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3.25.2009
What is green?
My understanding of green came over the years of hacking around European and national policies. I don't say I've been there for 10 years, it's close to more than half of that.
1. Green is responsibility,
for your own actions, how you live and what impact that have. Environment is the top issue here, but there are others. Others like
- you buy a product, where it came from? You may have idea what the company behind it put there, but is it the whole story? Ain't. It may be produced under some anti-human rights government, in some "let's be quickly a millionaire" company and also giving boost somewhere to stock market. Does it sounds complicated? Yes it does, and Yes you should care because you are responsible for it. People tend to say, it's not my problem. It is. Because now you can see the responsibility in the wrong countries under extreme governments, slavery in some let's be rich ASAP companies, destroying everything on the way, nature, people, rights. And the stock market? Don't get me started, you should watch news for last two years where the responsibility is there.
- corporations, I've been told many times that they have the right to stabilize their position on the market. That is true but they missed the point. There are too many obvious examples of stabilization in the market by corrupting government officials, money playing the only role and purpose, nature vandalism and species extinction, doing pretty much anything to drive competition out of the market, burning the ships, enslaving consumers into software and hardware technologies, vendor lock-in. People who know me will go, ah Microsoft again, this is not only Microsoft, this is any regular Corporation style and there are thousands of them. You just don't see that.
2. Green is transparency and openness,
I like some of the Nordic countries approach to that, citizens can actually read emails of high government officials. One Minister got busted lately for some nasty stuff with hookers, and this was actually found by newspaper people. This is what I call transparency. People should be able to see what is getting done by their money,
it's not only projects and spending of tax payers money, it's also the position who
execute them. We deserve to know why and how the deals were made, at the end we are
the ones paying for it.
3. Green is nature,
We as a species are failing this world. Driving other species to extinction who were
living here for so many years, even before we came here and whack the whole place. Stuff like climate change, decrease of drinking water, decrease of earth lungs. This is not only about others, this is also about ourselves. Do you think in 20 years we will have enough clean air and drinking water for around 9 billion of people?
That is the problem, we tend to make decision based on local, or better say present information. The big picture is almost always missing.
- climate change
It's here already for many decades, it's just get rapidly into public spotlight few years ago. Did you know that we are really living in age where if we don't make
serious changes in the way we live that in few years some things will happen on this planet regarding changing of environment that nobody cannot make it like before? This is the reality which I totally understood in Copenhagen three weeks ago, explained by the top world scientist on climate change.
- extinction of species
Extinction of species seems to be "relaxed" by the way we live, and some people even say it's the natural selection. When the species are hunted down by us, or we tend to destroy their last habitats, this isn't really a natural selection. This is a crime.
It's getting even worse, we are now hunting down to extinction predators which are the
top part of the ecosystem and which are actually responsible that we us humans developed into what we are. In a sense it's killing your own grandfather, destroying his house in the village to build a shopping mall.
4. Share
Money driven world isn't the right thing. When you put money on top of everything, copyright, patents, knowledge. In the end what really does matter here is only the money, not the content or the added value of sharing, for people to know, to live better. I believe that everybody deserve to know everything which was developed. It's maybe internet content, piece of software, access to technology. Of course the product need to consume resources. But why so many people work around it and get nothing form it, no added value, and only few benefit. In the end these few also try to rip you off even more, ruin your market and enslave you to be their customers. This isn't really the future I believe in.
I believe that people should have the same opportunity for anything.
- open source is green, because it shares the added value in the creation process, it tends to give your possibilities, opportunities and options.
- open standards are green
- open content is green
I'm tired, but only today.
1. Green is responsibility,
for your own actions, how you live and what impact that have. Environment is the top issue here, but there are others. Others like
- you buy a product, where it came from? You may have idea what the company behind it put there, but is it the whole story? Ain't. It may be produced under some anti-human rights government, in some "let's be quickly a millionaire" company and also giving boost somewhere to stock market. Does it sounds complicated? Yes it does, and Yes you should care because you are responsible for it. People tend to say, it's not my problem. It is. Because now you can see the responsibility in the wrong countries under extreme governments, slavery in some let's be rich ASAP companies, destroying everything on the way, nature, people, rights. And the stock market? Don't get me started, you should watch news for last two years where the responsibility is there.
