Dru Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1647 'Maracaibo is also the heartland of the oil industry, and the state run oil company, PDVSA. Oil companies are also traditionally conservative in nature. However, PDVSA also is a contrast, as both the primary wealth producing intuition in the country, and the strongest source of support for President Hugo Chavez's revolutionary changes. I had met a number of PDVSA oil workers, who seemed well represented among the ranks of PDVSA management. I also had the chance to talk with one of their directors, Socorro Hernendez, over lunch, as well as Jose Luis Rey, who's renoun is both as a skilled hacker and financial genius who was involved in helping rebuild the financial trading systems when those were sabotaged in 2003. (...) Today, the state-run oil company is a major backer of the free software movement (software libre) in Venezuela and is a major sponsor of the 3rd International Forum on Free Knowledge, which is what brought me to Maracaibo. Every question related to the use of free software in Venezuela, and to how the Bolivarian revolution started, seems to come back to PDVSA and the worker lockout in 2002. (...) 'Much of the infrastructure of PDVSA was under Microsoft Windows-based servers, and used proprietary database software such as Microsoft SQL. The IT managers did not expect a bunch of oil workers to be able to thwart their plans. Those same oil workers, working together with local computer hackers, were able to secure control of vital computer servers, and in doing so save the oil infrastructure. 'The Venezuelan revolution is perhaps the first revolution in history saved by computer hackers and is one of the reasons the government is so very strong on promoting the use of free software, particularly in public administration. The Venezuelan government wishes never again to have vital infrastructure held hostage or sabotaged by agents of foreign nations. This cannot be accomplished by source secret proprietary software, such as Microsoft Windows, with it's infamous backdoor NSA key. Even proprietary software from a trustworthy source has to be suspect for possible tampering, and so must be rejected, not just by Venezuela, but by any nation that wishes to protect and maintain its sovereignty against sabotage.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashw_justin Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Nice fairy tale propaganda! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted January 20, 2006 Author Share Posted January 20, 2006 I thought it was funny that they misspelled institution as intuition! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willstrickland Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 You'll run whatever your Microsuck overlords say you'll run, and you'll learn to like it. Beyotch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashw_justin Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 This is just like in that motorcycle movie, when that guy was all: "tanto injusticio... no?" and then he went to rise up his people, but then they assasinated him and used his face and blood to stamp his likeness all over posters and T-shirts. In the Motorcycle Blogs, the story will pick up with a young man, armed with only his laptop... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 there is a movement in this country to erode traditions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted January 20, 2006 Author Share Posted January 20, 2006 If you don't want your traditions to erode Don't build them out of sand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogen Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Some folks have turned their xboxes into browsers by installing an OS The new Nintendo is called the Revolution I thought this thread was going to be more interesting.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWolfe Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 The Revolution Starts Now I was walkin’ down the street In the town where I was born I was movin’ to a beat That I’d never felt before So I opened up my eyes And I took a look around I saw it written ‘cross the sky The revolution starts now Yeah, the revolution starts now The revolution starts now When you rise above your fear And tear the walls around you down The revolution starts here Where you work and where you play Where you lay your money down What you do and what you say The revolution starts now Yeah the revolution starts now Yeah the revolution starts now In your own backyard In your own hometown So what you doin’ standin’ around? Just follow your heart The revolution starts now Last night I had a dream That the world had turned around And all our hopes had come to be And the people gathered ‘round They all brought what they could bring And nobody went without And I learned a song to sing The revolution starts now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selkirk Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 This is just like in that motorcycle movie, when that guy was all: "tanto injusticio... no?" and then he went to rise up his people, but then they assasinated him and used his face and blood to stamp his likeness all over posters and T-shirts. In the Motorcycle Blogs, the story will pick up with a young man, armed with only his laptop... Did anyone else thing that one of the guys in the Motorcycle Diaries looked a hell of a lot like Gary? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary_Yngve Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 I've heard that from other people as well. I really dig the movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted January 20, 2006 Author Share Posted January 20, 2006 Your revolution will not happen between these thighs Your revolution will not happen between these thighs Your revolution will not happen between these thighs Will not happen between these thighs Will not happen between these thighs The real revolution ain't about bootie size The Versaces you buys Or the Lexus you drives And though we've lost Biggie Smalls Maybe your notorious revolution Will never allow you to lace no lyrical douche in my bush Your revolution will not be you killing me softly with fujees Your revolution ain't gonna knock me up without no ring And produce little future M.C.'s Because that revolution will not happen between these thighs Your revolution will not find me in the back seat of a jeep With L.L. hard as hell, you know Doing it and doing and doing it well, you know Doing it and doing it and doing it well Your revolution will not be you smacking it up, flipping it or rubbing it down Nor will it take you downtown, or humping around Because that revolution will not happen between these thighs Your revolution will not have me singing Ain't no * like the one I got Your revolution will not be you sending me for no drip drip V.D. shot Your revolution will not involve me or feeling your nature rise Or having you fantasize Because that revolution will not happen between these thighs No no not between these thighs Uh-uh My Jamaican brother Your revolution will not make you feel bombastic, and really fantastic And have you groping in the dark for that rubber wrapped in plastic Uh-uh You will not be touching your lips to my triple dip of French vanilla, butter pecan, chocolate deluxe Or having Akinyele's dream, um hum A six foot blow job machine, um hum You wanna subjugate your Queen, uh-huh Think I'm gonna put it in my mouth just because you Made a few bucks, Please brother please Your revolution will not be me tossing my weave And making me believe I'm some caviar eating ghetto Mafia clown Or me giving up my behind Just so I can get signed And maybe have somebody else write my rhymes I'm Sarah Jones Not Foxy Brown You know I'm Sarah Jones Not Foxy Brown Your revolution makes me wonder Where could we go If we could drop the empty pursuit of props and the ego We'd revolt back to our roots Use a little common sense on a quest to make love De la soul, no pretense, but Your revolution will not be you flexing your little sex and status To express what you feel Your revolution will not happen between these thighs Will not happen between these thighs Will not be you shaking And me, [sigh] faking between these thighs Because the real revolution That's right, I said the real revolution You know, I'm talking about the revolution When it comes, It's gonna be real It's gonna be real It's gonna be real When it finally comes It's gonna be real Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 take down the wall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashw_justin Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 I've heard that from other people as well. I really dig the movie. That movie is nothing compared to Amores Perros. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephH Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Open source is not a revolution - it simply a bunch of people who don't realize they are working for IBM for nothing and are too young to remember what a real menace looks like... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashw_justin Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Yes but, as software becomes public infrastructure, it's composition and implementation should also be made public. I am funded in part by the government to make scientific developments, software development for the common good should follow suit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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