... 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...

is definately English Cut!

Of course because I like the art of tailoring and am a fan of great suits. And as beloved O'Reilly's Make Magazine put it, you can see The Tailor as a hacker.

But more over and importantly, this is the perfect example for a guerilla marketing blog! I got this very uncle of mine, CIO of Finnlines, and was pushing him towards learning the art of modern networked PR. My very first suggestion - because it isn't costly and "just works" in propelling the company over its current horizon - was: "Start a blog! You first and then your PR-girl! Start a blog!"

Well, it seems, that it's hard to convince people working in non-geeky firms to use geeky technology for whatever, if it just isn't absolutely necessary or 'everybody else does it'. But hey, a company in finland (electronical communication's promised land) should get the point! At least my very favourite Tailor did!

And he does everything right! He blogs about the art he's in, he also blogs about his competition, he blogs a little about his personal life, he never gets aggresive on other kinds of tailoring(even mass production).

And if I ever happen to win in the lottery and decide that now is the time to buy a really good suit, I'll remember this guy somewhere on Savile Row, who gave me so beautiful insights into his work and environment. And after that his new customer is just a click away...

Well, I think, this post belongs to the said to be dead art of Metablogging. If you don't know what I'm talking about, gapingvoid.com again can help you:

Just wanted to share with all yours out there, that I finally made a WLAN-VPN-connection from my Püppi's ThinkPad?. Finally, yeah, darn, it took some time... not too easy, doin' it with a Kubuntu I don't know.

So, here's a random thought:
Switch to Gentoo as fast as you can!!

Yeah, I hear all you Debian'ers: "We've got apt-get, that's as good as havin' portage and I save the compile time. And we're oh-so-proudly-GNU!" BLAH!
I'll show you, that you're not the purest of religions! (btw. aptitude is cool, nevertheless portage is better ;) )
Like most of you know: with Gentoo you got all the things you want and how you want them. Building from source is really nice for speed freaks ("Hey, I use -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" - "Really?! And your code still does what it's supposed to?!?"). It's also pretty good for the ones, who like to boast about doin' everything themselves(chances are, you'll never talk to a guy runnin' a LFS-System ;) ). But the one best thing is: it's the best that can happen to a community(or should I say THE community?)!

Building from source forces you to use open standards, to think of interoperability, to communicate with your peers. I can get support directly from the upstream developers without a hassle - because I use their code. I can count on the bug-reports of the upstream developers - because I use their code. My distro's team is 'only' relevant for the things that break in my distro, not in the parts of it. For my kernel there's kernel.org, for my desktop there's kde.org and so on. Solve the problem there, where it came from, not in your Debian/SuSE/Mandrake or whatever forum, you feel connected to!

Use the power of the network in the spirit of true openness!!

Gentoo is a Meta-Distribution?, with a Meta-Community? and that's how it's supposed to be. If your reason not to use Gentoo is, that the developers have become as arrogant as the Debian-folks, why not try SourceMage, the concept matters! And I'm looking forward to the future, when compile-time equals untar-time... bye, bye, distribution-concept!

... yes, I did!
And gapingvoid.com had the right cartoon for this case.