I had the honour and pleasure of starting this thing. I see the Wikiproject article was created 09:15, 13 February 2005. I made some convention for adding the lat/lon coordinates, which then linked to a small website that had proper link to various map resources (this was before OpenStreetMap). I documented it, then manually added links to a few articles, just to have some critical mass to start it off. After that, it kind of caught on, and now we have a million articles with coordianates, and a whole lot of super mobile phone apps and other applications I could never have imagined.
So you can bash WIkipedia all you want, but to me, this really shows the immense power of Wikipedia.
Wouldn't it be appropriate to use as many as possible of these vouchers for a purchase from FSF? Perhaps the FSF could make some sort of micro-edition of Gnu software to be bought for download (i.e. minimal cost for FSF)?
As far as I know, copyright circumvention was certainly considered. But the prosecutors (Økokrim) found that this would be no good, since Norwegian copyright law gives pretty extensive rights in terms of fair use. So there was no need for a ruling on copyright circumvention since there simply is no case.
The
Teletype
ASR 33 has a keyboard that is already
encoded into proper ASCII, and there is no need to have the printing mechanism enabled. There even is a CTRL key. Not to speach of all the fancy tricks that can be performed with the keypunch - but that is another story...
I think Jon knows very well what he is doing, so I'm sure he will do his part to try to get the right impression.
FYI, after the initial flurry, the norwegain press has reported a surprisingly balanced view. If there is a bias, my impression is that might be tending to be pro-Jon.
Major newspapers have even begun to bring quite decent what-is-hackerdom type of articles.
Jon has also used the Linux-connection, and it seems the press is really starting to grasp it.
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I had the honour and pleasure of starting this thing. I see the Wikiproject article was created 09:15, 13 February 2005. I made some convention for adding the lat/lon coordinates, which then linked to a small website that had proper link to various map resources (this was before OpenStreetMap). I documented it, then manually added links to a few articles, just to have some critical mass to start it off. After that, it kind of caught on, and now we have a million articles with coordianates, and a whole lot of super mobile phone apps and other applications I could never have imagined.
So you can bash WIkipedia all you want, but to me, this really shows the immense power of Wikipedia.
Wouldn't it be appropriate to use as many as possible of these vouchers for a purchase from FSF? Perhaps the FSF could make some sort of micro-edition of Gnu software to be bought for download (i.e. minimal cost for FSF)?
As far as I know, copyright circumvention was certainly considered. But the prosecutors (Økokrim) found that this would be no good, since Norwegian copyright law gives pretty extensive rights in terms of fair use. So there was no need for a ruling on copyright circumvention since there simply is no case.
The Teletype ASR 33 has a keyboard that is already encoded into proper ASCII, and there is no need to have the printing mechanism enabled. There even is a CTRL key. Not to speach of all the fancy tricks that can be performed with the keypunch - but that is another story...
I think Jon knows very well what he is doing, so
I'm sure he will do his part to try to get the
right impression.
FYI, after the initial flurry, the norwegain press
has reported a surprisingly balanced view. If
there is a bias, my impression is that might be
tending to be pro-Jon.
Major newspapers have even begun to bring quite decent what-is-hackerdom type of articles.
Jon has also used the Linux-connection, and it
seems the press is really starting to grasp it.