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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?"
Support Free Software, not just Open Source. Forget trying to make Free software corporate friendly. Look what happened when the OSI did that, it backfired and now we live in a closed digital ecosystem built on open source fuondations. Bruce was wrong and RMS is right.
Bruce Perens finds yet another occasion to plug Bruce Perens. Because Bruce Perens starts feeling unhappy when nobody talks about Bruce Perens for more than five minutes.
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