Animus Wisdom

As I picked up my P.O. Box mail yesterday evening I noticed something was different, a large rectangular envelope had found it’s way in to my slot. It was a FedEx Express Envelope, I decided to open it right then and their and as I did a fresh off the ‘Google’ smell came from the inside.
At first I did not believe it, I looked away and started shaking the envelope vigorously until a smaller envelope fell from the inside, carefully picking it up from the soft carpeted ground I noticed it had some sort of new protection technology — “What is this Sorcery ?” my daughter shouted; Two small plastic rectangular pieces covered with glue on one side kept me away from my prize, I put on my emergency latex gloves and proceeded removing the strange objects, after a growling 2 hours of pealing I was Inside the smaller envelope. Their it was… my Official KDE 4 Release Event Invitation from Google Inc.

A few weeks have past and I have had no time for code hacking, I have finished most of my backed up work and now am left with some extra time on my hands.

I need to assign some quality time with Kopete and KNotes, this week will help me get back full speed.

More on this during the week.

A few years ago, I started noticing the amount of work and faith Sun put in the Free Software Comunity, helping out in the Mozilla, GNOME and Open Office projects, I kept and eye on them ever since.

Now I see that Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz explaining how Sun handled it’s “dark days” and they saw the light, he had this to say on the Microsoft interview in Fortune, .

no amount of fear can stop the rise of free media, or free software (they are the same, after all). The community is vastly more innovative and powerful than a single company. And you will never turn back the clock on elementary school students and developing economies and aid agencies and fledgling universities - or the Fortune 500 - that have found value in the wisdom of the open source community. Open standards and open source software are literally changing the face of the planet - creating opportunity wherever the network can reach.

That’s not a genie any litigator I know can put back in a bottle.

kudos Jonathan.

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What we did - Free Advice for the Litigious…

It seems that Microsoft has finally accepted that the Free Software movement is a real threat. Microsoft has funded a world wide smut campaign.

Bill Gates “Mini-Me”, Bill Hilf had this to say to the Asian press:

Microsoft director out to ‘debunk mythology around open source’

Yes, I know you can’t expect anybody to believe that load of bollox ( except the average Microsoft Junky ), the response was swift and clear:

Reading between the lines with Bill Hilf: Microsoft must really be hurting

The Free Software movement has been growing every day, more and more people find there way to the “light-side”. We need more developers, that means we need to make more noise, Don’t be scared to contact your local soft-news journalist, your local Radio DJ and even your local religious leader ( “X God told me that free software is the way to go.” ), Tell them all about “Free Software” and it’s avantages, let’s not stoop to their level.

I like the gorilla tactics these students used to get faculty interested in Free Software.

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Currently I am planning a similar strike: Mass distribution of material and installation cd’s to learning institutions in Tijuana, BC MX.

The plan is simple, distribute to any willing High Schools and Collage Campuses, if you want to take part, please contact me.