- corporations, I've been told many times that they have the right to stabilize their position on the market. That is true but they missed the point. There are too many obvious examples of stabilization in the market by corrupting government officials, money playing the only role and purpose, nature vandalism and species extinction, doing pretty much anything to drive competition out of the market, burning the ships, enslaving consumers into software and hardware technologies, vendor lock-in. People who know me will go, ah Microsoft again, this is not only Microsoft, this is any regular Corporation style and there are thousands of them. You just don't see that.
2. Green is transparency and openness,
I like some of the Nordic countries approach to that, citizens can actually read emails of high government officials. One Minister got busted lately for some nasty stuff with hookers, and this was actually found by newspaper people. This is what I call transparency. People should be able to see what is getting done by their money,
it's not only projects and spending of tax payers money, it's also the position who
execute them. We deserve to know why and how the deals were made, at the end we are
the ones paying for it.
3. Green is nature,
We as a species are failing this world. Driving other species to extinction who were
living here for so many years, even before we came here and whack the whole place. Stuff like climate change, decrease of drinking water, decrease of earth lungs. This is not only about others, this is also about ourselves. Do you think in 20 years we will have enough clean air and drinking water for around 9 billion of people?
That is the problem, we tend to make decision based on local, or better say present information. The big picture is almost always missing.
- climate change
It's here already for many decades, it's just get rapidly into public spotlight few years ago. Did you know that we are really living in age where if we don't make
serious changes in the way we live that in few years some things will happen on this planet regarding changing of environment that nobody cannot make it like before? This is the reality which I totally understood in Copenhagen three weeks ago, explained by the top world scientist on climate change.
- extinction of species
Extinction of species seems to be "relaxed" by the way we live, and some people even say it's the natural selection. When the species are hunted down by us, or we tend to destroy their last habitats, this isn't really a natural selection. This is a crime.
It's getting even worse, we are now hunting down to extinction predators which are the
top part of the ecosystem and which are actually responsible that we us humans developed into what we are. In a sense it's killing your own grandfather, destroying his house in the village to build a shopping mall.
4. Share
Money driven world isn't the right thing. When you put money on top of everything, copyright, patents, knowledge. In the end what really does matter here is only the money, not the content or the added value of sharing, for people to know, to live better. I believe that everybody deserve to know everything which was developed. It's maybe internet content, piece of software, access to technology. Of course the product need to consume resources. But why so many people work around it and get nothing form it, no added value, and only few benefit. In the end these few also try to rip you off even more, ruin your market and enslave you to be their customers. This isn't really the future I believe in.
I believe that people should have the same opportunity for anything.
- open source is green, because it shares the added value in the creation process, it tends to give your possibilities, opportunities and options.
- open standards are green
- open content is green
I'm tired, but only today.
3.06.2009
CNBC is a joke, evil one
Point of view for stock market by CNBC was ridiculous for some years now, there is nothing new there. Few days before Bear and Sterns felt totally they were promising fake securities over the company. Now everybody knows it was the beginning of the end of area for traditional western life.
I was reminded today by Jon Stewart how responsible and accurate they actually are.
Jon actually forgot one thing, how evil they are. Do you remember last year who was the major media for streaming summer games in Beijing? It was CNBC! And they got us really nasty.
Do you know what is silverlight? I just wonder how much Microsoft actually paid for "research" of such good marketing quote. It's just another Microsoft vendor lock-in, screw market, slave customers and sink competition (Adobe? Linux? everybody else?). Did I mention that it runs on many operating systems? Three already! in Windows XP is featured by free download,in Windows Vista it's probably included by default, I don't know it for sure, I never used that crap. Third one is the new let's make more revenue since everybody just hates Vista and we spend so much money on advertising and research and development also fancy called R&D. So catchy.
