On Thursday 14 August 2003 14:07, Felix Stalder wrote:
The Open Source Approach to develop informational goods has been
spectacularly successful [...]
The boundaries to the open production model as it has been established in
the last decade are set by six conditions characterizing virtually
Felix Stalder wrote:
I totally agree that, from organizational point of view, the points you list
such as open participation are very important. Your list is fully consistent
with my elaborations.
Yes.
The Open Organizations project (http://www.open-organizations.org) is an
attempt to
Patrice Riemens wrote:
SCO invites open source people to 'monetize' Linux
A snappy reply from Linus Torvalds, which nicely sums up the crux of the
issue:
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http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/09/10/2321224.shtml?tid=11
Dear Darl,
Thank you so much for your letter.
We are happy
Kermit Snelson wrote:
Intellectuals and artists have always relied on
patronage, patronage depends on plunder, and plunder depends on deceit
and exploitation. Who, after all, paid for Europe's cathedrals? Who
paid for Beethoven's sonatas? Who pays for universities today?
[...] which side
monica ross wrote:
Yes, some people are getting paid and others are paying - in some
countries, including ones rich enough for it to be free to all.
And in some countries, it *is* free for all. Funnily enough, in France
for example, the idea of the 'student as consumer', dictating what he or
Alan Sondheim wrote:
I find the following strangely disconcerting, as a major linux provider
slides out from its customer base. For some this would indicate a growth
and maturity of the community - for most of us, it already implies a
problematic development of open source community.
It's
Martin Hardie wrote:
I understand from the FSF in the US that they deal with enforcement and
compliance of the GPL.
That sounds a bit misleading. The FSF defends the copyrights that it
owns (i.e. for software that is part of the GNU project), and also
sometimes helps out other copyright
ed phillips wrote:
I'm curious. They seem in their licensing literature(
http://www.mysql.com/products/opensource-license.html )
to be trying to scare non-Linux users, companies, and government
organizations into purchasing commercial licenses.
I thought MySQL's interpretation of the GPL
Aliette Guibert wrote:
Around 150 former Italian activists, condemned in Italy for actions linked
with the political and social upheaval of the 1970s
Translation: nutters who believed that murdering politicians and random
civilians would make them popular.
Since 1981, they have been legally
Martin Hardie wrote:
Benjamin has been big on trusting the law and its processes in this one ...
I simply think that the same rules should apply to everyone. If we accept
that, say, the policemen who allegedly beat up activists in Genoa at the
G8 should be tried (as indeed they are being
geert wrote:
http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/040802fa_fact
The _New Yorker_ used to have better editorial standards. This
article is inexcusable: it blithely equates Arabs with Muslims
and Muslims with terrorists.
The Internet provides confused young Muslims in Europe with a
An echo of the Cesare Battisti case: this time the accused is French.
After a failed bank robbery attempt in Paris that left several hostages
wounded, Hélène Castel fled to Mexico. Like Battisti, she was convicted
in absentia and sentenced to life in prison. She made a new life for
herself
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:05:35 -0500, Jon Ippolito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This hardware intervention effectively destroys even the possibility of
fair use, since artists and educators cannot transform, parody, or
criticize what they cannot record. [snip] which is why the MPAA will
do its best to
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 21:03:29 -0500, Jon Ippolito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're right, American consumer culture is largely self-referential.
But that doesn't mean that all non-consumer repurposing of that
culture is stuck in the same groove. Remixes like John Oswald's take
on Michael
Morlock Elloi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In media content this likeliness of monetizing is much lower.
You have to use your imagination. Film viewers don't need support
contracts, but they might like to have more of a say in the sorts of
films that get produced, and they might be willing to pay
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:37:38 -0800 (PST), Morlock Elloi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You have to use your imagination. Film viewers don't need support
contracts, but they might like to have more of a say in the sorts of
films that get produced, and they might be willing to pay for that. I
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 20:29:28 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And that you will not
entertain (as usual) any transitional forms other than those
expounded by your high priests of the GPL of the CC.
But I will and I do! See the Open Organizations project
(continued from previous post)
Proportional Influence
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What does it mean to be considered a legitimate partner in a
political process? It means that your voice carries weight. How
much weight? Let's consider these examples given by Michael
Albert:
Imagine a worker
On 4/20/05, Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Saturday April 23
The Thing at Postmasters
459 West 19th Street
6:30pm
It's always nice when people post event announcements on international
mailing lists without saying what country, never mind what city, the
event is taking place in. Even among
On 06/06/05, Ivo Skoric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1499871,00.html
The article says:
Our idea was to use corporate branding in politics, said Mr
Marovic of Serbia's Otpor, which has become the model for
parallel movements across the region.
On 10/01/06, Prem Chandavarkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So you have 15% of the electorate on one side, and 4% on the other. The
11% differential is enough to swing any election and all the politicians
know it. Therefore, democracy is not about majorities and minorities.
It is determined by
On 21/01/06, brian carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the War of Terror is actually the Palestinian/Israeli conflict writ-larg=
e at the world-scale.
While this might be an interesting analysis from a psychoanalytic
point of view, if taken literally it runs the risk of blurring
political
On 23/03/06, Rana Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
THE SUDDEN STARDOM OF THE THIRD-WORLD CITY
I think you have a point about Westerners' changing perceptions, but
perhaps you ought to have mentioned the vast gulf between those
commodified images and the ways many who live in third-world
On 24/03/06, Keith Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But I truly wonder where Benjamin got the material for his riposte
Mostly from listening to Egyptians.
