domingo, 21 de outubro de 2007

Recomendação de Filme - Notícias de Uma Guerra Particular

Documentário excelente.

Notícias de Uma Guerra Particular

Título Original: Notícias de Uma Guerra Particular / News from a Personal War

Gênero: Documentário

Origem/Ano: BRA-ESP/1999

Duração: 57 min

Direção: João Moreira Salles / Kátia Lund

Elenco:

Carlos L. Gregório...Paulo Lins...
Hélio Luz... Rodrigo Pimentel...
Itamar Silva...

Sinopse: Retrata o cotidiano dos moradores e traficantes do morro da Dona Marta, no Rio de Janeiro, em Notícias de uma Guerra Particular.

Resultado de dois anos de entrevistas (entre 1997 e 1998) com personagens que estão de alguma forma envolvidos ou vêem de perto a rotina do tráfico, o documentário contrapõe a todo o momento as falas de traficantes, dos policiais e dos moradores.

Notícias de uma Guerra Particular traz cenas desconcertantes, como o garoto de dez anos que diz ter prazer em estar perto da morte, o policial que se orgulha em matar, e as crianças que sabem de cor os nomes das armas e suas siglas.

sexta-feira, 12 de outubro de 2007

Ballmer claims Red Hat violates Microsoft IP

Robert Mullins, Network World

10/10/2007 08:36:35

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says Red Hat Linux uses intellectual property owned by Microsoft and that Red Hat's customers should pay Microsoft for it.

Ballmer made the claim, an echo of earlier remarks aimed at the open source community, during a presentation at a Microsoft event last year in London.

"People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense have an obligation eventually to compensate us," Ballmer stated, according to Asked for comment, Red Hat reiterated its position that its customers are protected from liability by its Open Source Assurance Program, which includes "indemnification against claims raised by any holder of software patents," according to information on Red Hat's Web site.

Red Hat is also a founder of the Open Invention Network, which provides "a patent safe harbor for the Linux environment," Red Hat states.

Ballmer's remarks are "unfortunate," said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. If Microsoft really believes Linux violates its patents, it should sue, but that by doing so, it'd be suing its own customers because many use both Microsoft and Linux in their IT systems.

"They have yet to actually make a specific allegation that an identified patent is infringed in a specific product. Until they do it, they'll just create more ill will in the development community and among their own customers, since by their own admission, most of them have both Microsoft and Linux running in their data centers," Zemlin says.

He urged Microsoft to help to reform the software patent system if it supports interoperability with open source. Microsoft entered into an agreement with open source Linux vendor Novell in November 2006 to improve interoperability with Windows and Novell SUSE Linux and protect Novell customers from intellectual property liability claims.

A Gartner research report says Microsoft's strategy is not to file suit but use the infringement claims as leverage to win other agreements like the one with Novell.

"We think the company will attempt to pressure technology providers to come to the table and negotiate an equitable licensing or royalty arrangement in instances where Microsoft can prove its claims of infringement," Gartner stated in response to a May 14 Fortune magazine article in which Microsoft claimed open source software violated 235 of its patents.