Dear James Lobbies for the programmers that normally dont practice open data. Ressonance ... Funny that was the only part you mention. :-)))
> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:32:00 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] F(r)ee, Open (?) and Digital Culture(s) - slogans > for selling on the databases age ? > > On 11/12/12 Eduardo Valle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >F(r)ee ? > > > >Lets us look on four levels: > > > >1) philosofical level -- what is to be free ? > > > >2) consumer level - Living under Intel Monopoly on Microprocessors, > >Apple Monopoly in terms of video and cinema, HP Monopoly in terms of > >printers, Linux monopoly and growing because of they are cheaper for > >govermental institutions and commerce, etc and etc. > > > >3) administration level - ICANN dictatorship and their respective > >agents on each country, IPV6 and their domain controls under the hands > >of a few , etc and etc 4) on the industrial technological level - who > >are controlling satellites transmissions on a technological level, > >telecoms lobbies ,internet providers, etc and etc > > > >. How can someone talk about freedom in that situation ? > > > > > >Open (?) > > > >1) it is open for who ? for the ones that are programmers only ? > > It is open to non-programmers to perform the chore of documentation ;-) > > But say that the definition of openness can not be fulfilled due to > programmers being the only people capable of exploiting that openness, > then what is supposed to be done to make it more inclusive? Are > programmers meant to write software which is.... um... more > readily programmable? Probably not. Complex things can't be made > simple without sacrificing the reasons for which they are complex. Is > that why we now we have computers which are mere portals to commercial > consumption. > > > > > >2) the majority of the ones that says that they are "open" dont even > >think and practice open data. > > > > > > > >Digital Culture (s) > > > >1) How can someome talk about that, if ,what happens is a > >digitalization of various cultures ? > > > >2) Talking about Digital Culture in a singular way is totalitarian, is > >a medium not a culture. > > > > > > > -- > http://jwm-art.net/ > image/audio/text/code/ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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