I recommend you watching the movie "The Take" by Naomi Klein (http://www.thetake.org/). It was filmed in my homeland, Argentina, and it is about the "recovered" factories in my country.
When some factories went broke their employees decided to take the factories and run them by themselves, in a cooperative fashion.
Some factories of this sort have now legally obtained the rights to actually own the factories, in change for some debt the companies had with them, and are actually very successful businesses.
Hope you like it... I really recommend it
I live in Argentina and the only news I've seen about this was a very very early article in the moderate left wing newspaper "Pagina/12" www.pagina12.com.ar
I don't have the link but, anyway, it was very early.
I think that if there hasn't been any news it's probably because it's still on an early stage.
I really don't understand why M$ would want to develop such a tool. I guess they want OTHER people to share stuff, NOT them, of course. Its reasonable that the Creative Commons staff would want it to make it easier for people to creativcommonize their documents, but really, supporting a plugin for Office XP and 2003 doesn't actually cope much with the open philosophy.
At least they don't ask you to validate your windows version, that would be really funny.
I guess it would have been more reasonable if they did such a tool for OpenOffice, or another open office suite, I think that it would be much more usefull than making one such "uncompatible"...
Quoting from the M$ download site:
Microsoft Office productivity applications are the most widely used personal productivity applications in the world, and Microsoft's goal is to enhance the user's experience with those applications. Empowering Microsoft Office users to express their intentions through Creative Commons licenses is another way Microsoft enables users around the world to exercise their creative freedom while being clear about the rights granted to users of a creative work. In the past, it has not always been easy or obvious to understand the intentions of some authors or artists regarding distribution or use of their intellectual creations.
It seems to me that that is the biggest load of lies I've ever heard. It's nearly as missleading as the healthy McDonald's trash.
"Microsoft enables users around the world to exercise their creative freedom"
Creative freedom?, Microsoft? I guess those terms don't really cope. I think that before releasing such a tool they should try applying some creative freedom themselves.
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Yep, sounds exactly like "Il Popolo della Libertà" (The People of Freedom)
I recommend you watching the movie "The Take" by Naomi Klein (http://www.thetake.org/). It was filmed in my homeland, Argentina, and it is about the "recovered" factories in my country.
When some factories went broke their employees decided to take the factories and run them by themselves, in a cooperative fashion.
Some factories of this sort have now legally obtained the rights to actually own the factories, in change for some debt the companies had with them, and are actually very successful businesses.
Hope you like it... I really recommend it
I live in Argentina and the only news I've seen about this was a very very early article in the moderate left wing newspaper "Pagina/12" www.pagina12.com.ar I don't have the link but, anyway, it was very early. I think that if there hasn't been any news it's probably because it's still on an early stage.
Quoting from the M$ download site: It seems to me that that is the biggest load of lies I've ever heard. It's nearly as missleading as the healthy McDonald's trash. "Microsoft enables users around the world to exercise their creative freedom" Creative freedom?, Microsoft? I guess those terms don't really cope. I think that before releasing such a tool they should try applying some creative freedom themselves.