The project that gave birth to the Software Livre Brasil was Software Livre RS, at http://www.softwarelivre.org , and announced in the end of the IV FISL (Miguel de Icaza was there:) ).
This is a great thing; it's our money that was used to buy proprietary software; now it will be used to invest in our knowledge.
And to all guys who are saying this isn't a good thing: f*ck you! You are all envious! HAHAHA!
Chess has many restrictive rules; in a 8x8 board, you have "just a few" moves you can make. In other hand, Go has a 19x19 board; you don't move the stones, you put them anywhere in the board. You can play chess really well with a brute-force algorithm - even to compete with the strongest chess players in the world. And Go? The (probably) strongest Go program in the world it's only about 15-20 Kyu, and take a lot of time for each move (for those who don't know, the levels for players go from 30 Kyu (lowest) to 1 Kyu, and then 1 Dan to 10 Dan (strongest)). You can't brute-force a Go game, there are too many possibilities, even on a 9x9 beginner-board.
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I prefer using Desktop Architect + WinXP icons.
You can always use Real Alternative
The project that gave birth to the Software Livre Brasil was Software Livre RS, at http://www.softwarelivre.org , and announced in the end of the IV FISL (Miguel de Icaza was there :) ).
This is a great thing; it's our money that was used to buy proprietary software; now it will be used to invest in our knowledge.
And to all guys who are saying this isn't a good thing: f*ck you! You are all envious! HAHAHA!
and those conflicts are fomented by the all mighty Uncle Sam. Go read a little of history, jerk.
If you can do that much, imagine a cluster of printers, programmed in PS to do something else than... print.
Are we using the wrong tools (such as C) which do not provide the facilities necessary to write safe software?
There is NO language that can avoid stupidity.
Chess has many restrictive rules; in a 8x8 board, you have "just a few" moves you can make. In other hand, Go has a 19x19 board; you don't move the stones, you put them anywhere in the board.
You can play chess really well with a brute-force algorithm - even to compete with the strongest chess players in the world.
And Go? The (probably) strongest Go program in the world it's only about 15-20 Kyu, and take a lot of time for each move (for those who don't know, the levels for players go from 30 Kyu (lowest) to 1 Kyu, and then 1 Dan to 10 Dan (strongest)). You can't brute-force a Go game, there are too many possibilities, even on a 9x9 beginner-board.