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Cuba criticizes Microsoft blocking Messenger
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| Cuba criticized Microsoft on Friday for blocking its Messenger instant
| messaging service on the island and in other countries under U.S. sanctions,
| calling it yet another example of Washington's "harsh" treatment of Havana.
|
| The technology giant recently announced it was disabling the program's
| availability in Cuba, Syria, Iran, Sudan and North Korea to come into
| compliance with a U.S. ban on transfer of licensed software to embargoed
| countries.
|
| The move "is just the latest turn of the screw in the United States'
| technological blockade against the island," a technology writer said in an
| article published by state youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12478571?nclick_check=1
Microsoft Shuts Off IM Service in Sudan and Other Sanctioned Countries
http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/508
Good riddance to Microsoft...
Recent:
Cuba releases free video game that teaches Unix to kids, built with Blender and
GIMP
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| NovaTux is the first open source video game to be released by Cuba’s vibrant
| free software community. The work was done by students of UCI, one of the
| most important computer science universities in Cuba, which also launched
| Nova, the first GNU/Linux distribution from the country.
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http://news.northxsouth.com/2009/05/07/cuba-releases-free-video-game-that-teaches-unix-to-kids-built-with-blender-and-gimp/
Review: Nova Linux 1.1.2
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| I recently heard that Cuba had created their own Linux distribution, Nova.
| Like many other countries with a rocky relationship with the USA (Russia,
| China, Iran), Cuba is wary of running their entire computer infrastructure on
| software developed in the USA. As someone of Cuban ancestry, this
| development piqued my interested and I decided to check it out. (I figured
| such a specialist distro would never be on the cover of LXF). According to
| its distrowatch page, it is a mix of Gentoo, Sabayon, and Ututo. We’ll see
| if they chose all of the negative aspects of those distros and thus created
| Satan’s Distro or if they took all that was good and created what Gentoo has
| the potential to be. So I launch it up in VirtualBox.
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http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2009/04/02/review-nova-linux-112/
Nova Baire, el Linux cubano
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| Video de demostración de la distribución de Linux cubana, Nova en su primera
| versión.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTXIzaxfox4
Cuba Launches Own Linux Variant to Counter U.S.
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| A Linux operating system variant called Nova, introduced in Cuba at a
| computer conference on technological sovereignty, is part of an effort to
| replace the Microsoft software running most of Cuba's computers. The Cuban
| government views the use of Microsoft systems as a potential threat because
| it says U.S. security agencies have access to Microsoft codes.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Cuba-Launches-Own-Linux-Variant-to-Counter-US/?kc=rss
Nova: Cubans roll their own Linux
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| Reuters report today, 12th February 2009, that the government of Cuba aims to
| replace the, all pervasive Microsoft software, running on its administrative
| infrastructure, with its own Linux distribution. The Cuban distribution,
| called Nova and apparently a Gentoo variant of Linux, was introduce recently
| at the annual International Conference on Communication and Technologies in
| Havana.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/132464
Cuba Opts for Linux to Guarantee Technological Independence
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| Assistance with the understanding and expansion of the Linux computer
| operating system was the main outcome of the Free Software Festival of the
| Youth Computing Club, which took place in the central Cuban province of
| Cienfuegos
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http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2008/11/11/14364/cuba_opts_linux_guarantee_technological_independence.html
Russia and Cuba Unite Against Microsoft
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| Recently, Russia announced that it was pushing Microsoft out of its schools
| in favour of open source. Now, it's going even further by joining with Cuba
| to write free software that can be used instead of Microsoft's products in
| other areas...
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/11/russia-and-cuba-unite-against-microsoft.html
Cubans prefer Linux to sex
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| Pingdom also wonders why, within the US, the strongest Linux interest is in
| Utah. A lot of readers have pointed out the obvious answer - Novell and SCO
| are based there, and there's a strong community of Novell-related companies.
|
| Utah is also probably the state where Linux comes closest to sex in
| Google-popularity.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009067o-2000469549b,00.htm
Linux popularity across the globe
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| In general, Linux seems to have a stronger popularity in the East than in the
| West, with some exceptions (like Cuba). This is perhaps not surprising,
| considering that it is free software and many of the countries where Linux is
| most popular have a relatively low income per capita compared to most
| countries in the West. Or perhaps there is just a stronger focus on free
| software and Open Source in these regions.
