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Open Source Spreads Beyond Software
B'Trey writes "Britain's Prospect Magazine is running an article entitled 'The Microsoft Killers.' The article covers the success of Open Source software in particular but also looks at how the methods and practices of Open Source are moving outside the software environment."
A Good example is the movement against EU software patents. A similar style is used as in huge open source development projects. Different sites such as FFII.org, the AEL Wiki, Vrijschrift, Eurolinux Petition are used. There are many core activists that contribute to email communication on different lists, monitor the net, take part in events, speakers for events and many supportes 8around 50 000 registered of FFII or 300 000 Eurolinux signatures). Registered supporters can be contacted in cases of urgent action. There is no strict organisation structure, contributions count and create a personal karma. Participants in the debate act as individuals, not as objects of an organisational ideology. If you don't like something, contribute. If you are not pleased with the organisation or action of FFII join another group in the debate and contribute in a different style.
Participants were able to convince the EU parliament by massive protests. FFII and the other groups of the network created a kind of watchgroup for IP policy issues. They were able to put light in dark backyard where patent attorneys and servants of the DoJ decide what may be beneficial for the information society.
I think in europe we were able to show: "Hacking politics works."
If you haven't tried out Open Source software yet (shame on you, why are you reading slashdot then) then its time to try some.
Start off by trying an open source web browser, such as firefox. I have personally installed it on several machines, and it works wonders.
Then try some more software, Such as Gimp, OpenOffice, 7Zip.
If you liked that software, then you may Like to try e Linux, the Open Source Operating System! It even works on Macs too! See how easy to use and reliable open source is. Try Mandrake or Fedora as they are both good versions of Linux.
found here
For anyone that is interested in the idea like I am there is a guide here. (It's a badly laid out, partially Japanese page with an English article though)
Hmm is open cola still active?
Tried the website a few times and it seems dead.
Opencola.com
For those too lazy to check.. Wikipedia got links to the recepie Open cola
Anyone got any recepies for Cola for someone who have Diabetes ?
[From Google's cached page]
Introduction:
Contained hereunder is a HOW-TO for brewing up kitchen-sink OpenCola. Amazingly enough, every soft-drink vendor we spoke to acted like the preparation of cola was some kind of deep, dark trade-seekrut(TM). With much reverse-engineering and creative shopping, the research kitchens at OpenCola have coopered together the following makefile for brewing up The Black Waters of Corporate Imperialism(TM) in the privacy of your own home.
The basis for the whole thing is the 7X, Top-Seekrut(TM) formula. Our sources tell us that 7X is the internal Coca-Cola codename for their syrup. You'll note that the 7X formula contains eight ingredients: still more evidence of the deviousness of the Soda Gnomes.
As it turns out, mixing up a batch of cola's pretty easy. Finding the ingredients is damned hard. Most of this file is about finding and handling ingredients so as to produce a tasty bevvy without blowing up your kitchen, melting your flesh off your bones, or poisoning yourself. As with all undertakings of great moment, read and understand the instructions before attempting to commit cola on your own. Pay special attention to the "Warnings" section.
This recipe is licensed under the GNU General Public license. It is "Open Source" Cola, or, if you prefer, "Free" Cola. That means you're free to use this recipe to make your own cola, or to make derivative colas. If you distribute derivative colas, you're expected to send email to the recipe's author, Amanda Foubister (amanda@opencola.com) with your updates. In the future, we expect to have a CVS server up to handle additions, bug-reports, etc.
The Formula
7X (Top SeekrutTM) flavoring formula:
3.50 ml orange oil
1.00 ml lemon oil
1.00 ml nutmeg oil
1.25 ml cassia oil
0.25 ml coriander oil
0.25 ml neroli oil
2.75 ml lime oil
0.25 ml lavender oil
10.0 g gum arabic
3.00 ml water
OpenCola syrup:
2.00 tsp. 7X formula
3.50 tsp. 75% phosphoric acid or citric acid
2.28 l water
2.36 kg plain granulated white table sugar
0.50 tsp. caffeine (optional)
30.0 ml caramel color
Preparation
7X Flavoring:
Mix oils together in a cup. Add gum arabic, mix with a spoon. Add water and mix well. I used my trusty Braun mixer for this step, mixing for 4-5 minutes. You can also transfer to a blender for this step. Can be kept in a sealed glass jar in the fridge or at room temperature.
