On Monday 11 August 2008 10:57:10 Nick Collins wrote:
> I do hope everyone attending make art will be using computers that they've
> built themselves from open source specifications,
There is no requirement for building your own OS, so why do you have to build
your own hardware, in your analogy?
> rather than relying on
> proprietary hardware.
Everyone bring their OLPC's!
Within the Linux community there is pressure put on hardware manufacturers to
at least open up their firmware and drivers...
and indeed hardware manufacturers who are totally closed don't get their stuff
bought by Linux people...
> The restriction below has a dose of fun about it, don't get me wrong, but
> I'm not sure how much of a distraction such a prescription is from more
> interesting questions...
freedom and openness are not interesting questions to you?
The question how closed source-ness hinders development of technology and
science as a whole, in the background of a society where science and
technology are highly specialised themselves in the sense that you need years
of training to even begin to understand the inner workings of these
technologies, even more hindered by closedness... that does raise questions
about democracy in a technocratic world...
"strong stuff"
> > The catch is that this is a festival for artists using/making free
> > software, and they're being strict about the operating systems this
> > year, so you're not allowed to use mac os/windows/other closed OS.
sincerely,
Marije
Received on Thu Aug 14 2008 - 14:40:11 BST