Guess what?
Summer games were streamed via silverlight! Oh man, that's a good one,
for morons the silverlight link was just at the top of cnbc.com for easy spotting, anyway if you clicked on the video the plugin just POPed-UP. Gosh! So easy.
To watch video using a Firefox,
please install Microsoft© Silverlight™
* Larger, higher definition video
* Watch 4 events at once
* Dynamic statistics and expert commentary
* And many more great features ...
Click To Install the Free Plugin
Can't wait to watch four events at once!
Wait a minute, it doesn't really work. Obviously my problem is this crappy cheap alternative that nobody really use.
It's Linux.
So Jon, there is always more to it :)
Love your show!
I was reminded today by Jon Stewart how responsible and accurate they actually are.
Jon actually forgot one thing, how evil they are. Do you remember last year who was the major media for streaming summer games in Beijing? It was CNBC! And they got us really nasty.
Do you know what is silverlight? I just wonder how much Microsoft actually paid for "research" of such good marketing quote. It's just another Microsoft vendor lock-in, screw market, slave customers and sink competition (Adobe? Linux? everybody else?). Did I mention that it runs on many operating systems? Three already! in Windows XP is featured by free download,in Windows Vista it's probably included by default, I don't know it for sure, I never used that crap. Third one is the new let's make more revenue since everybody just hates Vista and we spend so much money on advertising and research and development also fancy called R&D. So catchy.
Guess what?
Summer games were streamed via silverlight! Oh man, that's a good one,
for morons the silverlight link was just at the top of cnbc.com for easy spotting, anyway if you clicked on the video the plugin just POPed-UP. Gosh! So easy.
To watch video using a Firefox,
please install Microsoft© Silverlight™
* Larger, higher definition video
* Watch 4 events at once
* Dynamic statistics and expert commentary
* And many more great features ...
Click To Install the Free Plugin
Can't wait to watch four events at once!
Wait a minute, it doesn't really work. Obviously my problem is this crappy cheap alternative that nobody really use.
It's Linux.
So Jon, there is always more to it :)
Love your show!
2.06.2009
Microsoft brainwash of Slovak Government
I'm trying to get my mind off work stuff, sometimes it does work out. I thought city as wild as Las Vegas make me forget, obviously enemy never sleeps.
Microsoft is doing a PR closed event about their Interoperability in Slovakia. Guess who is invited? Government representatives, probably some news papers people for cheap PR and brainwash. What is on their agenda?
Redmond beast Wilfried Groomen, responsible for global policy brainwash of governments, and some other nasty interoperability experts from Redmond and Europe. What they will be explaining to our government? Of course, how they cooperate with all the vendors on the market and how they drive interoperability with Linux. Microsoft driven Initiative for document interoperability. Microsoft and Novell cooperation in China. Alliance of interoperability founded by Microsoft and having "vendors" which turns out to be Microsoft Gold Partners (doesn't seem familiar? ISO? National standards committes stuffed with Microsoft puppets to pass propietary "open standard" OpenXML?).
Release of 44 thousand pages of "Interoperability" which most of the case was under
the rulling of EU competition rules and in the end it turned out to be technical specification of products which Microsoft did many years ago.
Are they thinking we are really so stupid?
No we aren't, but the irresponsible government and their stupidity will
just nod theirs heads off to get great deals from Microsoft which at the end turns out to be more expensive than buying the same software via regular IT company which just resells software and can make better deals for government than Microsoft itself.
Microsoft is doing a PR closed event about their Interoperability in Slovakia. Guess who is invited? Government representatives, probably some news papers people for cheap PR and brainwash. What is on their agenda?