Please note that this mixture will separate. The Gum Arabic is essential to this part of the recipe, as you are mixing oil and water.
Syrup:
In a one gallon container (I used the Rubbermaid Servin' Saver Dry Food Keeper, 1.3 US Gal/4.92 l), take 5 mls of the 7X formula, add the 75% phosphoric or citric acid. Add the water, then the sugar. While mixing, add the caffeine, if desired. Make sure the caffeine is completely dissolved. Then add the caramel color. Mix thoroughly.
Cola:
To finish drink, take one part syrup and add 5 parts carbonated water.
Scavenging and Handling Ingredients
7X flavor:
Measurement: I used a dropper purchased at a Shoppers Drug Mart (normally used to measure infant portions of medicine, I believe).
Oils: Oils can cause skin irritation. Wear latex food-prep or surgical gloves. If oils come in contact with skin, wash with soap and water.
I purchased all oils from health food stores and the herbalist store, Thuna's (see notes on gum arabic).
Everything could have come from the herbalist's. Try for 100 percent pure, undiluted oils. I used oils from the following companies:
CK Solutions, Ft. Wayne, IN 46825
Aura Cacia Oils, Weaverville, CA 96093
Aromaforce Essential Oils
Frontier Natural Flavors, www.frontiercoop.com
Karooch, Peterborough, ONT K9J 7Y8
When I purchased the oils, I specifically asked whether they were food grade or not.
Most Modern Linux distros put an Icon on the desktop when you attach a camera to do it. Sure in the old days it had to be mounted, but its all automatic.
Try The latest version of Mandrake, SuSE or FEdora if you dont believe me! The ONLY people who say linux is hard to use these days are Debian users stuck with their 2.2 kernel and 2.2 KDE desktop because its "stable". Moderators, please stop handing out mod points to FUD.
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It is important to observe that OS is different from FS. I think that the main idea behind Open Cola relies in the Free Software, since this movement cares more about Freedom (inside the software environment and outisde of it too).
r eedom.html for more information.
Please check http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-f
There was a similar, and very good, article in Wired last November, Open Source Everywhere Software is just the beginning ... open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. Get ready for the era when collaboration replaces the corporation.
Switching to Linux can be an adventure!
Has it occurred to you that maybe the did try youur fix and it led to data corruption, so they decided not to apply it?
/etc/sysconfig/harddisks or pass a boot-time kernel option to lilo.
Or that they did not try because they knew it would not work?
There is also a huge difference between Linux supporting your hardware and your hardware manufacturers supporting Linux. The former implies that Linux provides APIs and ABIs for which drivers can be written, the latter implies the makers of your hardware thinking of Linux compatible hardware design and driver development as something more than an afterthought that they community will address for free.
And if Linux doesn't suit your needs now, you may wish to try it it in the future. Things change quickly.
By the way, why where you recompiling your kernel to enable DMA?
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Pragmatism as an ideology is not particularly pragmatic in the long term. Keep it in mind when you dismiss Free Software
Microsoft is running an adwords on Google for if you search on "Linux Development Grants". I imagine it costs them $1 a click or so....
This is my sig.
Another instance of opensource-like license . The Simputer General Public License
Highlights of SGPL
* Any individual or company can download the hardware specification, PCB layout details, the bill of materials, etc., henceforth called "Specifications" free of charge. The act of doing so binds the individual or company to the SGPL.
