El incidente fue que recientemente se dio a conocer una carta en la que el máximo responsable de la distribución de Linux Mandriva da a conocer una mala jugada de Microsoft. En ella deja al descubierto que la empresa de Steve Ballmer convenció al gobierno de Nigeria de instalar Windows encima del sistema operativo Mandriva, incluido en unos portátiles educativos que había adquirido.
Hace poco se cerró un acuerdo con el Gobierno de Nigeria a cerca de la implementación de una solución HW/SW económica para sus escuelas, cuyo lote inicial sería de 17,000 máquinas. Esá propuesta fue la Classmate PC de Intel, con una solución Mandriva Linux personalizada. El gobierno aceptó dicha propuesta, entonces Microsoft trató de llevarse el acuerdo pero el cliente no cambió de opinión, así que el trato fue cerrado, se certificó el software y se enviaron las máquinas. Sin embargo una noticia de ultimo momento impactó a Linux Mandriva, el gobierno pagará por el software de Mandriva como se había acordado originalmente, pero luego será reemplazado por Windows. Evidentemente esta situación ha propiciado el descontento de la compañía y en la carta de la que a continuación se presenta liga, se manifiesta la molestia. http://www.richardcornejo.com/?p=316 La traducción de dicha carta la envié anteriormente, realizada por los amigos de BlogDrake. Salu2 2007/11/2, Christian Palacios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mandriva Press <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 02-nov-2007 11:43 > Subject: Open letter to Steve Ballmer > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Paris, November 2nd, 2007 - For Immediate Release > ____________________________________________________________________ > > Dear Steve, > > Hi, this is Francois, from Mandriva. > > I'm sure we are way too small for you to have heard of us. You know, > we are one of these Linux company who is working hard to make its > place in the market. We publish a Linux Distro, called Mandriva > Linux. Mandriva Linux 2008, our last edition, has a pretty good review > and we're proud of it. You should try it, I'm sure you'd like it. We > also happen to be one of the Linux companies that did not sign an > agreement with your company (nobody's perfect). > > > We recently closed a deal with the Nigerian Government. Maybe you > heard about it, Steve. They were looking for an affordable > hardware+software solution for their schools. The initial batch was > 17,000 machines. We had a good deal to respond to their need: the > Classmate PC from Intel, with a customized Mandriva Linux solution. We > presented the solution to the local government, they liked the > machine, they liked our system, they liked what we offered them, > especially the fact that it was open, and that we could customize it > for their country and so on. > > > Then, your people get in the game and the deal got more competitive. I > would not say it got dirty, but someone could have said that. Your > team fought and fought again the deal, but still the customer was > happy with the CMPC and Mandriva. > > > We actually closed the deal, we took the order, we qualified the > software, we got the machine shipped. To conclude, we did our > job. And, the machine are being delivered right now. > > > Now, we hear a different story from the customer : "we shall pay > for the Mandriva Software as agreed, but we shall replace it by > Windows afterward." > > > Wow! I'm impressed, Steve! What have you done to these guys to make > them change their mind like this? It's quite clear to me, and it will > be to everyone. How do you call what you just did Steve? There is > various names for it, I'm sure you know them. > > > Of course, I will keep fighting this one and the next one, and the > next one. You have the money, the power, and maybe we have a different > sense of ethics you and I, but I still believe that hard work, good > technology and ethics can win too. > > > cheers > > > Francois > > > PS: a message to our friends in Nigeria: it's still time to do the > right thing and make the right choice, you will get lots of support > for it and excellent services! > > _____________________________________________________________________ > You receive this email because you are in our journalist database. 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