SOPA Act - Dictatorship in the network - Stop SOUP
The law SOUP (Stop Online Piracy Act) will cause some of the great battles on the net because if it goes ahead, will destroy the Internet as we know it. The network of networks will be besieged and tied to a version of Homeland Security but online. Translated: Violation of legal rights, serious threat to freedom of expression, negative impact on many businesses and websites that host content for users, fear of publication, to review, threat to open source software, invasion of privacy, impact negative about DNS, DNSSEC and Internet security and all this, NOT USED TO STOP PIRACY.
To stop piracy, which can not be stopped completely, you have to do is change the distribution facilities and eliminate as many intermediaries between the product and the end user to adapt to new technologies as there is a global crisis, which not forgive. Content producers have to lower their prices, make the product available at a reasonable price as to put in digital download format is eliminated costs and still earn good money, even a lot and we rejoice. But they can still maintain an artificial, absurd prices for a record or book, even charge about the same as a film for which they have required 300 or 500 people depending on which and users will have to understand that not all may be free but people are also working to create and live like them and they will pay those prices "affordable" because then put the creator and that has been left hours and hours of your working life you lose the desire to continue creating for others. Is that also includes, no?
However, the output is not set up a dictatorship in the network. In December 2011, the writer of comics and movies Steve Niles spoke against the law SOUP commenting, "The law does more than SOUP pursue so-called" pirate sites "... SOUP law prevents any due process, turning any room that appears to be in contradiction with the law, without notice, without a trial ... Nobody seems to care a shit (sic), or even cause a little apprehension. From any point of view, it is very disappointing. I guess when it affects them will be angry ... I know people are afraid to talk because many of us work for these companies, but we have to fight. Too much is at stake. "
Wikipedia, WordPress, Mozilla and many others have started their protests today. Google has only a small note under the searches at the moment ... This just started, it's scary and of course, is NOT a game.
Vazquez Lisset Meizoso
This October has started with mournful news. The death of Steve Jobs he now joins the death-last-weekend of Rithcie MacAlistair Dennis , co-creator of the Unix operating system and father of the C programming language
This engineer graduate in physics and mathematics at the University of Harvard helped design and development of this system with Brian Wilson Kernighan, and contribute to the creation of the programming language C.
As announced in Google + one of the team members of Computing Science Research Group at Bell Laboratories which developed the Unix operating system, Robert Pike, Dennis Ritchie died last weekend, victim of a long illness.
Rob Pike said about Ritchie, through Google's social network, which "confident that there are people who appreciate the extent of his contributions and his death cry properly." And is that "the world has lost a truly great mind," he concluded.
Turning Ritchie was awarded in 1983 by the generic operating systems theory and the National Medal of Technology in the U.S. in 1998. In 2007 when this computer was finally retired, after being head of systems software research at Alcatel-Lucent.
Big East programming, died as he lived, quiet, discreet, like most true geniuses.
I arrive a few days late to wish you bon voyage, Dennis, but here I am.
Thank you for your legacy.
Lisset Meizoso Vazquez.
International Conference on Free Software and Public Administration in Badajoz
In a year when everything that smacks of international conference in the field of free software brings mixed feelings, FUNDECYT (Foundation for Science and Technology in Extremadura) precisely organized an event called "Open Source World Conference and Public Administration) .
The event, held in Badajoz 1 and December 2 is promoted by the European project OSEPA (Open Source Software Usage by European Public Administrations) , and will be attended by Miguel Jaque CENATIC, among many other personalities of the world Free Software, as co-ASOLIF, or our always admired Michelangelo Amutio, head of the Planning and Exploitation of the Directorate General for the promotion of e-Government, Ministry of the Presidency.
The conference was attended by delegations from European public institutions (municipalities, federations of municipalities, universities, etc..) Of at least twelve EU member countries, plus regional and national institutions and organizations promoting free software.
If you wish, you can present your project HERE Osepa Conference and anyway you are welcome to participate.
Original news web OSEPA
Today has been filed with the media in Madrid, at the headquarters of red.es, the Guide to Good Practice for Free Bid Developments by Local Government. This is the first product generated in the environment Alial project, whose aim is that local hire, use, sharing and reuse free solutions based on the technical conditions of tendering them.
In the text have been present Sebastián Muriel Smith, CEO of red.es (public company under the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society, Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade), Pablo Gomez, President of ASOLIF (National Federation of Software Libre) and Miguel Jaque, Managing Director of CENATIC (National Center for the Application of ICT-based Open Source).
The expected result is to improve the current dynamics of technology procurement by the Spanish councils, to ensure it is technically, legally and procedurally feasible to share their solutions and thus help to improve the efficiency of their investments in technology.
- The aim is that local hire, use and share free solutions based on the technical conditions of tendering them.
- This guide is the first of the products generated in the project environment Alial, and is available for download:
Read the highlights of what was said by those present, and download the Guide to Good Practice for Free Bid Developments by HERE Local Government.
Source: CENATIC
The open source advocates today celebrated a festival to encourage the use of free software, which have a public code and can be copied, modified and distributed without restriction.
More than 500 teams of people from 120 countries have organized events around the world to celebrate this September 20 International Day of Free Software. The commemoration has been held since 2004 to honor those who develop programs and open systems, to promote their use and knowledge and to promote dialogue on rights in the information society, digital inclusion and transparency in the selection of software.
