Truly sad and as a matter of fact, Linux is not well accepted in Latinamerica as a whole. Mexico -my country- is highly dependant on the US trends and policies. We not only have to fight against Microsoft anticompetitive practices, but with nearsighted government officials. This news certainly are a huge blow against the open source promotion in government, particlrarly in Mexico.
The negotiations are not under the Senate control, but the final approval is. ACTA must be approved by the mexican Senate in order to be legally adopted.
And yes. The lobbyist and factual powers in Mexico are very powerful an evil, just as anywhere else.
The Point of Agreement from the Senate is a political plead to the President to stop the ACTA negotiation process. Although it's not legally binding at the moment, by law all the International Trades with Mexico have to be approved by the Senate.
The Senate is asking the President to stop the ACTA negotiations, but if the President fails to do it, eventually he must send the ACTA for approval to the Senate.
First of all, the offer made by Microsft is interesting for the mexican government but the people of the e-mexico project is open to many other offers. This paticular project hasnt even been started yet. First of all there must be a public bid in order to contrat the best solution. One of the more interesting points is that the website of the e-mexico project is based on GNU software! Can the open source community make a similar offer to the project than Microsoft?
You must know that the mexicans living in the U.S. send the same amount of money than the whole foreign investments in the country. We must be proud of the mexicans who work there!.... and ashamed for not giving them enough chances to live in their own country. Of course its not easy for the most of all the mexicans living there, and thats the same case with many mexicans here. Many of us (you can call us yuppies if you like) are trying to change that terrible estigma of been known as "third world", or "emerging economy". It is really hard because not everybody want to change, but its necessary.
President Fox has many faults, but were not only the mexican government nor the guys with the sombrero sleeping under the cactus (you should deal with that very often), the only difference with previous governmets is that we already know that changing our future as a society is possible.
BTW There is a proposal to enable mexicans living out form Mexico to vote for the next presidential elections, thats really fare to me.
Well, you posted first. I suppose that you are there to learn from them and then come back to Mexico (yes Im in Mexico) to save all of us; your story must be very sad and complex so we can skip it. The fact is that you are in the "mainstream" and Im working here with many other "yuppies" with certain technical skill to make this a better place to live.
What I really hate is people who pretend to know about something thousands of miles away from their lifes. Why dont you come back here to smell the roses? If you have something better than holow critisism then put your money (heart or effort) where your mouth is and Ill be proud to apologize to you.
e-Mexico is an excellent project with a lousy management, but it has the potential to help many communities who need many services (education, health, communications, job opportunities and culture). The only thing I agree with you is that MS software is a treath, and that there are many created interests on this project.
Continuing with the mexican tradition of albur: Hazme el favor!
As you would know Mexico is an "emerging economy" (AKA third world), and one of the Mexicos greatest challenges is the technological dependency on other countries. Despite there are many people who are creative and brilliant (Manuel de Icaza) there are very few chances to develop an own technology. The mexican government doesnt support the technological development at great scale yet and the efforts to improve our technological base are very seldom.
eMexico is a very interesting project focused on offering government services thru the use of IT in many different levels trying to close the technological gap. Unfortunately, Microsoft is the most known and used software provider, and its market dominance is brutal. 99% of the mexican IT is based on Microsoft products. I really dont think that Microsoft would pretend taxing these licenses, it pretends to consolidate its hegemony on the countrys technological dependence.
Manuel made some proposals to include open source software on the eMexico project, but MS is offering a very "generous" support to the project in order to keep dominating the mexican market. They dont really need to tax this software cause they intend to dominate the whole mexican technology market.
Thats exactly the potential of the open-source movement, you can have distros for very specifical users. My favorite distro is Slackware, but I woludnt use it if I needed an out-of-the-box server; Id rather use Caldera. The freedom to choose is the big deal of the Linux distros.
This comment could make you think a little. I live in Mexico City and in the last few months many people I know has been kidnapped (my own brother was kept against his will for a couple of hours. The ransome was about US $50,000.00) How much do you think I would pay for a device like this in a case like that? Maybe I'm just a big brother who fears a lot. This is not fiction.
