Thank you for joining in the discussion.
I would like to hereby remind fellow list members of the context.
I am sorry that Daniel Stenberg, maintainer of cURL chooses the term
"open source" in the following. But we should understand what he is
talking about. Call it the "free software pyramid"
In a previous post I stated that the distinction between subjective
and objective is necessary. Our friend Monsieur Jean Louis offered a
lengthy reply to this message, but he did not first clarify on this
distinction. It is okay to say that one does not agree here but it is
important to make
Thank you for joining in the discussion which started with my message
titled "cURL author receives rude LogJ4 security inquiry". (Date:
Mon, 31 Jan 2022)
Here is my reply to some points raised in the course of discussion.
On why gratitude is necessary, it is important to make a distinction
LogJ4 Security Inquiry - Response Required
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/01/24/logj4-security-inquiry-response-required/
On Friday January 21, 2022 I received this email. I tweeted about it
and it took off like crazy.
The email comes from a fortune-500 multi-billion dollar company that
The prosecutor and defense lawyers made their final statements
in the criminal trial in which Kyle Rittenhouse faces homicide
charges. The prosecutor played the video discussed in my previous
post to this list.
Now the defense attorneys are complaining that the prosecutor had sent
them a
First please let me make one correction: The title contains an error.
The prosecutor tried to play a video on an iPad, not an iPhone in
court.
I understand that this is a highly politicized incident.
Whichever side you are on, I would like you to pay attention to the
technical issues concerning
A ruling relevant to free software was recently made by a judge
presiding over the highly publicized trial of Kyle Rittenhouse
in Kenosha, Wisconsin, US.
On the night of August 25 2020, Kyle Rittenhouse shot three men with
a rifle in Kenosha, Wisconsin during heated protests following a police
Criticism is growing against Facebook after former worker Frances
Haugen revealed internal documents and testified before the
U.S. Security and Exchange Commission and U.S. Congress.
For many years observers have been saying that social media platforms
thrive on a business model which uses
VOX POPULI: Face recognition technology puts privacy, security in trade-off
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14452592
"Vox Populi Vox Dei" is the highly revered daily front-page editorial
column of Asahi Shimbun.
Interestingly, the article starts by discussing the origin of the word
"stigma."
BBC comments on the Theraons scandal. There is mention of NDAs and
zealous guarding of proprietary technology. Unfortunately free
software is not mentioned.
---
Elizabeth Holmes: Has the Theranos scandal changed Silicon Valley?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58469882
...
The
The sudden fall of Kabul and collapse of the Afghanistan government
has taken the world by surprise. The cause of this is summarized in
a phrase in "The Art of War":
Know your opponent and know your self. You shall see no peril in
a hundred contests. Know not you opponent and know your
A recurring theme in discussions of free software is whether we should
call the operating system "GNU/Linux" or "Linux". Debates may get
intense but we all overlook one very important point. We are
programmers and some of us have actually contributed to the OS. But
many people involved in the
When people see opinions on any contested subject the typical initial
reaction is: "which side is this commentator on?" In rare cases
someone may comment from a position outside the firmly established
camps. Those who have grown used to the framework of the debate may
have trouble digesting the
Reports about the personal life of Microsoft founder Bill Gates are
appearing in the mainstream media. Some charges sound familiar -
nearly identical ones were cast upon a different person a couple
years ago.
I wonder why this is happening. I see expressions like this:
"Bill Gates Had
Ali Reza Hayati wrote:
> I really believe my new blog post is related to what is happening to the
> free software world today.
> Boxer syndrome
> https://alirezahayati.com/2021/05/09/boxer-syndrome/
There is a well-known verse in "The Analects of Confucius" which
succinctly describes the
Jean Louis wrote:
> > Calling for the arrest of someone whose speech you do not agree with,
> > even if you consider it libelous, is wrong.
> Mike, did you send that same message also to the other side?
I had similar thoughts when reading the comment by Mr. Mike Gerwitz.
It is one thing to
I thank Mr. Jean Louis for taking the time to sort out the facts.
As I said in a previous post, I've seen several news articles claiming
that Richard Stallman "defended" Jeffrey Epstein. Now a reputable
news outlet like Washington Post or Le Monde wouldn't write something
like that. Richard
If the FSF Board votes soon on whether RMS should be reinstalled,
gives into outside pressure and decides to keep him out, the world
would interpret this as endorsement of the widespread view that
RMS "defended" Jeffrey Epstein. Now the individuals on the Board
may make their decisions on other
Richard Stallman recently announced at LibrePlanet that he would
return to the FSF board. Soon after this announcement, many articles
appeared online stating strong objection to his return.
I have read several of them and I do not like what I see. Repeatedly
I encounter the false claim that RMS
On Sunday February 28 (Japan time) the ATM network of Mizuho Bank,
Japan's third largest bank suffered a massive service outage. More
than 4,000 thousand machines stopped working. There were more than
5,000 cases in which the affected machines stopped processing after
taking the customers' cash
"Jiyuu" is widely used as a translation of "free" but it is not an
exact equivalent. There are historic and cultural reasons behind
this. One cultural aspect that is often overlooked by foreigners is
that Japanese is written in kanji, which are semantic characters.
The "ji" means "self." This
> Interesting story.
Thank you.
> Does the current translation of www.gnu.org show anywhere
> inconsistencies in that context?
> https://www.gnu.org/home.ja.html
The current Japanese translations of GNU documents uses "jiyuu"
throughout. The changes were made when Mr. Yutaka Niibe (widely
In 1999 (if I recall correctly) Richard Stallman visited Japan to
promote the GNU project and free software. At that time there was an
urgent issue: everywhere the term "open source" was gaining popularity
and replacing "free software." It was so in Japan as it was in the
rest of the world.
I hear concerns of the coming U.S. presidential election due
November 3rd. President Trump does not promise a peaceful transition
of power should he lose. 300 lawsuits have been instigated on how
ballots should be counted, with many more likely to come in the event
of an unfavorable for the
Excel: Why using Microsoft's tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54423988
The badly thought-out use of Microsoft's Excel software was the
reason nearly 16,000 coronavirus cases went unreported in England.
And it appears that Public Health England
The subject title was originally "Concerns about GNU Bison maintenance."
but I decided to change it to address the issue generally.
There is one way to ensure that backward compatibility is not lost,
through active contribution. This should be possible in most, if not
all, free software
software should respect the freedom of the users. This is clearly
stated in GNU project documents.
Thank you for reading.
Akira Urushibata
On May 2020 14:28:16 Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> >Pages that Google had ranked top in search result lists last year
> >are for some reason gone when the same search is conducted.
> >
> > This seems like a different issue though. Google is not you friend,
> > and you should not trust them.
>
Pretty much from our first encounter, Richard Stallman has been asking
me to translate free software and hacker ethos terminology into
Japanese. I have found some interesting solutions in classics.
To explain what a hacker is you first have to understand. Hacker is a
noun derived from the verb
In the article titled "Proposals for the new GNU/FSF relationship"
by Mr. Mark Wielaard I noticed the following:
> More generally, we think it is time for the GNU Project to collectively
> define its governance structure, in a way that includes all
> stakeholders, and that the FSF should
On Saturday I attended an "open source" event in Fukuoka, western
Japan. I visited the booth of an organization named LinuC which
conducts exams and issues certificates to those who pass.
I had glanced through at one of the textbooks they recommend. It
said that Linux started in 1991. It did
ikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.
U.S. v. Microsoft: The Inside Story of the Landmark Case
by Joel Brinkley and Steve Lohr
Thank you for reading.
Akira Urushibata
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