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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2100630

It's amazing to me. In the 90s Microsoft's overt policy was "embrace, extend, extinguish," and it called the GPL a "cancer," the MPAA was launching war against DeCSS, and Amazon.com was flexing its one-click patent against competitors. Open source developers had no powerful allies.
Now you have a powerful company like Google that releases millions of lines of open source, sponsors college students to work on open source, fights for openness standards in wireless spectrum auctions, fights for open standards like HTML5, open sources its entire mobile operating system, and in its latest move, buys a video codec company for $106 million and promptly pledges all of the patents for use by anybody.
And yet some people would prefer the codec whose rights are effectively owned by a known patent troll (MPEG-LA) because "at least [it] is owned by a number of different companies."

Where in the world is this?

Estoy leyendo un libro llamado "The World is Flat". Está bueno, es liviano, y me hizo notar que esta foto podría haber sido sacada en cualquier lugar:

Devdutt Pattanaik: West vs East, One vs Infinity

Me encantó esta charla de TED.

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Disparidades (short thought)

Quiero hacer algo más que un Ingeniero, en esta crisis humanitaria en la que vivimos hay mucho que hacer por todos lados. Cuando camino y veo cafés caros, negocios dedicados a vender todo tipo de artículos que sólo gente que vive en la opulencia pueden comprar; pienso cómo tanta gente se permite tantos lujos cuando hay una población muriendo de hambre. Seamos ciudadanos, reinventemos la política argentina para que sea más política y menos marketing.