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Bruce Perens Calls For Open Source, Security, and Data Rights In IBM Ad (youtube.com)
Bruce Perens co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric Raymond -- and he's also Slashdot reader #3872.
Bruce Perens writes: Here's the IBM ad used to open their Think 2019 conference, featuring Buzz Aldrin, Arianna Huffington, Janelle Monae, Miaym Bialik, and astonishingly: me. Interesting of IBM to have an ad including Open Source, security, and data rights as human rights!
Web version with subtitles. Version used to open the Think conference, on Youtube..
"I would like to make open source software the standard..." Perens says in the video, adding "Let's champion data rights as human rights," and asking "How do we bake security into everything we do?" But it's a montage of different speakers who each begin their comments by saying "Dear Tech," offering open letters with their hopes for the entire industry.
"Let's use blockchain to help reduce poverty."
"Let's use IoT to help victims of natural disasters."
"I feel like you have the potential to do so much more."
"Are you working for all of us, or just a few of us?"
Bruce Perens writes: Here's the IBM ad used to open their Think 2019 conference, featuring Buzz Aldrin, Arianna Huffington, Janelle Monae, Miaym Bialik, and astonishingly: me. Interesting of IBM to have an ad including Open Source, security, and data rights as human rights!
Web version with subtitles. Version used to open the Think conference, on Youtube..
"I would like to make open source software the standard..." Perens says in the video, adding "Let's champion data rights as human rights," and asking "How do we bake security into everything we do?" But it's a montage of different speakers who each begin their comments by saying "Dear Tech," offering open letters with their hopes for the entire industry.
"Let's use blockchain to help reduce poverty."
"Let's use IoT to help victims of natural disasters."
"I feel like you have the potential to do so much more."
"Are you working for all of us, or just a few of us?"
So, I did this just for fun. It's the first and probably the last time in my life that I would be cast for a commercial. I got the limousine treatement to and from the airport on both sides, a stay in the Fairmont Bungalows in Santa Monica, a few hours costuming, and a 4 AM wake-up and 4:30 AM pick-up to shoot the commercial. I got the full make-up thing and we were finished shooting by 9:30 AM. I am being paid screen actors guild scale, and would get some residuals if they use the spot a lot.
Bruce Perens.
Those weren't in my lines. My lines were all stuff I would have said anyway. I rejected some as just being awkward and rewrote them, but they didn't make it into the ad.
IoT for natural disasters I can understand. For example, sprinkle sensors through a forest to detect when fires start.
I haven't read the proposal about using blockchain to reduce proverty, and that sounds a little unlikely. At least they weren't proposing to use cryptocurrency to reduce poverty. That would be like using alchemy to make gold so everyone could be rich.
Bruce Perens.