-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 10/01/2014 06:46 AM, Gert van Velzen wrote: > Thanks for posting this Geert. > > Scanning this, it seems they're getting many things right. > Also OKF and W3C involvement is a good sign for interoperability. > *** Really?
Here is my opinion: this is planted by the forces of the Status Quo to keep social networking under control of the prying eyes. I read, on page 4: "Why open standards? Why not just open-source? For many programmers, using open-source software - or the more restrictive "free software" as defined by GPL licensing - is enough." That is obviously an attack on software freedom. The wording here leaves no doubt that the author of that paper want to shun free software (written in quotes!) by calling it restrictive, and pose open-source as a legitimate, but insufficient "model". It attributes the failure of the Diaspora* project to its licensing, framing the technology, rather than the invention, and its obvious lack of compatibility with the existing environment, as the problem. It proceeds to attack peer-to-peer technologies as a whole, with the same lack of perspective, simply to push a unique agenda of shedding light to some technologies that we know cannot address the global surveillance issue that we've been submitted to. I could go on for every single chapter of this paper. It's so oriented to a single aspect of social networking technology that it's shameful to say the least. The technical value of this document nears zero. The first version of it, a few years ago, was already a complete rip-off of the work done by grassroots activists. That is how they receive EU funding in the first place: by co-opting Lorea, without even contacting the team for consulting or support--now when it comes to free software, the authors are happy to make it serve their interest. The D-Cent perspective certainly evolved a lot since their first publication, but frankly, co-option is not where you want to be looking at. == hk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJULANHXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ3MDM3QTJCNjlFNkMxQzA1NjI4RDUzOEZE OEU3QkQ4MDk0MUM4MjkzAAoJENjnvYCUHIKTXXIQAMghYSr4OUybYF4CgarO05cg CI6MCUCkezm+U3NMKisD7eLYExeznk5ViPm9ZalDU6YpLF8NCvaxiX3YH3JmJg+Y EmRgGCHZeS1dSrgtgumgmHEUuPySRHptyGAgeAJWA2S7Zr8q0Br27FoZEgqk8Ij9 xDbdK8l0JQSkjVhzSxgmvHZvyEWddbqUhb1S+HhfEo60PXAIV6Sk1c6SZxjJnQ9K TtDJMExVaj76c+apNigMaxpmtlPA4K/zyPz7rLyeuUT2l6Zcr2AdhBizaGpNKEQT ZYQ+1cnkHDXXm80iXzMyDWM+gzOqzsDr9M3XRCYqpX+rtaDozKlfFweBC559Xn4/ IjgLTq3wMRXP06rCQnJpDSRML9iQ14EENbjoUtgSkBi4g++qgmdkepvNFGpDi+fv 4bWhyEvGLCelFZwV8G3Y86budlUOj7t+PgsUQNopDW060io2ciZhDMERNwt3mYkk VzzGxQXtmD7lR9hQiYLOV6KdD/Jd4HR6FWmuIhRvY+dPrrVktXD/peoKLlDTcS7V MinWpOOcDSfEoUq1iTdfWEyiP2Rk8/5Fq2E+8ycopXbJbWXodGc7TVoI08ffLWkh NWeEUX+uhEcw1xhdnTVMr01DhVYOasDcoYkS3BUyj1Ivpr4CNE6hD8+AD3fe/kaE byFm+RV5nmMxbLZdnrca =8eUU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
