James Allchin, co-president of Microsoft’s Platforms & Services Division:
I’m not sure how the company lost sight of what matters to our customers, both business and home, the most, but in my view we lost our way. I think our teams lost sight of what bug-free means, what resilience means, what full scenarios mean, what security [...]
Nokia has just announced the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet.
Now this wouldn’t be interesting (at least for me), but the 770:
Runs Debian GNU/Linux (kernel 2.6) in an ARM processor
The user interface is GNOME based
They created an open platform called Maemo and they are encouraging maemo developers to use the GPL
The maemo platform can be seen [...]
I am in my new job now, the Lima Chamber of Commerce and it is great. I am working with my good friend Jorge, and my new boss is very open to try new solutions and Free Software. For instance, he is quite impressed by the power of regular expressions and how they can save [...]
Yesterday, Marcelo Branco closed CONEIS with an excelent talk about Free Software and his experiences in Brazil. It is amazing how everything is going in Brazil, I hope someday we can do the same in Peru. I think this was the best talk of the entire event and the students loved it, EVERYBODY wanted a [...]
I heard a great talk from Enrique Chaparro about security (he recommended python as a first language) and Lluis Sanchez about mono and monodevelop. Later I had a nice conversation with Lluis about the future of mono and gnome.
Later in the night I heard Richard Stallman’s conference about copyrights.
Today I finally gave my python [...]