nettime FW: [SummerSource-L] Jonathan Peizer on (FL)OSS and non-profits.

2003-09-25 Thread Volodymyr Vorobey
-Original Message- from: Volodymyr Vorobey sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:01 PM to: Patrice Riemens; Akhundov, Emin A. cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject: RE: [SummerSource-L] Jonathan Peizer on (FL)OSS and non-profits. Dear Patrice and all, It was incredibly

nettime ars electronica 2003

2003-09-25 Thread Armin Medosch
Ars Electronica 2003 The Festival, History and Context To understand this years Ars Electronica it is important to look back at the history of the festival and also to consider the local context. In last years Issue of Mute Magazine I wrote: Ars Electronica is one of the, if not the oldest

nettime CyberINsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly

2003-09-25 Thread David Mandl
http://www.ccianet.org/papers/cyberinsecurity.pdf CyberINsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly How the Dominance of Microsoft's Products Poses a Risk to Security [From the introduction:] Computing is crucial to the infrastructure of advanced countries. Yet, as fast as the world's computing

Re: nettime Don't Call it Art: Ars Electronica 2003

2003-09-25 Thread Florian Cramer
[admin note: this message was caught in nettime's spamfilter and delayed. it shouldn't have happened, but it did. sorry.] Am Montag, 22. September 2003 um 23:25:41 Uhr (+0200) schrieb august: First of all, something that had been addressed many times at this years README festival, especially

Re: nettime Threat Matrix: Early Snapshot of the Propaganda War

2003-09-25 Thread Carl Guderian
Cutting edge chutzpah! This one jumped the shark while coming out of the starting gate. It's even been vaccinated against accusations of racism, by having a couple of Arab-Americans on the good guys's side. I'm waiting for the secret plot by Old Europeans, assisted by our old friends the

nettime European Parliament Decision against Software Patentability

2003-09-25 Thread Felix Stalder
The discussion on software patents in the EU parliament in Strasbourg has triggered one of the most substantive political manifestations of the Open Source / Free Software communities in Europe to date. In Vienna, for example, there was a demonstration in front of the patent office, with a

nettime Request to Nettime to be part of DISTRIBUTED CREATIVITY online forum with Eyebeam

2003-09-25 Thread Beth R.
I'm writing to you from Eyebeam, NYC's not-for-profit art and technology center located in Chelsea at 540 West 21 Street. I hope you know about our work with artists, curators, academics, etc. since 1997 bringing technology and access to new audiences. Please check out our website at

nettime STUDY FOREWARNS ESCALATION OF INTERNET RESTRICTIONS

2003-09-25 Thread geert lovink
(usual outcome but shoking anyway. did anyone in geneva go to that presentation of this report? geert) PRIVACY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA RELEASE INTERNATIONAL CENSORSHIP STUDY FOREWARNS ESCALATION OF INTERNET RESTRICTIONS Corporations are now vying with governments to gag free speech and impede

nettime RE: reverse engineered freedom...

2003-09-25 Thread Ryan Griffis
from B. Holmes: I'd say that politics is all about the relation between markets, governments and voluntary associations (or civil society but the term's gotten too heavily freighted). These three poles can be found to varying degrees in all modern social activity... i'm just wondering what it

Re: nettime Request to Nettime to be part of DISTRIBUTED CREATIVITY online forum with Eyebeam

2003-09-25 Thread ed_phillips
I wasn't under the impression that Nettime was a community in even the most self-conscious uses of the word. It does strike me as somewhat humorous to see a word that is only vexed amongst the shipwrecked, weary survivors of net ascii discourse used to address a purported group that carries the