea of the 21st century. After decades of thinking that only way software can be valuable is if it’s hidden and proprietary, open source has shown that you can create new things faster and better. It’s an idea that’s so radical people are still trying to get their heads around the notion that you can make money by giving something away.
Nevertheless, we must continue to challenge Ballmer on both his explicit and implicit attacks on Linux and open source. If we don’t, we end up in a situation where his arguments that Linux and open-source software buyers should pay protection, excuse me, buy a Microsoft patent covenant begin to sound like the sensible, prudent thing to do. It’s not.
“So, with all due respect Steve, until you’re willing to start talking sense, and stop making empty threats, I won’t pay. I know too much about extortion.”
"It’s a technological breakthrough, for sure. Now let’s just hope it breaks through the human barriers." - David Pogue, The New York Times
"If ya can't beat 'em, sabotage 'em" - (Fake Steve Ballmer)
- As ações da Google em seu melhor nível
- Google pode estar interessada em mercado de telefonia móvel no Reino Unido
- Google planeja rede de cabos multi-terabit submarinos
- Carteira secreta de patentes da Google sugere a vinda do GPhone
- A Google pode estar interessada em seus genes
- Fundadores da Google pagam 1,3 milhão de dólares para usar aeroporto da NASA
- Biocombustíveis brasileiros chamam a atenção lá fora, de Bush a Bill Gates
- Google vai abastecer frota com energia limpa
- Why Google hired Vint Cerf
- Os talentos do Google
- Administração do Google
- ...
"... That doesn't mean that something needs to be super-complicated to install. There's a big difference between supporting really cutting-edge features—like the way we support virtualization in Ubuntu which I think makes it phenomenally easy for power users to experiment with Xen, KVM, and VMWare and get very good results. Those are very sophisticated power user features and we've worked hard on making them easy to use, easy to experiment and easy to install. "
"... Everything that doesn't work under Gobuntu is an indication of a piece of work which is needed to make the free software world more complete. I think that's a useful reference point. "
"... I think it is really important to realize that if you see yourself as being a real IT professional and you're ambitious as an IT professional, Linux offers tremendous opportunities. First, people who are very familiar with Linux are paid more than people who are only familiar with Windows or Mac. Second, this is in fact measurable...Microsoft will tell you as much—one of their arguments against Linux is that people are expensive."
"Microsoft is reported to have told partners in the memo that companies that paid the fee and voted appropriately would receive "marketing support" ("marknadsbidrag") and "additional support in the form of Microsoft resources" ("extra stöd i form av Microsoftresurser")
... The partners didn't need to worry if they didn't know anything about the specification, the memo reassured them; it provided reasons why they should vote yes."
A versão online do Jornal O Globo acaba de anunciar que o GPhone pode ser lançado em 3 de setembro de 2007, usando sistema operacional Linux feito pela Android e custará cerca de USD$ 100,00
"Will It be possibile to see mobile device with Ubuntu preinstalled?
Are you talking with hardware manufacturer?
Absolutely, we expect to see mobile devices based on Ubuntu next year."