Esteban Mendieta Jara - Blog

Few people had access to computers when Richard Matthew Stallman realized the then-nascent software industry was adopting a business model based on denying users the four essential freedoms, and that he could do something about it. Today, millions of individuals, companies and governments use the
result of efforts to preserve and defend their freedoms started 25 years ago, but few even know about the GNU project. Celebrate the achievements and spread the word!

• http://www.gnu.org/

The September 27, 1983, RMS announced to the world his goal of writing an operating system compatible with UNIX and free, ie not require users to give up their freedom to use, study, modify and distribute any software, modified or no. He invited programmers to join this task of developing a sufficiently large body of software to enable people to use computers in freedom, according to the moral foundations of sharing, solidarity and reciprocity.

• http://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html

• http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.es.html

After the initial focus on development tools including a compiler, a debugger, an integrated development environment and system libraries (GCC, GDB, Emacs, and glibc, respectively), hundreds of other applications, utilities and libraries were contributed by a growing number volunteers.

• http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/

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Well a few weeks ago the idea of ​​writing a post to help migrants with the use of tools available online, but I really think this can also be useful post for exchange students, frequent travelers, backpackers, people who one way or another want to be in touch with loved ones and acquaintances, even within the same country.

I hope these tips can help you, if you have any more suggestion, send it to me by e-mail to include it.

This is written based on my experience when I travel out and some new things that I have known in recent months in Korea.

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I think one of the most interesting things when traveling is that you have everything you do and show everything you do, at least this is my case, so I recommend you open a blog.

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During the International Congress of Society and Electronic Government CONSEGI developed in Brazil from 27 to 29 August 2008, the countries of Brazil, South Africa, Venezuela, Cuba, Paraguay and Ecuador signed a document protesting the ISO standard (trucho) of OOXML .

As you may recall some months ago was made ​​the adoption of standard OOXML , this process was marked of much controversy , because some countries may check the manipulation of the vote by micro $ oft, now the countries that voted NO on that occasion have decided to raise their protest against the approval of the standard.