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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.
Sheesh -- the proliferation of unsecured IoT devices *IS* a natural disaster!
Yeah, but sensors for fires really do make sense. And although the rivers here in California are reasonably well instrumented, I suppose that can use improvement in a lot of places.
Bruce Perens.
The best way to help a victim is indeed to avert the disaster. But if you google for it, there are papers on using IoT during the disaster.
Bruce Perens.
Funny to me they mention his slashdot id in a article that involves data privacy on an open-source platform.
I rejected some as just being awkward and rewrote them, but they didn't make it into the ad.
. . . like the one where you made a shameless plug for Slashdot . . .
Now that would have been über-geek: Planting a Slashdot plug in an IBM ad!
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
I am a name - not a number.
My name is Anonymous Coward.
for Ginni Rometty.
I was thinking of something along the lines of a carpet-bomb mesh-network deployment for restoring networking for existing communications devices in disaster areas. I heard that a big problem getting relief to survivors after hurricane Maria was just finding them. Getting in contact with people now isolated in densely forested areas after the existing infrastructure had been destroyed isn't a problem that should have taken weeks to solve. That could have been fixed in a couple hours of flyovers, with "IoT" technology we already have.
There is no question that some of these trolls are being paid to disrupt discussion on specific topics.
2376 here, yikes, and I did my IBM webmercials back in the Peace Love Linux days. I made the big time!
I'm gonna toddle off to my internet retirement home now ;)
I hate having to do this, but part of the reason that was possible for them to do was due to the fact the community allowed the dilution of the context of the terms "free" and "open" as they pertained to the Open Source software movement. I think that due to this (and despite the fact that I personally don't like the sound of the word) it is important that we distinguish "free" and "open" in this context with another word like "libre" which has been promoted for disambiguation of the terms "free" and "open" as they pertain to source code.
rare-earth minerals
Hahahaha....nope. Nothing rare about silicon.
Ezekiel 23:20
Exactly, and uses his old reliable /. channel to do it. The sooner this fool disappears the better.
It's a shame when you boil down an important issue to a false choice between a silver-spooned, entitled buffoon and a malignant narcissist.
You need a stable currency to acquire savings that in turn can serve as capital in a market economy.
Parts of the developing world has cell phones yet no stable currencies. I think cryptocurrencies can very well play a role there once you have a protocol that doesn't require resource heavy mining to facilitate transactions.
Yes, but any stable currency could serve that role, and the demand for dollars was very clear the last time I was in Brazil, when their own currency was pegged to an unrealistic exchange rate.
Bruce Perens.
I won the lower court case, and Open Source Security Inc. and Bradley Spengler took out a $300,000 bond payable to me so that they could make two appeals, and that money is being held by the bond company until the appeals are over. All papers are filed in the two appeals, and we are waiting for the appeals court to rule. The magistrate judge in the lower court case actually spent most of her career in that appeals court, starting as a clerk for one of its judges and eventually becoming head attorney of that appeals court. She knows exactly what the specific appeals court judges want to see in a lower-court case, and has a very low reversal rate by that appeals court.
This won't be decided in my defamation case. Perhaps someone with a copyright interest in the Linux kernel will sue Open Source Security, Inc. for copyright infringement.
Yes, it is enforceable.
Bruce Perens.
Heh.
Today I learned that I joined Slashdot before Bruce did. I did business with Bruce and the Open Source Initiative in 2006-2007, back when I was the director of platform technologies for Walmart.com. That was before we launched Walmart Labs (which was the outgrowth of an acquisition and a skunk works project I led at the time, Walmart Global). Bruce's guidance and input were spot on, and helped us steer the giant toward embracing an open source culture and leaving behind Big Blue.
Happy to see that IBM came so far in the intervening 12 years. At the time our biggest challenge came from IBM and the internal teams using mainframes at Walmart. We faced serious pressure to not adopt open source, and instead embrace zSeries mainframes and underpowered SuSE-based, IBM flavored bastardized virtual Linux servers. Sanity prevailed and, thanks to Bruce, we came up with a good open source policy that appeased the old timers and, at the same time, helped us look toward the future.
Reminiscing...
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No doubt. Problem is, these kind of borrowed currencies can introduce additional problems when there is no infrastructure in place to disperse the physical, non-legal tender.
For NGOs that operate in remote areas this can be a pressing security concern.
Met an activist once at a blockchain tech event, who came with a handful of what were essentially locally issued IOUs, they served as currency in remote Amazon villages. He used them to illustrate the need of the unbanked.
No. He stated his opinion that Open Source Security, Inc. was violating the GPL; they sued him for defamation, lost, and appealed.
Why is that funny?