Newest Blog-identity-crisis is over, now this is honestly amette's Open Blog.

Hope you'll like the stuff..

00:08:45 mose ~mose@mose.tikiwiki hat #tikiwiki-de betreten
00:09:05 mose : no bot here
00:09:17 toggg : ))Sm0kEr((,
00:09:30 mose : he's not a bot
00:09:40 mose : he's gsmoker, a member of tikiwiki community
00:10:06 toggg : ))Sm0kEr(( ah ? c'est indro ?
00:10:22 mose : pff
00:10:29 toggg : ))Sm0kEr((, zeige page
00:10:32 ))Sm0kEr(( : toggg: bilder, downloads, forum, freund, nachricht, news, punkte, registrieren, spiele, umfragen, voten, and wiki
00:10:32 mose ~mose@mose.tikiwiki hat #tikiwiki-de verlassen

That's of course pretty clear, but never the less: think of it! Think of it concretely from this point of view!

Copyleft is a completely legal method of almost-circumventing the restrictions legislation makes on brainwork.

Our forefathers made the best decisions they could! And I won't never ever blame them for doing those decisions! Hell, they gave us the opportunity to create a totally legal Copyleft based on Copyright!

So where are we headin'?

Based on the developing conciousness of the masses and a truely networked world we could be heading to a really desirable future in which rules what I shall call the Kant'sche Copyright:

Thou shalt only do those kind of things to information, of those thou desire to become a general maxim for the usage of information!

So foul and fair a day I have not seen!

... and this post, too.

Because it's my first posting to a blog without knowing, where I actually want to go.

Today I wanted to change the license of the http://amette.bergwerk-medien.de wiki and couldn't do it. The critical input for my change of mind was the first comment on Lessig's blog entry about the advent of a Creative Commons Wiki-license. I really do dislike the diversification of OSI-approved licenses. Directly after reading it I was just slammed to the mental ground! It released such a storm of different thoughts, that I'm not able to recall even one at the moment.

Licensing is 'pretty' easy, when you know, where you're going. But http://amette.bergwerk-medien.de's wiki hasn't got a mission, not even an initial set of pages that could show a direction. So ANY license could cripple further evolution.

The artistic license would have been a good choice or why not the 'Fair License'. It's that simple and short, that I can quote it here:

Usage of the works is permitted provided that this instrument is retained with the works, so that any entity that uses the works is notified of this instrument.
DISCLAIMER: THE WORKS ARE WITHOUT WARRANTY.

2004, Fair License: rhid.com/fair

I intentionally opted out of looking up a license out of the OSI-ones I liked, just because of me disliking the fact of diversification of licenses. I decided to go with a creative commons one and chose a, like I thought, fair trade off. But now I'm standing here even less than as clever as before. I even think of changing the license to a pure ShareAlike-one, that's the only attribute I can definately say of that I do really care about! And while writing the last sentence I looked up the Creative Commons for a link to such a license.
Hmmm, now, that's interesting!!
It's only available in version 1.0. Since they went to 2.0 every single license includes the Attribution-tag. No other way to go with a current license! (I knew there was something, that drew me into using an Attribution-one!).

Ok, so there's some more to investigate and think of, I think I'll close this post now.

Bye and try to sleep better, than I will!

Just realized, that I got absolutely no clue, where to post this, so I'll "soft-cross-post".

# ln -s random-thoughts media-mining

Yesterday I stomped an innocent little sucker into the ground...
I just disassembled him with brute force of words...
And underlined my statement with the evilest set of eyes I could find in my repertoire...
I think I was pretty convincing, even my Püppi wanted to stop me. If it wouldn't have been for two other guys who couldn't stand laughing their asses off, situation could have been badly received.
All this just happend! This little guy was a born victim and I was there to abuse him!

That was not cool!

Well, I have to admit, this little pervert ego of mine liked the mental discussion masturbation that was going on... (wee, now I feel used by my uber-ich)

Today I got some real problem with assessing my actions. I don't think that I did evil and I even don't think, that this guy has taken it too seriously. But was it good for the cause? Did it help to spread the word? Is a carpet bombing of arguments really capable of convincing anybody? To be honest, I think that in this case it was the right thing. At least this guy has something to think of. Probably he won't do it, but his neural network got conditioned so the next time he's confronted with this cause, he's going to think. And at least two other formerly unbiased people in the room got to hear the basic set of arguments and I guess now they are at least aware of the problems at hand. Two guys, knowing how to take the whole thing, had a great show and one more had a good time, too, I think. Also my Püppi liked it, although she might have been a little embarrassed from time to time... sorry ;)

Next time I'll just chit-chat about the topic with this guy, but yesterday he got a necessary preparation for this. His lack of arguments for his point of view really convinced me that he needed it. He really seems to have no clue, what he's representing. Hell, I would have done better fighting for his side than he did!

Oh, you want to know what this whole 'argument' was about?
Poor bastard is a Microsoft fan and I used it to pick a quarrel about intellectual property and patents.

Yeah, I'm a fanatic, a fanatic who doesn't want to draw a thin red line...