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Comment Re:No surprise (Score 1) 396

by lnunes on Thursday May 03, 2012 @08:23PM (#39885099) Attached to: Microsoft Using Linux To Optimize Skype Traffic

So Microsoft is not a Linux contributor but they have merely contributed code to the Linux kernel.

Right...

And enough to appear as one of the 20 biggest contributors.

Please, forget about this "oh, they MUST make Linux better on its own" mentality. As you said, Microsoft contributed to make it play nicer to their software... So what? Put yourself in their shoes: wouldn't you want your own software to be compatible?
Hell, if they contributed to fix the software controller in their espresso machines, it would still be valid.

Comment Re:No surprise (Score 1) 396

by lnunes on Thursday May 03, 2012 @08:10PM (#39884935) Attached to: Microsoft Using Linux To Optimize Skype Traffic

Indeed, I agree completely with you. But not only the used, they also contributed back to the community. That alone sets them apart of the vast majority of the Linux users, at least symbolically.

Comment No surprise (Score 2) 396

by lnunes on Thursday May 03, 2012 @08:00PM (#39884805) Attached to: Microsoft Using Linux To Optimize Skype Traffic

Microsoft is one of the biggest Linux contributors http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/microsoft-counted-key-linux-contributor-now-anyway-190104. In my view they have absolutely all the right to use it, if it fits their solution.

Comment Re:Natural Selection at work (Score 1) 489

by lnunes on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:38PM (#39223629) Attached to: Is Poor Numeracy Ruining Lives?

You never watched Idiocracy, did you?

Comment Link is (was?) broken (Score 5, Informative) 135

by lnunes on Thursday July 28, 2011 @04:50PM (#36913560) Attached to: Debian Wheezy To Have Multi-Architecture Support

Read about it here: http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch

92,000 LEGO Robots To Take Over Peruvian Schools Alongside OLPC 56

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 08, 2011 @08:43AM from the resistance-is-futile dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The president of Peru, Alan Garcia, decided to celebrate the 500,000th One Laptop Per Child XO laptop in that country in style, announcing orders for half a million more and 20,000 additional Lego education WeDo robot kits for public schools, bringing the total number of kits for distribution up to 92,000. The latest OLPC laptop, the XO-1.75, has the lowest power draw ever thanks to a Marvell Armada 600 ARM processor and runs Fedora GNU/Linux with dual desktops Sugar (in Spanish, Aymara, and Quechua) and GNOME. For the first time, the XOs will be manufactured locally; the previous 2 million, including the blue high school variant with grownup keyboard, were all made by Quanta Computer. Meanwhile, parallel development continues on the upcoming XO-3 tablet; OLPC's New Technologies director is exploring software paths including GTK3 for Sugar, Android and Chrome. I, for one, salute our new plastic Peruvian overlords."

Submission + - Internet pioneer Paul Baran dies, aged 84 (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk on Monday March 28, 2011 @02:19PM

mikejuk writes: Paul Baran, whose work in the 1960's helped create the technical underpinnings for the Arpanet, the government-sponsored precursor to today's Internet, died at his home in Palo Alto, California, on March 26, 2011.

Submission + - Too Many Systems, Not Enough Vision (businessservicemanagementhub.com)

Submitted by

rsmiller510

on Thursday March 10, 2011 @06:56PM

rsmiller510 writes: "Today's IT pros have to deal with a myriad of software and hardware, physical and virtual, spanning geographical locations and it requires a system that lets you see across all of this complexity to get the big picture."

Submission + - LHC/CMS Narrows Search for Higgs Particle (discovery.com)

Submitted by

astroengine

on Thursday March 03, 2011 @05:10AM

astroengine writes: "On Wednesday, the CMS Collaboration announced its first science results. But no Higgs boson has been detected, yet. Physicists have instead narrowed the search down, and with a 95 percent certainty, the Higgs does not have a mass range of between 144 and 207 GeV/c2. In this quantum search for a proverbial needle in a haystack, it helps if the haystack shrinks a little."

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