Apr 20 2008
in some of its 90.000 verses, the Mahabharata, the hindu epic text, tells the story of rajakumaran who was born from the pandavas (five brothers). the pandavas decided to offer a human sacrifice to assure the victory in their war, so they sacrificed rajakumaran. his last wish was to get married before dying. since nobody wanted to marry him, Shiva the lord took the form of a woman and married him. the marriage was celebrated at night. the day after, rajakumaran died.
Apr 13 2008
in the last days of the electoral campaign, berlusconi has put very clearly what is his idea of italy. if italians still vote for him today and tomorrow, then they would most likely buy even the most stupid marketing offer.
Apr 06 2008
for those of you who understand italian, the new episode is online. hope you will enjoy…
Apr 06 2008
a new initiative promoted by the italian association for free software for the next italian political elections (provided that they will actually take place…). the initiative consists in asking the candidates to sign a letter where they engage themselves, in case they will be elected, to promote the use of free software through their political activity. the points proposed to the candidates are the following:
at present 50 candidates from 9 different parties (mainly from left and center) have signed the letter. there is also a petition that asks the new government to take some cocrete steps for the promotion of free software. the petition has been signed by 1000 persons so far.
personally i support this sort of initiatives but i think that they have very limited effects. unfortunately, obtaining a promise from an italian politician is a very easy game to play, but it never goes beyond the promises. i think a more effective initiative would be to seriously monitor what politicians actually do to promote free software, in order to be sure that our money is spent in favour of open technologies.
