Cuba byter till open source
HAVANA (AP) -- Cuba's communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least one capitalist empire - Microsoft Corp. - by joining with socialist Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source software.
Both governments say they are trying to wean state agencies from Microsoft's proprietary Windows to the open-source Linux operating system, which is developed by a global community of programmers who freely share their code.
"It's basically a problem of technological sovereignty, a problem of ideology," said Hector Rodriguez, who oversees a Cuban university department of 1,000 students dedicated to developing open-source programs.
Källa: Wired
Är det länder som Cuba som ska driva utvecklingen av open-source mjukvara framåt? Även om jag inte kan ställa mig bakom Cubas alla anledningar till att byta från Windows till Linux, som att Microsoft är i allians med den amerikanska försvarsmakten, och även fast jag verkligen inte delar deras kommunistiska ideologier så välkomnar jag sådana här nyheter eftersom att jag hoppas att det driver utvecklingen av Linux (och programvara för Linux) framåt.
[...] but the biggest splash at the conference was made by a paunchy, wild-haired man in a T-shirt: Richard Stallman, whose Free Software Foundation created the license used by many open-source programs, including Linux.
Middle-aged communist bureaucrats and ponytailed young Cuban programmers applauded as the computer scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [...]
Richard Stallman is such an attention whore
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
