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The decision to go with Microsoft does not obligate the Chilean government to go with Microsoft, but facilitates and encourages its usage. The Chilean government structure is the host for Microsoft and its various products. Bloggers in Chile have decried the decision as being made by 40 year olds who did not grow up with technology and thus do not understand the real implications of this Microsoft decision.
There’s still a lack of English translations for a lot of this (another way of saying this is being ignored in the Anglophile tech press), but for polyglot readers, here are some updates:
Acuerdo Marco: Microsoft “lo ha hecho bien”
El 5º Poder [A HUGE list of blogger reaction from El Francotirador]
“Dang, it looks like Microsoft got the Chile account.”
- Overheard in a North Carolina bar, 5:15 pm, Friday afternoon.
Here’s a Blog round-up on the implications of the Microsoft-Chile convergence.
Smartmobs.com - It happens in Chile
Repercusiones del acuerdo Microsoft Chile
Atención a todos los amigos de Hi-Tech!
Chile is on sale! Microsoft se apodera de nuestras almas
Microsoft y Chile, Se aman por siempre
Filial chilena de Microsoft defiende acuerdo firmado con el Gobierno
El acuerdo entre Microsoft y el gobierno de Chile
Microsoft Compra, Chile se Vende
Internautas protestan por acuerdo firmado entre Microsoft y el gobierno de Chile
El día en que Chile se vendió a Microsoft
Chile y Microsoft: que mas nos puede pasar!!!
El Acuerdo entre Microsoft y Chile que está generando una revolución
In what could have been a devastating blow to the entire open source community, Roberto Moreno crashed his TUX500 project sponsored car in the first turn of the 37th lap at the Indianapolis 500. Moreno was unhurt, but his Linux/Tux-branded car was out of the race. Within seconds, so-called “jokes” were posted in the comments section at YouTube to the effect that “…when Linux crashes…it’s usually due to ‘third-party driver issues.’”
Those “jokes” then sparked a fierce debate among commenters as to the “prior art” and “obviousness” of the alleged “joke” which some had claimed to see on digg earlier. The debate soon escalated into an all-out flame war in which the primary casualty was dignity.
Two months before the motorsports/open source community tore itself apart in a spasm of self-immolating (the YouTube comments smelled like burning rubber and exhaust) mutual humiliation, redemption was already quietly and odorlessly on the prowl in Amsterdam.
Take heart open source motorheads, the C,mm,n (Common) is here! Three prototypes of the world’s first open source car were unveiled back in March by The Netherlands Society of Nature and the Environment in cooperation with the three Dutch technical universities at Delft, Eindhoven, and Twente. The C,mm,n is being designed by a community of engineers as a “mobility concept” car that will be shared (literally) among users (drivers) who join the c,mm,n community.
International racing rules and design specs will have to evolve to catch up to the c,mm,n, but as Linux/Racefans shake off their despair hangovers and try to climb back up the shame-spirals they descended on Monday, there is every reason to optimistic about the future.
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