As reported today 20minutos.es, free software are defined by giving its users four basic powers, says the Free Knowledge Foundation. It is free to use the program for any purpose, to examine how it works and adapt it to their needs (access to source code is a precondition) to redistribute copies so you may help others, and to improve the program and to make public improvements, so that the whole community benefits. The free nature of the programs is not indispensable, although many are associated with this type of software. Among the free programs available on the network are, for example, three Internet browsers: Firefox, Chrome, Google's new product, and Opera.
Openbravo Launches QuickStart for quick implementation of ERP systems on free software
- New processes, reporting and configuration wizards streamline operations -
Barcelona (Spain) and Boston (Massachusetts), September 9, 2010. Openbravo , the leading company in developing ERP solutions based open source Web environment, announced the launch of a new version of Openbravo QuickStart, a solution of rapid ERP implementation, designed to meet the needs of SMEs.
QuickStart 2 builds on the proven success of its predecessor to provide optimized implementations of standard core business processes from order to payment, from purchasing to payment reconciliation reports and bank accounts. Its price, based on a subscription model, and its implementation in the cloud facilitate SMEs access to the fundamental advantages of the integrated management of companies (the automation and optimization of the processes of accounting, sales orders, inventory and procurement ) without the high costs and the lengthy implementation periods of traditional systems.
This new solution further reduces implementation times for businesses through its configuration wizards, pre-configured processes and improved the management of the charts of accounts, making and receiving of payments or the recording and reporting of sales and taxes.
QuickStart 2 also incorporates the new module for advanced management of accounts receivable and accounts payable of Openbravo, a complete payment management system equipped with a more user-friendly interface that provides a clear view of the cah-flow and automates and controls the payment processing and bank reconciliation.
Manel Sarasa, CEO of Openbravo , said: "In this economy, companies must act quickly and provide quality financial reporting. Openbravo QuickStart 2 gives small and medium enterprises with a solution fast implementation and easy to adapt, use and update. This new offering puts the cash flow of vital importance for any business, as an important matter, and has financial structures and processes that are ready to use them accessible to businesses all critical business information they need. "
MADRID, Sep. 10 (Portaltic / EP)
Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, the company that owns WordPress until recently, the brand has announced that WordPress has been transferred to the nonprofit foundation of the same name, thus ensuring the continuity of the project no matter who is in command in the company.
The foundation is dedicated to promoting and ensuring access to WordPress and related open source projects that may arise, in perpetuity, which means that the most important piece of the identity of WordPress, his name is now completely independent of any .
"The brand WordPress has grown tremendously in the last 5 years and it is rare to see a for-profit company to donate one of their most valuable assets and give control. However, I know in my heart that this is true for the entire WordPress community that has supported me in this decision. It was not easy, but things worthwhile seldom are, "said Mullenweg in his blog.
Mullenweg also wanted to "recognize and applaud" the value and "vision" of the board of Automattic, investors and lawyers who have made this assignment.
Openbravo: web-based ERP solution for small and medium enterprises
Openbravo ERP solution in a web environment for small and medium enterprises has exceeded 1.7 million downloads. During the first half of 2010, the monthly number of new downloads have increased significantly, to accumulate a 320 percent increase in just five months.
It has also seen a strong increase in demand Openbravo Professional Edition, the commercial version of Openbravo ERP solution that enables small and medium enterprises have a lower cost of the benefits of this solution in Free Software, such as unique functionality , professional support, guarantees and access to updates and improvements certified. The modules and extensions of the ERP solution, available through Openbravo Exchange (marketplace solutions and services for production environments, designed as extensions of Openbravo ERP), have also registered a notable increase. Currently has 160 different modules, 40 percent more than in early 2010. Some of the most popular solutions for industries such as hotel management and fashion as well as functional extensions for management of sales or transactions "inter-company."
The Centre of Excellence for Free Software Castilla-La Mancha has published a Workshop on Migration Guide to Free Software (PDF) , which proposes a comprehensive methodology for companies, users and systems professionals to migrate to free software which also includes several case examples of migration on SMEs with different needs.
It provides answers to key questions such as:
- What are the advantages of Free Software?
- How is migration?
- What is the cost of the process?
It explains step by step the migration process from planning to final realization. It offers advice and solutions to common problems, utilities proposing to carry out the migration successfully.
The case examples of migration in this guide represent prototypes of companies for which details the internal structure, business process and system of information they present, and the steps to perform migration properly.
Guadalinex V7, faster and more sociable
The Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Science Government of Andalusia publishes the final version of Guadalinex V7, the free operating system that includes dozens of applications to take advantage of the computer without investing in expensive licenses.
Thirty percent faster than its predecessors, this new edition of Guadalinex improves user experience on the Internet, facilitating connection with social networks and the publication of "blogs". In addition to the typical programs to surf, write email or chat, with the new parental control system "Nanny"-developed by the Andalusian, who assist parents in protecting minors to web content malicious or inappropriate.
Moreover, the graphic look has been carefully Guadalinex especially from the funds to the rounded windows, now-a lively bar of icons to launch frequently used applications, automatically disappear to make room on the desktop.
