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Lessig's Challenge: Are You Up To It?
Eloquence writes "At the 2002 Open Source Conference, law professor and cyberactivist Larry Lessig, last prominently featured here because of the Eldred case, asked some poignant questions: 'How many people have given to [the] EFF more money than they have given to their local telecom to give them shitty DSL service? How many people have given more money to [the] EFF than they give each year to support the monopoly--to support the other side?' Luke Francl has interpreted these questions as a challenge, and decided to chronicle both his donations to good causes and his less voluntary payments to 'the media oligarchy' on this page: Lessig's Challenge. This is a good idea if others imitate it: If these pages become interlinked with each other, not only can they motivate us and let us track our progress, they may also help us to keep each other up to date about 'good causes' -- there's more than the EFF, after all. With Harry Potter in theatres and Lord of the Rings before us, should 'nerds' also be thinking about supporting those who fight for our rights to, say, play DVDs on an open-source OS?"
How many people have given to [the] EFF more money than they have given to their local telecom to give them shitty DSL service?
Well, what kind of high speed access is EFF going to provide for me?
But, that's an interesting hair-trigger ya got there...
Where the value of X-Mailer: is the true measure of a man...
I tried to make a donation to a good cause. But I could not find out where to send the money. I couldn't track anyone down at all. So I guess SPEWS will have to do without my money and we'll all still have to deal with a growing spam problem.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
I believe you are confused.
Ducat n.
A piece of money.
vs.
Ducket n.
You can do what you please with your ducats, but please be careful with your duckets. Ducklings can break.
"Einstein argued that [...] God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer." ~ Brooks
And if you're a lazy unskilled idealist you could donate
If you're a "lazy unskilled idealist" you probably have no money.
Heh... By that reasoning, I *HAVE* given more to the EFF (I think it has expired, but I joined and got a spiffy hat and a chance to chat up booth bunny at Linux World a couple years ago).
:-)
So, $50 to EFF, $0 to Microsoft. Yeah!
As for my cable company... When the EFF offers a 1.5 megabit connection in my neighborhood (for under $50/mo), You'll find me one of the first in line. Until then, I can only hug my knees, rock back and forth, and keep mumbling unconvincingly to myself "Ted Turner doesn't own Adelphia yet".
I am an avid member of the eff. I donate my wimpy 10 bux a month. For me that is a pretty resonable amount of money. But in reality the most results I have ever seen from them is my congress man sent me a letter and stamped his signature on it. The problem is congress and other people are getting thousands of these, all the same...so they toss them to the trash they do not mean that much to them. You need to be forceful and show things that do not scare congress but the public. I hope I don't get super flamed for this but hacking is a real anwser. Not script kiddie shit or dumb dos attacks. But you need to show something that forces people to look. As a community we need to have targets and a well thought out plan of corse but hacking forces people to see through our eyes. I feel hackers get a bad rap and scape goated but in reality we are the protectors of the free internet. just my .02