Re:The long reach of Miguel de Icaza (Score 2)

Here's my 2 pesos. Slashdot es grande,...(I'm Mexican). It is my understanding that what that interview really means, is the attitude towards ``Wy will stop the dogmatic endoctrination of mighty windows preference''. Forget those $200 dollar PC's Brasil's government is about to launch (from which I would like to attatch my voodoo3 3000). We in M'exico describe progress as, some sort of the following effect: We call progress between two cities connected by a road, as the benefits aquired. Or the consecuence of two cities growing,... i.e. the road. Anyhow, that is progress in Mexico. PC's first, despite OS, then people in both extremes with GNOME/KDE making things easily? (previous grep,sed,awk tutorials) , and arrive of ``my first computer'' will do (see: Miguel de Icaza project http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/emexico.html ) In which conclussions he states: ``México nunca ha tenido la oportunidad de participar en la tecnología de punta y siempre nos hemos mantenido rezagados. Con el uso del software libre, México tiene una oportunidad de ponerse a la cabeza en el desarrollo tecnológico y de llevar adelante proyectos que satisfagan las necesidades del proyecto e-México y al mismo tiempo crear una infraestructura que nos independice tecnológicamente.'' Translation: ``Mexico has ever had the chance to participate from edge tecnology, and we have allways being keept away from it. With the use of free/open software, Mexico has the oportunity to become a protagonist in the leading edge of technological development, wich will satisfy the development of the e-Mexico project neccesities, and at the same time create an infrastructure wich will make us independent (non-dependent).'' Finally, I think despite of the GNOME/KDE, Konqueror/Nautilius,Enlightenment/Sawfish, Slackware/RedHat, dilema,...it would be worthed a proccess to follow. Some Red Carpet, Bonoboo, Evolution (.NET?) technology will for shure help in the process. It is not that MS took the OS to the masses (thanks Bill) during the 80's , being UNIX as ``snob'' as allways and being selected as the OS of excellence during the 70's..... Joel Rodr'iguez http://ww.cicese.mx/~joel/index.html [e-mail]