* Any derivative work has to come back to the Trust to allow for further dissemination. To allow the commercial exploitation of the derived work, a one year delay in putting back the derived work is permitted. This does not however preclude others from independently engineering a similar derivative work during this period.
* Any derivative work is subsumed as Specifications and hence, they are also governed by this same license.
* The word "Simputer(TM)" is trademarked and cannot be used without the permission of the Trust. If an individual or company is interested in using the word "Simputer(TM)" in conjunction with their products, they can do so only if their product conforms to certain rules that will be put up on the trust website (and which may undergo periodic revision). The product has to provide a visual clue to attest it being a Simputer by way of displaying a logo issued by the Trust.
* While recognizing the possibility of using the Specifications in application other than as a Simputer, the License deems that such derived work be called "Simputerized" products. The product description should state that the product is "Simputerized" and provide a visual clue on the product by way of displaying a logo issued by the Trust.
* Any commercial exploitation of the Specifications (whether Simputer or Simputerized) involves a nominal one time payment to the Trust. The payment will be $25,000 for developing countries and $250,000 for developed countries.
Science as a way of life.
Its just occurred to me that the link I objected to could have been the guys signature text not an actual part of the posting, which would (?) enable him/her to change it after the fact, to a sig that attacks me instead
Either way it doesn't matter now. It's gone. Problem solved.
I just have to erase the memory from my mind with the help of copious amounts of chemicals
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
Actually Coca-Cola's recipe is no secret. They just do it better than everyone else. Here is real Coke's "highly guarded secret recipe"
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur
This has been going on for 2-3 years with Wizards of the Coast. Called the Open Game License, it's not the same as the GPL, but it's easy to see that they got the idea from it.
The OGL boils down to: if it's designated open game content in a book, it can be reprinted in another book freely as long as credit is given. This includes incorporating someone's open content rules into another, different rules book, and various other stuff a non-rpger couldn't care less about.
Amusingly enough, many rpgers are mystified by the OGL and don't understand that they can still use closed content in their own games. But there's hope for them: I'm willing to sell them closed content openers at very reasonable prices, and I'm honest enough to tell them that they're not allowed to republish closed content material. ;-)
To summarize, the basic OSS idea is indeed catching on, albeit slowly, and in rather surprising places.
I dream of a better world... one in which chickens can cross roads without their motives being questioned.
A bit of lecturing first.
;-)" who play their games by using magical methods to compensate for their weaknesses (pick-upers who use NLP methods for seduction make one good example of that).
Most people can't separate three distinct parts of religion (that is also called spirituality in modern speak) from each other. These parts are beliefs, morals and mysticism. There can be myriad systems of beliefs and morals, but most of the mystical systems have a lot in common. And "properly" can be related to the mysticism, but only barely. Most of the properness stuff is usually related to the beliefs or morals.
Beliefs are "Jesus is Lord", "No God but Allah", "Reincarnation exists/does not exist" or even "Communism is our future", "Human rights are mandatory" and "Corporations are evil". Ja, ja, communism as well as modern leftists' views are both religions that only pretend to be spiritual since they are not based on the mysticism. The essence of beliefs is "The world is the way I think it is, and it is supposed to be the way I want to see it".
Morals are based on beliefs, and describe one's interactions with the world in the form of "In this situation I should behave like that", "I need to strive for this" and "This is acceptable, that is not".
Mysticism is the way of getting to know your true self and transforming your body and mind. It is based on one fundamental axiom that states "Everything that happens with you happens because you need it on one level or another". This cause brings the effect "If you want to change your life and the world, change yourself". I can talk about mechanism of this process in details, but the condensed version will state that you have a lot of different motivations inside you, and they are competing for the resources of your mind and shaping your life according to their often simplistic desires. So, Guilt will form events where you either feel guilty or manifest it some other way; Judgement will make you lock the horns with others, demand proof or even send you on the barricades or Crusade; Victim or Abuser will make you play these roles et al.