Redmond beast Wilfried Groomen, responsible for global policy brainwash of governments, and some other nasty interoperability experts from Redmond and Europe. What they will be explaining to our government? Of course, how they cooperate with all the vendors on the market and how they drive interoperability with Linux. Microsoft driven Initiative for document interoperability. Microsoft and Novell cooperation in China. Alliance of interoperability founded by Microsoft and having "vendors" which turns out to be Microsoft Gold Partners (doesn't seem familiar? ISO? National standards committes stuffed with Microsoft puppets to pass propietary "open standard" OpenXML?).
Release of 44 thousand pages of "Interoperability" which most of the case was under
the rulling of EU competition rules and in the end it turned out to be technical specification of products which Microsoft did many years ago.
Are they thinking we are really so stupid?
No we aren't, but the irresponsible government and their stupidity will
just nod theirs heads off to get great deals from Microsoft which at the end turns out to be more expensive than buying the same software via regular IT company which just resells software and can make better deals for government than Microsoft itself.
1.18.2009
Open Standards and Corporations national style
I don't want to talk about the corporations which just "claim support open standards" like Microsoft because is fancy, needed and good masquerade. I want to talk about the corporations which are participating in the creation and maintenance of open standards.
I seen some of their action in policy making in Brussels over the years, some of it even had impact. Not so big thou, but the money spending for which they call their own policy is enormous. So the question is, why they do so much on big level and then in the end get beaten by their own national branches spread around EU. For sure is it lack of several things. National branches actually don't really know what is the corporate policy, except budgets, spending and salaries, which they care most about, ah yes and the limit of sold merchandise or services over the fiscal year. But they do engage in the policy making via various association for IT, egovernment, information society. But if you look closer on their members you find really bunch of Microsoft goldpartners and service providers, few hardware resellers and these guys.
I'm a committee member for standards here in Slovakia, under Ministry of Finance, durring our meetings I saw a lot of people from exactly these IT associations defending Microsoft propietary standards, with the money of IBM, Sun and Adobe. White papers clearly discrediting ODF and proposing OOXML or at least DOC. You can tell what is next. Yes, it's the consultations from them to government who just bought licenses from Microsoft for like 300.000 eur in december last year.
I just came to the begining, the beating from the bottom, national branches are in the end acting as their own enemy to HQ office. Enemy within, because of lack of managment, interest and lot of selfishness in private business.
I seen and heard of similar actions happening around EU member states, espiecially the ones
not from the western EU.
It's funny, so are you guys going to get it?
I seen some of their action in policy making in Brussels over the years, some of it even had impact. Not so big thou, but the money spending for which they call their own policy is enormous. So the question is, why they do so much on big level and then in the end get beaten by their own national branches spread around EU. For sure is it lack of several things. National branches actually don't really know what is the corporate policy, except budgets, spending and salaries, which they care most about, ah yes and the limit of sold merchandise or services over the fiscal year. But they do engage in the policy making via various association for IT, egovernment, information society. But if you look closer on their members you find really bunch of Microsoft goldpartners and service providers, few hardware resellers and these guys.
I'm a committee member for standards here in Slovakia, under Ministry of Finance, durring our meetings I saw a lot of people from exactly these IT associations defending Microsoft propietary standards, with the money of IBM, Sun and Adobe. White papers clearly discrediting ODF and proposing OOXML or at least DOC. You can tell what is next. Yes, it's the consultations from them to government who just bought licenses from Microsoft for like 300.000 eur in december last year.
I just came to the begining, the beating from the bottom, national branches are in the end acting as their own enemy to HQ office. Enemy within, because of lack of managment, interest and lot of selfishness in private business.
I seen and heard of similar actions happening around EU member states, espiecially the ones
not from the western EU.
It's funny, so are you guys going to get it?
