Esto salio hoy en Boingboing: En resumen dice que Lula no quiere atender a Bill, no se si se refiere a la no atendida de Davos u a una nueva. Brazil's president doesn't care to hear Bill Gates's pitch Brazil is wiring up its favelas (shantytowns) using free software and recycled hardware, turning GNU/Linux into a serious force for sustainable development. Bill Gates is so freaked out by this that he's tried, unsuccessfully, to book a meeting with the President of Brazil, who turned him down. BRRRRRAAAAZZIIIILLLL! "We have 80 computers here, all donated by Brazilian businesses," says the project organiser, Dalton Martins. Around him, children and teenagers from the Sacadura Cabral favela are tapping away on brightly-painted keyboards. Dalton explains that open-source software is an essential to the project: partly because it drastically reduces costs; and partly because it can be modified to suit local needs. But there are signs of nerves. In January, Mr Gates unsuccessfully sought a private meeting with President Lula at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. -- <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=24672&t=1">La web sin popups ni spyware: Usa Firefox en lugar de Internet Explorer</a>
Pareciera una persona con ética, don Lula! Además de agallas, por supùesto, y buen apoyo popular... Son gestos que dan alegría, en medio de tanta ambivalencia en política. Yo mucho no entiendo de entretelones, pero esto me gustó. Saludos Diana ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sebastian Bassi" <[email protected]> To: "La lista de todos y todas en solar" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 2:23 PM Subject: [Solar-general] Brasil sigue
Esto salio hoy en Boingboing: En resumen dice que Lula no quiere atender a Bill, no se si se refiere a la no atendida de Davos u a una nueva.
Brazil's president doesn't care to hear Bill Gates's pitch
Brazil is wiring up its favelas (shantytowns) using free software and recycled hardware, turning GNU/Linux into a serious force for sustainable development. Bill Gates is so freaked out by this that he's tried, unsuccessfully, to book a meeting with the President of Brazil, who turned him down. BRRRRRAAAAZZIIIILLLL!
"We have 80 computers here, all donated by Brazilian businesses," says the project organiser, Dalton Martins. Around him, children and teenagers from the Sacadura Cabral favela are tapping away on brightly-painted keyboards.
Dalton explains that open-source software is an essential to the project: partly because it drastically reduces costs; and partly because it can be modified to suit local needs.
But there are signs of nerves. In January, Mr Gates unsuccessfully sought a private meeting with President Lula at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
-- <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=24672&t=1">La web sin popups ni spyware: Usa Firefox en lugar de Internet Explorer</a>
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