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http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=340
U.S. position on Cuba hurts Microsoft
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| At a technology conference in February last year, the Cuban government
| declared its intention to rid itself of Microsoft software in favor of
| open-source alternatives. According to an Associated Press report,
| Communications Minister Ramiro Valdes, who opened the conference, suggested
| that Microsoft was cooperating with U.S. military and intelligence
| authorities, and he proclaimed that IT is a battlefield on which Cuba is
| fighting imperialism.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=knowledge_center&articleId=322823&taxonomyId=1&intsrc=kc_feat
http://tinyurl.com/6jspk8
Kicking Cuba's Free Software Switch Into a Higher Gear
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| In fact, the changeover strategy is made up of several stages, from
| installing specific programs such as the browser Mozilla Firefox to replace
| the widely used Internet Explorer, which began Jan. 5, to training operators
| to use OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office, until patented software is
| finally dropped.
|
| [...]
|
| The purpose of the move is to "attain sovereignty and technological
| autonomy," as recommended by the Ibero-American Charter on Electronic
| Government, approved by the Ninth Ibero-American Conference of Ministers for
| Public Administration and State Reform, held in Chile in June 2007.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Kicking-Cubas-Free-Software-Switch-Into-a-Higher-Gear-63101.html
University of Havana Finally Switches to Free Software
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| And, Yudivián Almeida, professor of computer at the University of Havana,
| this change means that “[w]hen free software has been installed on all of the
| university’s computers, it will make no sense to teach using anything else.”
| So, one more Latin American institution has made the conversion away from
| closed, proprietary software and towards open knowledge.
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http://news.northxsouth.com/
Cuba Lifts Ban on Home Computers
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| I'm a Cuban. This happened more than a month ago. And we are very happy that
| someone finally came to his senses about it.
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| What's new, though, is that [startin soon], they are going to be sold without
| operating systems... No more windows pre-installed. Or so I've heard. Now we
| only need tons of Ubuntu disks to give away at the sotre.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/03/1236214
Cuba Votes No to OOXML - Says It Did So in September, Too - Updated
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| More OOXML news. The Cuban National Bureau of Standards has reportedly sent
| an email to the three names NBs are supposed to notify at ISO, Toshiko
| Kimura, Keith Brannon, and Martine Gaillen, reporting that Cuba votes to
| disapprove OOXML.
|
| But the startling news is that the email claims that Cuba voted no in
| September but that its vote was miscounted.
|
| [...]
|
| If you recall, the public announcement by ISO in September said that Cuba had
| voted to approve, which led to puzzlement. Not so, says the email, which was
| sent on Friday evening and broadly cc'd, including to all the NBs, perhaps to
| ensure there was no confusion this time. Cuba was deeply injured by the false
| report, the email says. Cuba voted no with comments in September. It never
| approved OOXML.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080324121844682
Related:
The Gradual Introduction of Free Software in Cuba Becomes Significant to Go
Ahead in the Crucial Strategy.
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| Without “pushing the boat out”, the gradual introduction of free software in
| Cuba becomes significant to go ahead in the process of incorporating
| informatics into society.
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http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2008/02/16/9177/the_gradual_introduction_of_free_software_in_cuba_becomes_significant_to_go_ahead_in_the_crucial_strategy.html
Cuba embraces migration to free and open source software
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| Cuba's Cabinet also has urged a shift from proprietary software. The customs
| service has gone to Linux and the ministries of culture, higher education and
| communications are planning to do so, Rodriguez said.
|
| And students in his own department are cooking up a version of Linux called
| Nova, based on Gentoo distribution of the operating system. The ministry of
| higher education is developing its own.
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http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2007/08/02/4878/cuba_embraces_open_source_software.html
Cuba Embraces Open-Source Software
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| Both governments say they are trying to wean state agencies from
| Microsoft's proprietary Windows to the open-source Linux operating
| system, which is developed by a global community of programmers
| who freely share their code.
|
| [...]
|
| Other countries have tried similar moves. China, Brazil and
| Norway have encouraged the development of Linux for a variety
| of reasons: Microsoft's near-monopoly over operating systems,
| the high cost of proprietary software and security problems.
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CUBA_SOFTWARE?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://tinyurl.com/29dejf
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