2.08.2008
EU to probe Microsoft's ISO claim over Office software file format
BRUSSELS, Feb. 8, 2008 (Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) -- European regulators are examining whether Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Corp violated antitrust laws during a struggle last year to ratify its Office software file format as an international standard, the Wall Street Journal reported.
more at cnn.com
more at cnn.com
Australian open source workers earn more money
Interesting article about how IT open source professionals in Australia earn more than regular IT people, I would say the answer is quiet easy, open source people are better professionals :)
IT workers who specialise in free and open source software are earning more than the national average for IT, according to the results of Australia's first open source census.
more at itnews.com.au
IT workers who specialise in free and open source software are earning more than the national average for IT, according to the results of Australia's first open source census.
more at itnews.com.au
2.04.2008
23,000 Linux PCs forge education revolution in Philippines
Providing high school students with PCs is seen as a first step to
preparing them for a technology-literate future, but in the Philippines
many schools cannot afford to provide computing facilities so after a
successful deployment of 13,000 Fedora Linux systems from a government
grant, plans are underway to roll out another 10,000 based on Ubuntu.
read the story at computerworld.com.au
2.01.2008
EUPL released under 22 languages of EU
EUPL, European Union Public Licence is a Open Source like licence, developed by the European Commission for usage in the public sector of member states.
Why Open Source like? Well, by the meaning it is open source but it wasn't approved by Open Source Initiative in US, actually no one even submitted it.
You can reach the licence in 22 languages here.
Why Open Source like? Well, by the meaning it is open source but it wasn't approved by Open Source Initiative in US, actually no one even submitted it.
You can reach the licence in 22 languages here.
1.31.2008
Wikidot released under GNU Affero General Public License v3
The Wikidot Team is happy to announce the open-source release of the Wikidot software. We are opening both the Version 1 codebase that currently powers Wikidot.com and the new development code for Wikidot 2, our next generation wiki platform, both under GNU Affero General Public License version 3.
more at wikidot.com
more at wikidot.com
Open Source in science and education conference
We will have a one day Open Source event durring the Aplimat 2008, which is 7th International Conference on Applied Mathematics hosted every year in Bratislava. Our Open Source day started last year durring the 6th year of this conference and we officially started the openacademy.eu project there. Openacademy.eu focus on developing Open Source project for their usage in education in Slovakia, and we are planning to make the project available for more European countries in the future.
http://www.aplimat.com/
http://sk.openacademy.eu/node/157
http://www.aplimat.com/
http://sk.openacademy.eu/node/157
Slovakia wants to host OpenOffice.org developer conference 2008
OpenOffice.org developer conference brings OO.o people from around the world to discuss the future of the open source office suite. This year Slovakia (SKOSI) is also running for hosting this event. We already started the preparation in December 2007, which did receive a huge popularity among our small European country. Sun, Novell, New Media Group, and few other companies pledged for help in organization, also the Slovak open source community is getting involved from different projects.
We are also playing with the Idea of making a co-event during the OpenOffice.org conference, which will be something like a Open Source Week, organizing smaller one day events durring the week, one day can be for the government, another for education and we can finish it with Software Freedom Day 2008 which will happen 4th time in Slovakia.
Right now the core team is around 10 people and we also have around 20 volunteers.
Wish is luck to see such great event happen in eastern Europe, nothing similar was here ever, this can be the first time...
We are also playing with the Idea of making a co-event during the OpenOffice.org conference, which will be something like a Open Source Week, organizing smaller one day events durring the week, one day can be for the government, another for education and we can finish it with Software Freedom Day 2008 which will happen 4th time in Slovakia.
Right now the core team is around 10 people and we also have around 20 volunteers.
Wish is luck to see such great event happen in eastern Europe, nothing similar was here ever, this can be the first time...
1.29.2008
OpenOffice.org dismisses pro-OOXML report
OpenOffice.org has dismissed an analyst report from Burton Group which claims that Microsoft's Office Open XML document format is preferable to the OpenDocument Format.
zdnet.com
zdnet.com
1.17.2008
Sun acquires MySQL
After all the industry speculation about MySQL being a “hot 2008 IPO”, this probably takes most of us by surprise — users, community members, customers, partners, and employees. And for all of these stakeholders, it may take some time to digest what this means. Depending on one’s relationship to MySQL, the immediate reaction upon hearing the news may be a mixture of various feelings, including excitement, pride, disbelief and satisfaction, but also anxiety.
