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Edited March 2015\\*
during Fahrenheit 39, Ravenna
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\part{1974 - 1999}
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Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do. Unfortunately, due to ridiculous historical circumstances, computers have been made a mystery to most of the world. And this situation does not seem to be improving. You hear more and more about computers, but to most people it's just one big blur. The people who *know* about computers often seem unwilling to explain things or answer your questions. Stereotyped notions develop about computers operating in fixed ways and so confusion increases. The chasm between laymen and computer people widens fast and dangerously .
This book is a measure of desperation, so serious and abysmal is the public sense of confusion and ignorance. Anything with buttons or lights can be palmed off on the layman as a computer. There are so many different things, and their differences are so important; yet to the lay public they are lumped together as "computer stuff," indistinct and beyond understanding or criticism . It's as if people couldn't tell apart camera from exposure meter or tripod, or car from truck or tollbooth. This book is therefore devoted to the premise that
This book is a measure of desperation, so serious and abysmal is the public sense of confusion and ignorance. Anything with buttons or lights can be palmed off on the layman as a computer. There are so many different things, and their differences are so important; yet to the lay public they are lumped together as "computer stuff," indistinct and beyond understanding or criticism. It's as if people couldn't tell apart camera from exposure meter or tripod, or car from truck or tollbooth. This book is therefore devoted to the premise that
EVERYBODY SHOULD UNDERSTAND COMPUTERS.

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You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract . This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.
You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.
Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
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Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge . Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.
In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us.

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Through this work we have come to value:
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
- **Individuals and interactions** over processes and tools
- **Working software** over comprehensive documentation
- **Customer collaboration** over contract negotiation
- **Responding to change** over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

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Shuttleworth's Ubuntu philosophy is scattered throughout his blog. I've collected them in one place here.
## Big challenges for the Free Software Community
**Big challenges for the Free Software Community**
"The real challenge lies ahead - taking free software to the mass market, to your grandparents, to your nieces and nephews, to your friends. This is the next wave, and if we are to be successful we need to articulate the audacious goals clearly and loudly - because thats how the community process works best"
## # 13: "Pretty" as a feature
**#13: "Pretty" as a feature**
"If we want the world to embrace free software, we have to make it beautiful..."
## #12: Consistent packaging
**#12: Consistent packaging**
"... Id like to see us define distribution-neutral packaging that suits both the source-heads and the distro-heads"
## #11: Simplified, rationalised licensing
**#11: Simplified, rationalised licensing**
"Im absolutely convinced it is free source, not “open” source, which is at the heart of the innovation that will carry free software to ubiquity ... But my voice is only one of many, and I recognise in this world that there are lots of reasonable, rational positions which are different but still, for some people, appropriate ... So what can be done? Well, I turn for inspiration to the work of the Creative Commons. Theyve seen this problem coming a long way off, and realised that it is better to create a clear “licence space” which covers the various permutations and combinations that will come to exist anyway ..."
## #10: Pervasive presence
**#10: Pervasive presence**
"... turning that haphazard process into a systematic framework - making sure that you (well, more accurately your laptop and your cell phone) know how you should reach out and touch the person you want to communicate with. Its about an integrated addressbook - no more distinctions between IM and email ..."
## #9: Pervasive support
**#9: Pervasive support**
"... why do people say “Linux is not supported”? Because the guy behind the counter at their corner PC-cafe doesnt support it ... This is why I encourage governments to announce that some portion of their infrastructure will run on Linux - it catalyses the whole ecosystem to make their existing capacity public ..."
## #8: Govoritye po Russki
**#8: Govoritye po Russki**
"There are 347 languages with more than a million speakers. But even Ubuntu, which has amazing infrastructure for translation and a great community that actually does the work, is nowhere close to being fully translated in more than 10 or 15 languages"
## #007: Great gadgets!
**#007: Great gadgets!**
"This world is increasingly defined not so much by the PC, as by the things we use when we are nowhere near a PC. The music player. The smart phone. The digital camera. GPS devices. And many, perhaps most, of these new devices can and do run Linux ..."
## #6: Sensory immersion
**#6: Sensory immersion**
"What interests me are the ways in which there is cross-over between the virtual world and the real world ... theres going to be a need for innovation around the ways we blur the lines between real and virtual worlds"
## #5: Real real-time collaboration
**#5: Real real-time collaboration**
"... people who work with word processors and spreadsheets have rights too! And they could benefit dramatically from much better collaboration ..."
## #4: Plan, execute, DELIVER
**#4: Plan, execute, DELIVER**
"Bugs, feature planning, release management, translation, testing and QA… these are all areas where we need to improve the level of collaboration BETWEEN projects. I think Launchpad is a good start but theres a long way to go before were in the same position that the competition is in - seamless conversations between all developers"
## #3: The Extra Dimension
**#3: The Extra Dimension**
"...an opportunity to rethink and improve on many areas of user interface at the system and app level which have been stagnant for a decade or more"
## #2: Granny's new camera
**#2: Granny's new camera**
"... the ends of the spectrum - the power users and the dont-mess-with-my-system users, are already well serviced by Linux ... Its the middle crowd - the guys who have a computer which they personally modify, attach new hardware to, and expect to interact with a variety of gadgets - that struggle. The problem, in a nutshell, is Grannys new camera"
## #1: Keeping it FREE
**#1: Keeping it FREE**
"... create something that weve never had before, which is a completely level software playing field for every young aspiring IT practitioner, and every aspiring entrepreneur. I believe thats how we will really change the world, and how we will deliver the full benefit of the movement started more than two decades ago by Richard Stallman"
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Unfortunately, not all of John Perry Barlow's vision has come to pass. Without access to online anonymity, we can not be free from privilege or prejudice. Without privacy, free expression is not possible.
The problems we face in the 21st Century require all of humanity to work
together. The issues we face are are serious: climate change, energy crises,
together. The issues we face are serious: climate change, energy crises,
state censorship, mass surveillance and on-going wars. We must be free to
communicate and associate without fear. We need to support free and open
source projects which aim to increase the commons' knowledge of technologies that we all depend on. [Contribute!]

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By Edward Snowden
In a very short time, the world has learned much about unaccountable secret agencies and about sometimes illegal surveillance programs. