Since our first exposure to technology we are bombarded with propaganda invasive proprietary software, primarily for Windows or MacOS. From them we raved and its endless benefits that would be available to us paying a good sum of money, yes, never forget to read the extensive pages of terms and conditions. But little is speaks of GNU / linux created by Linus Torvalds and how it can be not only a valuable ally in our daily labors but can also become the most widely used computer model globally.
What is free software? It’s just the kind of software that respects users’ freedom to use, study, modify and distribute the technology that has been assigned. Even when this does not mean that you can not make money selling free software, we quickly go to the licenses granted by the Free Software Foundation that will allow us to know more in depth.
The first GPL better known as copyleft or General Public License and hosted by the creator of the GNU project, Richard Stallman, who is also one of the members of the advisory board of teleSUR. The GPL covers the following freedoms: freedom of Use
* * * Freedom Freedom
Study of Share (copy) Freedom
* Modify the software
This means that the end user has the right to know what makes the software you are using, modify and redistribute it if you wish.
There is also another version of this license LGPL this keeps most of the freedoms but limits access the source or limited distribution software. This is the most used by companies that recycle and feed on free software but do business and make money with this type of technological enterprises, is the response of the free software community to allegations made by companies that manufacture proprietary software saying that open source is not profitable.
The free software in this case most GNU / Linux can and should be the starting point for a true technological sovereignty of countries. It is no secret to anyone scandalous revelations wikileaks on espionage has been conducting the NSA or National Security Agency US whole countries through computers and smarthphones commanded with proprietary software or the endless clauses of the contract that makes you accepting companies and where you end up ceding the rights of almost everything you create with your tools.
While free software has failed in its infancy in attracting users mainly for its archaic ways and “unfriendly” (not friendly) interfaces that were attractive for advanced users and dedicated to technological necessities, today there are many distributions each designed for a different audience and so infinitely configurable until you can make them look like Windows inclusive, if you dare, not You can leave some of custodial tools you can emulate a virtual machine with Windows inside Linux or simply run an .exe (executable windows) using wine. Although I must say that it has been doing a great job to create open source tools that do the same work that prison.
To further illustrate the state of free software in the world and that will make you think twice in rejecting a migration to free software will let 10 Facts perhaps unwise free software
1. GNU / Linux commands 446 of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, including the “Sequoia” of IBM computer with more power in the world.
2. 95% of servers belonging to Hollywood animation studios are under Linux. Recalling also that the first major film produced on Linux servers was Titanic director James Cameron whose again used the free software to create the technology that gave life to Avatar
3. Google servers running under Free software and contributed 1.1% of the code that contains the Linux kernel
4. Google Android, WebOS and hp nokia maemo smarthphones operating systems are built on Linux kernel
5. In 2009 the market share of Linux servers was 33.8% against 7.3% of Windows
6. Microsoft spent in 2002 about $ 421 million dollars to fight Linux
7. There are more than 300 active Linux distributions (some you can run perfect suit your requirements)
8. GNU / LINUX is present in some of the most important software in the world, such as the control system bullet train in Japan, controls air, the stock market in New York, CERN, control systems including nuclear submarines and ships nuclear weapons systems.
9. Around $ 7.37 billion cost in a proprietary environment to produce 238 million lines of code that make up the distribution should.
10. Venezuela under Presidential Decree No. 3390 of 2004 established the use of free software and GNU / Linux operating systems in the field of public administration required. Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paragua, Cuba, Bolivia and Ecuador have government programs and laws that favor the use of free software in public administrations and technological / educational initiatives.
We encourage you to try the open source technologies and become part of an inclusive movement to make the users and their needs the epicenter of his philosophy expanding vision of sovereignty of our peoples and promoting the development of our companies bouquet technological products created within Latin borders.
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