I've been using a Silitek K-7100 keyboard with an integrated joystick-like pointer which is outstanding, the only problem is that it works with IR light so you can't work with another of these keyboards next to you.
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Truly sad and as a matter of fact, Linux is not well accepted in Latinamerica as a whole. Mexico -my country- is highly dependant on the US trends and policies. We not only have to fight against Microsoft anticompetitive practices, but with nearsighted government officials. This news certainly are a huge blow against the open source promotion in government, particlrarly in Mexico.
The negotiations are not under the Senate control, but the final approval is. ACTA must be approved by the mexican Senate in order to be legally adopted.
And yes. The lobbyist and factual powers in Mexico are very powerful an evil, just as anywhere else.
Not in this case. By law, the Mexican Senate has to approve the ACTA.
The Point of Agreement from the Senate is a political plead to the President to stop the ACTA negotiation process. Although it's not legally binding at the moment, by law all the International Trades with Mexico have to be approved by the Senate.
The Senate is asking the President to stop the ACTA negotiations, but if the President fails to do it, eventually he must send the ACTA for approval to the Senate.
I'd apply for UN Ambassador to Atlantis.
First of all, the offer made by Microsft is interesting for the mexican government but the people of the e-mexico project is open to many other offers. This paticular project hasnt even been started yet. First of all there must be a public bid in order to contrat the best solution. One of the more interesting points is that the website of the e-mexico project is based on GNU software! Can the open source community make a similar offer to the project than Microsoft?
Well, you can look at here or here both in spanish.
Sorry I should have said fair. No habrá modo de hacer foros en español?
You must know that the mexicans living in the U.S. send the same amount of money than the whole foreign investments in the country. We must be proud of the mexicans who work there!.... and ashamed for not giving them enough chances to live in their own country. Of course its not easy for the most of all the mexicans living there, and thats the same case with many mexicans here. Many of us (you can call us yuppies if you like) are trying to change that terrible estigma of been known as "third world", or "emerging economy". It is really hard because not everybody want to change, but its necessary.
President Fox has many faults, but were not only the mexican government nor the guys with the sombrero sleeping under the cactus (you should deal with that very often), the only difference with previous governmets is that we already know that changing our future as a society is possible.
BTW There is a proposal to enable mexicans living out form Mexico to vote for the next presidential elections, thats really fare to me.
What I really hate is people who pretend to know about something thousands of miles away from their lifes. Why dont you come back here to smell the roses? If you have something better than holow critisism then put your money (heart or effort) where your mouth is and Ill be proud to apologize to you.
e-Mexico is an excellent project with a lousy management, but it has the potential to help many communities who need many services (education, health, communications, job opportunities and culture). The only thing I agree with you is that MS software is a treath, and that there are many created interests on this project.
Continuing with the mexican tradition of albur: Hazme el favor!
BTW Im not anonymous anymore.
BTW Manuel de Icaza is the evil twin brother of Miguel, sorry for the mistake.
eMexico is a very interesting project focused on offering government services thru the use of IT in many different levels trying to close the technological gap. Unfortunately, Microsoft is the most known and used software provider, and its market dominance is brutal. 99% of the mexican IT is based on Microsoft products. I really dont think that Microsoft would pretend taxing these licenses, it pretends to consolidate its hegemony on the countrys technological dependence.
Manuel made some proposals to include open source software on the eMexico project, but MS is offering a very "generous" support to the project in order to keep dominating the mexican market. They dont really need to tax this software cause they intend to dominate the whole mexican technology market.
Thats exactly the potential of the open-source movement, you can have distros for very specifical users. My favorite distro is Slackware, but I woludnt use it if I needed an out-of-the-box server; Id rather use Caldera. The freedom to choose is the big deal of the Linux distros.
At last a good game for the dreamcast.
This comment could make you think a little. I live in Mexico City and in the last few months many people I know has been kidnapped (my own brother was kept against his will for a couple of hours. The ransome was about US $50,000.00) How much do you think I would pay for a device like this in a case like that? Maybe I'm just a big brother who fears a lot. This is not fiction.
I've been using a Silitek K-7100 keyboard with an integrated joystick-like pointer which is outstanding, the only problem is that it works with IR light so you can't work with another of these keyboards next to you.
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