As I understand the interest of Linux.com (ergo Linux Foundation) is promoting Linux in all its applications and uses. Of course, preferring those related to freedom, but linux is just linux
2013/5/17 Ted Smith <[email protected]> > On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 19:16 +0200, Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I find this... disconcerting: > > http://www.linux.com/news/friday-funnies/the-iron-penguin-part-2 > > > > I understand that Google Glass is a Linux-based device that makes rounds > in > > the press and seems to be a very... convenient vehicle of promoting > Linux, but > > there is a multitude of problems with it. > > > > First off, I don't see Google promoting the fact that it's Linux-based. > Google > > doesn't help promote Linux. > > Google funds Linux hacking and makes sure there are GNU/Linux ports of > their non-free software (I see this as worse than libre software on > Windows, but better than not supporting GNU/Linux at all -- a net > negative, but not the worst case, and not something I'd note as a > positive to anyone not subscribed to this list). > > > Secondly, Google Glass has a lot of dangerous implications for privacy > and > > personal freedom -- the very personal freedom that Free Software is > poised to > > protect, although in a bit different area. > > Does it? The only implication is that now individuals have an easy way > to essentially tape a long-running camera to their face. People have > been doing that for a long time, and your public life has been > constantly surveilled for much longer. > > Google Glass doesn't take away any privacy. It just makes the existing > privacy losses much more blatant. > > There is no technical solution for this problem. It's not clear if the > technological attacker or defender has a clear advantage at the moment, > and the arms race will continue for some time. > > The best social solution for this problem is to attack centralized > surveillance, since it seems much more harmful overall than > decentralized surveillance. I can't think of any horrible things > decentralized surveillance has done, but I can think of several positive > things it's done (the Rodney King tape and a large number of similar > tapes, the Russian meteor footage). > > > -- > Sent from Ubuntu > -- Prof. Manuel Palomo Duarte, PhD Software Process Improvement and Formal Methods group (SPI&FM). Degree Coordinator for Computer Science. Department of Computer Science. Escuela Superior de Ingenieria. C/ Chile, 1 11002 - Cadiz (Spain) University of Cadiz http://neptuno.uca.es/~mpalomo Tlf: (+34) 956 015483 Mobile phone: (+34) 649 280080 Mobile phone from University network: 45483 Fax: (+34) 956 015139 Aviso legal: Este mensaje (incluyendo los ficheros adjuntos) puede contener información confidencial, dirigida a un destinatario y objetivo específico. Si usted no es el destinatario del mismo le pido disculpas, y le pido que elimine este correo, evitando cualquier divulgación, copia o distribución de su contenido, así como desarrollar o ejecutar cualquier acción basada en el mismo. -- Legal Notice: This message (including the attached files) contains confidential information, directed to a specific addressee and objective. In case you are not the addressee of the same, I apologize. And I ask you to delete this mail, and not to resend, copy or distribute its content, as well as develop or execute any action based on the same.
