There was just a BBC-documentary about Tetis on televison - and heck, that's the real story of cold war considering software.

Not only because the original inventor didn't get much money out of it due to the political system, but also because of the fighting about rights for Tetris. Nintendo won in the end against Atari - and it was about a concept. And the original inventor ended up working for Microsoft...

... a little bit I feel pity for him.

I just saw a TV-commercial for one of germany's leading news-magazines "Stern", with the title story "Global force Google".

And people still believe in "Don't do evil"? This headline sound more like "The new american army".

I dare to doubt, that the article will have stuff in it like: "The power gained from Google's network effects combined with it's altruistic attitude makes it the first humanistic global force."

Of course they could say, that access to information was never that easy... but centralized main-stream censorship for the whole of China never was that easy either....

I heard about this already some years ago - and despite the Daimler Chrysler manager supporting it, never anything noticeable happened. But it seems like since the start of this year, the project tries to get booted. The opened up to the public completely and have a new site!

http://www.theoscarproject.org

Damn, people - this is a huuuge project!! There's something in it for everone! Not only car enthusiasts or machinists! No, they also look for people designing navigation systems and the like! It's biiig! :)

My flat sharer is not so much convinced: "They need to find a decent CAD sytem first. And they need translators, I can't do much with english!" - Yeah, that's the way it works. We don't need guys looking for and collaborate on good open source CAD-systems, we don't need guys, who want to learn english to collaborate or translate. Let the others do it - and if they did it, then we can join and shout out loud: "Hey, I was in that project!"

Watching TV is sooo much easier - and it gives a good feeling, too....

.... for some people.

A preview appeared at youtube two days ago - and now it's there! Download it, submit your DVD order and get a good feeling, that there finally is an 'Open Source Toy Story'. ;)

Get Elephants Dream

P.S.: I was 24 minutes too late to submit it to digg.com ;)

I just returned from the doctor. I have been coughing badly since LinuxTag2006. According to the doctor it must have been the dry air, too little drinking, too much smoking and so on. She then asked me, if I need a sickness certificate and I jokingly answered: "Only if you can make this a chronic sickness and that gets me around military service!"

But on the way from the doctor I really started thinking...
Why the heck am I supposed to do that? For serving the public? In germany there is the alternative of doing civilian service instead of military service.

Why doesn't my work in the Open Source community count? Because it is not nationally limited? Because I do good for everybody on the world and not only nationally? ;)