Where do you get your information on Bolivian politics?The Guardian?
I admit I'm far from knowledgeable about Bolivia, but what brought it
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Democracy Without Borders?
Benjamin Geer
6 April 2006
Many observers of the recent Palestinian parliamentary elections have
pointed out that the US has been caught in the trap of its own
commitment to Palestinian democracy. Having declared its support for
free and fair Palestinian elections, it now faces
On 10/04/06, nettime nettime-l@bbs.thing.net wrote:
A proxy class implements exactly the interfaces specified at its creation, ...
If a proxy class implements a non-public interface, then it will be defined
...
In 1945, American president Harry Truman decided to support Jewish
immigration
On 13/04/06, brian carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yet, in 'a state of emergency' it would be imperative to have public
.US control over the state, so things do not get out of hand. so, it is
like having a circuit-breaker, and what will be called for is that the
.US military prepare to take
The American immigrants' rights movement has been getting a fair
amount of media attention outside the US. Is there anyone here
knowledgeable enough to comment on any broader effects that Latino
political movements might be having on American politics, beyond the
specific issue of immigration?
On 03/05/06, David Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So although the recent rise of the left in Latin America is momentous and
influencing oppinion and across the world, I wonder whether this current US
campaign is (as is often the case with US) more inward looking than Ben's post
suggests.
I
On 19/05/06, Keith Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At the extreme, those who stay in have opted for self-exploitation.
This sounds an awful lot like the classical liberal idea that workers
and employers are equal parties to an employment contract that they
both choose to sign, so if the workers
One of the things I like best about nettime is the high
signal-to-noise ratio, and I think it's got better over the last few
years. It seems to me that a lot of thought generally goes into the
postings that appear here, thanks both to the authors and the
moderators. So if a day goes by without
Juan Martin Prada's essay reminded me of this talk that Shierry Weber
Nicholsen gave a few years ago and that, to my knowledge, hasn't been
published anywhere. She takes as her starting point Stjepan
Mestrovic's notion of postemotional society:
While emotions would seem to be the inviolable
On 23/06/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Second, apparently blogs are not considered good enough sources for
Wikipedia.
(Apologies for partial cross-posting.)
In my own experience, many of the people who contribute to Wikipedia
articles in English, on politically controversial
On 01/08/06, Brian Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What kind of culture, what kind of shared horizon can
help us get there? [...]
A political culture that can resolve serious differences
between dissenting groups, and can draw plans for using and
governing the productive forces that make and
On 22/08/06, Alex Foti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But only if we
construct a sufficiently shared narrative on the parable of capitalism
and communism in the 20th century, and especially on the exhaustion of
neoliberalism at end of the century, can we create the bases for that
new radical,
On 12/11/06, Matteo Pasquinelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The brand of Barcelona is a consensual hallucination produced
by many but exploited by few. [...]
The rise of Barcelona to prominence within the European system of
cities has in part been based on its steady amassing of symbolic
On 10/01/07, Felix Stalder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, we are in a situation where nobody has any good idea what to do. [...]
There are no community rituals, no community centers, often there are no
sidewalks. People live in empty soulless houses and drive big empty cars on
freeways to Los
On 11/01/07, Michael H Goldhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
b) Venice is in fact becoming de-populated, with its natives moving
to the car-unfree mainland;
That's because tourism has driven up real estate prices to the point
where locals can no longer afford to live there. There are ways to
On 16 Jan 2007 13:21:11 Alex Foti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are not occidentalists [...] We are rather for secularism
wherever we can find it.
What do you mean by secularism? Do you mean separation of church and
state, anticlericalism, militant atheism, or what an old European
leftist once
On 12/01/07, A. G-C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do you explain the proliferation of US military bases in the
Middle East[1] if those bases aren't intended to protect American
access to oil?[2]
[...]
to keep a military strategic position of US Defence at the south
of Russia and China
On 19/01/07, Michael H Goldhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Contras were in Nicaragua. Reagan hardly hid his political support for
them, but was eventually forced by Congress to be secretive about direct aid
to them.
Yes, Nicaragua, sorry. That's just one of many examples of covert US
On 22/01/07, Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Once socialist sharing communities can out-accumulate private Capital,
only then will our economic power will extend into real political
power.
Wouldn't that mean out-producing and out-consuming as well? But that
would be environmental suicide.
On 07/02/07, Alex Foti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In fact, these calculations push me to pose larger questions: how many
kwh per year are consumed to operate the Net
There are some scientific papers here about the energy consumption of
computer networks and computer manufacturing:
i'd love to know your take on this manuscript, regarding the field
of typography
Perhaps your argument would be strengthened by a consideration of some
of the issues involved in typography of non-Western scripts. In the
case of Arabic, for example, calligraphic tradition long ago
standardised
Free Media vs Free Beer
by Andrew =97 last modified 2007-04-15 13:23
[...]
* EngageMedia.org - an Australian based free software project and
video sharing site for social and environmental justice film from
Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific.
* Transmission.cc - a new global
On 11/06/07, Ana Peraica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am thinking again on the role of the war reporter that has emancipated
indicating a cultural need for the distant trauma in public
Sometimes it's not so distant. People in Iraq do watch TV news
reports about the war going on around them.
This is an English translation of the transcript of a meeting entitled
Bloggers in Prison, Too, which took place on 18 March 2007 at the
Centre for Socialist Studies in Cairo, Egypt:
http://www.political-explorations.info/en/wiki/Bloggers_in_Prison%2C_Too
The background for the meeting was the
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