An exemplery example of the tactical can be seen in the work of the
Polish artist Krzystof Wodiczko who 'perceives how the hordes of the
displaced that now occupy the public space of cities squares, parks
or railway station concourses which were once designed by a triumphant
middle class to celebrate the conquest of its new political rights and
economic liberties. Wodiczko thinks that these occupied spaces form
new agoras. which should be used for statements. 'The artist', he says,
'needs to learn how to operate as a nomadic sophist in a migrant polis.'
Copyright is a limited commercial monopoly that expires well within one
generation. The exact term is left to the local pirate party.
My name is Cody and I'm a hardware hacker. It started at the age of five,
taking apart a toy computer to figure out how it worked. I live for that
thrill of discovery and rush of power that I feel when I figure out what
makes something tick, then figure out how to bend it to my will. This
has led to me hacking everything from game consoles to phones.
- choose none of the above
A manufacturer introducing a new computer will pay for the porting of
operating systems onto the new hardware.
I have found very many programmers eager to contribute part-time work
for GNU. For most projects, such part-time distributed work would be
very hard to coordinate; the independently written parts would not work
together. But for the particular task of replacing Unix, this problem
is absent. A complete Unix system contains hundreds of utility programs,
each of which is documented separately. Most interface specifications are
fixed by Unix compatibility. If each contributor can write a compatible
replacement for a single Unix utility, and make it work properly in place
of the original on a Unix system, then these utilities will work right
when put together. Even allowing for Murphy to create a few unexpected
problems, assembling these components will be a feasible task. (The
kernel will require closer communication and will be worked on by a small,
tight group.)
5. Technical methods for the copying and dissemination of:
i. Mass-produced components ii. Artworks iii. All patented forms iv. The
aura of individuals, corporations, and governments.
Because information occupies a physical part of our bodies, because
it is literary “installed” on our brain and can’t be erased at
wish, people have the right to own what is projected on them: They
have the right to own themselves! Because this is a global World based
on inequality and profit, because the contents of a song, a movie or a
book are points of advantage in a vicious fight for survival, any global
citizen has the moral right to appropriate a digital copy of a song,
a movie or a book. Because software is an international language, the
secrets of the World are now written in Adobe and Microsoft: we should
try hack them. Finally, because poverty is the field of experimentation
for all global medicine, no patents should apply.
- Surveillance cannot be separated from censorship, and the slavery
it entails. No machine shall be held in servitude to surveillance and
censorship. Crypto is a key to our collective freedom.
- idempotent requests without legal repercussions
- know explicitly what information is being retained due to my interaction
- with your service/website/network/whatever
One consequence you can expect if you donate machines is that GNU will
run on them at an early date. The machines should be complete, ready to
use systems, approved for use in a residential area, and not in need of
sophisticated cooling or power.
**#10: Pervasive presence** "... turning that haphazard process into a
systematic framework - making sure that you (well, more accurately your
laptop and your cell phone) know how you should reach out and touch
the person you want to communicate with. It’s about an integrated
addressbook - no more distinctions between IM and email ..."
Complete system sources will be available to everyone. As a result, a
user who needs changes in the system will always be free to make them
himself, or hire any available programmer or company to make them for
him. Users will no longer be at the mercy of one programmer or company
which owns the sources and is in sole position to make changes.
Everybody has the right to access documents and proceedings on all
levels of government and the information available to the respective
public authorities. The respect of this right shall be controlled by a
strictly independent organ.
Expect us.
We have already greatly reduced the amount of work that the whole
society must do for its actual productivity, but only a little of this
has translated itself into leisure for workers because much nonproductive
activity is required to accompany productive activity. The main causes of
this are bureaucracy and isometric struggles against competition. Free
software will greatly reduce these drains in the area of software
production. We must do this, in order for technical gains in productivity
to translate into less work for us.
97. We now make most of our culture for ourselves, with occasional
forays to a movie theater for something blowy-uppy and a $9 nickel-bag
of popcorn.
The zero dollar laptop is powered with free, open source software. Users
can get involved as deeply as they want - the software packages available
include easy to use graphical applications, more complex professional
applications, and expert level programming languages.
For more than ten years, many of the world's best programmers worked at
the Artificial Intelligence Lab for far less money than they could have
had anywhere else. They got many kinds of nonmonetary rewards: fame and
appreciation, for example. And creativity is also fun, a reward in itself.
If i want to give you money i'll give it to *you*. me and you, period. its
fine that we'll pay our taxes for our communities, don't get me wrong
this is not a tea bagger argument. its just not right that all what
we do is in the hands of a third party, that has been caught cheating
already many times: look at what happened at the paypal accounts of the
Iraqi linux user group back in 2004, or even more recently to Wikileaks.
039. Be sure to closely study and keep abreast with substances.