Mystic gradually learns to recognize and shut off these "incorrect" motivations thus freeing the resources of his/her mind and redirecting the energy into further self-improvement and creative work. He untangles and unwinds the true source of his beliefs and morals in order to forge and shape the true foundation that will stay with him for the length of his life. And it is sometimes not up to him to decide what will become the part of it. This process will also move him beyond many of his beliefs and restrictions or looseness of some of his initial morals. At some point he will be ready for the next stage that can be called spiritual development versus the psychotherapy of the first stage.
That process also resolves most bottlenecks within you and eliminates situations where you "hang", i.e. you learn to operate even in uncomfortable situations where you have no control at all. I know how hard it can be to achieve, and how ugly can certain situations get, but the result is IMHO worth it. Also go away pain of the past and most insecurities. They certainly still exist in reduced form, but they no longer affect your decision making process.
The next stage of mysticism really starts only after your intention is clear, your motivation is proper and strong enough, your soul and spirit receive enough of your energy and you know how to stay yourself even while inside a stampeding crowd. I know that in the modern world "only after" does not always happen this way, and it often spawns "immature enchanters", "closet warlocks" and "psycho therapists
This second stage allows you to get or strengthen all kind of gifts and achieve enlightenment.
Now returning to the Open Source.
One can open beliefs and morals (and they are usually open), but with mysticism you can't do that. Information needs to be given gradually, by stages, and only when a student is ready for it. Otherwise
Tigers respect lions, elephants and hippos. Maggots respect no one. (C) S. Dovlatov
First, i don't want to sound like an Old Father or something (this AC is only 21 :). That said, i'd like to point out this style where people (try to) achieve something in an open way by collabration is nothing new. The internet is relatively new, yes.
Remember the 70's and 80's? Vietnam protests? Activists? Punks? Anarchists? Hippies? Squatters? Autonomes? I'm not sure which collectives were world wide very known these days but i can name some "subcultures". They still exist, just in less majorities.
Humanity has done this before those 70's and 80's. Remember how a mammoth got caught in what is currently known as "the Ice Age"? By collaboration. Earlier method weas just all throwing the spear, or stone. Eventually a few humans would die, but there would at least be a lot dinners. Humans got a bit more intelligent. A few humans tricked the animal to walk to a specific way. Then there, a net would fall down, or from safe positions stones and spears would be thrown. Isn't that that same together we defeat this huge beast?
Right now, flowing from the 70's / 80's activist era certain "action sites" have popped up on the WWW lately. One which is widely known, is Indymedia. I myself colaborate at Indymedia.nl and recognize a lot similarities between the news which is posted by activists, summaries and translations which are put together by volunteers, etc -- and the collaboration between programmers. Our joint efforts happen via IRC, mailing lists, Wiki, IRL and the outcome on WWW is mainly presented on a CMS.
Anyone who is attracted by these "development styles" i can recommend to remember one thing: "the greatest enemy of the Left is the Left itself"; there's always rotten apples. Self-criticism is a must. I'd also like to recommend Kantian Ethics by Emannuel Kant, especially the text "What is enlightenment" and "Temporary Autonomous Zone" by Hakim Bey.
I spoke about rotten apples. The media, especially some in particulair, can influence the public opinion which doesn't know and therefore not understand certain things. Extremely dangerous for a movement; fight BACK! It scared me when i became aware what Microsoft is after...
For example take the SCO thing. All FLOSS people are terrorists who DDoS? . Come on. Now take 80's. All activists are unemployed, lazy crusts? Or terrorists, like Rote Armee Fraktion? Come on. When these stereotypes, which are only true for a minority, are accepted as status quo by those who are not enlightened you as group are all fried, most likely by the group in power (politicians and upper class / rich) who may not like you anyway.
Stereotypes is also the reason why i refuse to call a complete OS just "Linux" and comment every time i see it. Linux is just a kernel; it misses specifications, like "which distribution" and "which version of it".
(Please note this post unfortunately is quite full with stereotypes)