
É lobby, inconsistência técnica, é crise ética, moral, é o escambau!
Também concordo com a opinião simples e direta do Christiano Anderson.
Referência: Formato Microsoft OOXML. Problemas com as especificações?
"... 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."
Microsoft vem obtendo sucesso em fraturar a comunidade Linux e open source através de acordos de proteção firmados com importante fornecedores, foi o que disse Mark Shuttlework, líder do Ubuntu e CEO da Canonical, ao eWEEK.
Michael Wesch, professor assistente de Antropologia Cultural da Universidade do Texas, explora "o impacto das novas mídias na interação humana."
Ele também faz vídeos sensacionais.
Este é chamado "The Machine is Us/ing Us." (em uma tradução livre: A máquina 'somos nós/nos utiliza')
Há outras coisas fantásticas em mediatedcultures.net.
"Ferramenta Oficial para o iPhone deixaria MacGyver orgulhoso
Aqui está a nova ferramenta oficial da Apple para consertos no iPhone, fornecida com instruções de uso. Aparentemente você receberá uma se enviar seu iPhnoe para o AppleCare.
Certamente alguém da área de projetos da Apple deve estar assistindo bastante a MacGyver."
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Fonte: Gizmodo
"Well-known CIO John Halamka has rigorously tested six different operating systems over the course of a year in an effort to find a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows on his laptop and his company's computers. Here is CIO.com's initial writeup on Halamka's experiences; we discussed their followup article on SUSE. Now CIO is running a writeup on Halamka's take on Ubuntu and how it stacks up against Novell SUSE 10, RHEL, Fedora, XP, and Mac OS X, in a life-and-death business environment."