Being part of the group planning this announcement for the last few weeks, I have had the fortune to contemplate the consequences during several partially sleepless nights (I usually sleep like a log). And over the coming days and weeks, I’ll provide a series of blogs with various viewpoints of the deal.
First of all, let’s point out a couple of facts about Sun Microsystems — since all MySQL stakeholders may not be fully up to speed about Sun.
more at mysql blog
12.03.2007
Council of Ministers calls on members to use Open Standards and also use Open Source
The Council of Ministers, the Council of Europe's highest decision-making body, calls on its' members to ensure a diversity of software models by mixing Open Source, free and proprietary software.
In a statement the council last week adopted recommendations on measures to increase the public service value of the Internet. The councils' members "should develop strategies which promote sustainable economic growth via competitive market structures in order to stimulate investment into critical Internet resources and ICTs." Ensuring a diversity of software including Open Source should be part of these strategies.
The council also recommends that members ensure their policies on telecommunications, broadcasting and the Internet make these IT systems interoperable by using open standards.
11.06.2007
Canadian Greens add FOSS to election platform
Thanks to a founding member of Free Geek Vancouver, the Green Party of Canada has quietly become the first major political party in Canada to make support for free and open source software (FOSS) part of its election platform. Like officials in the Green Party of England and Wales, deputy leader Adriane Carr sees the move as compatible with basic Green ideas, but IT consultant Neil Adair also points out the move serves the practical purpose of helping the party match the technical resources of more established parties.
At the same time, the party has come out in favor of net neutrality in its platform, although it is not specifically mentioned in the official policy statement.
Read the whole story at linux.com
10.30.2007
UK Schools warned off Microsoft deal
The UK computer agency Becta is advising schools not to sign licensing agreements with Microsoft because of alleged anti-competitive practices.
more at bbc.co.uk
OpenDVD v1.1 is a hit!
OpenDVD is a small project of OpenAcademy, containing Free/Libre and Open Source software for educational purposes.
Until today we received request from 150 schools, 3 universities in Slovakia and something unexpected 10 schools and 2 universities from Czech Republic. Right now we are slowly closing the availability of the OpenDVD for version 1.1 and we will be creating version 1.2 by the end of 2007. We are also thinkin about puting a new localization of the FLOSS applications and that will be Czech, since we are getting a lot of interest for this project in Czech Republic. We look forward to finding a new partners in this project from Czech Republic.
Let me know!
Until today we received request from 150 schools, 3 universities in Slovakia and something unexpected 10 schools and 2 universities from Czech Republic. Right now we are slowly closing the availability of the OpenDVD for version 1.1 and we will be creating version 1.2 by the end of 2007. We are also thinkin about puting a new localization of the FLOSS applications and that will be Czech, since we are getting a lot of interest for this project in Czech Republic. We look forward to finding a new partners in this project from Czech Republic.
Let me know!
South Africa adopts ODF as govt standard
Open Document format (ODF) yesterday became an official standard for South African government communications.
The ODF standard is included in the government's Mininimum Interoperability Standards for Information Systems in government (MIOS) released yesterday.
In the foreword to the document, department of public service and administration minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, says that "this updated version of MIOS contains an explicit definition of open standards as well as the inclusion of the ISO Open Document Format".
more at tectonic.co.za
The ODF standard is included in the government's Mininimum Interoperability Standards for Information Systems in government (MIOS) released yesterday.
In the foreword to the document, department of public service and administration minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, says that "this updated version of MIOS contains an explicit definition of open standards as well as the inclusion of the ISO Open Document Format".
more at tectonic.co.za
9.19.2007
Netherlands government plans the use of open standards and open source
Two days ago, Ministry of Economics of Netherlands announced in a press release a use of open standards and open source solutions in the government sector.
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english translation
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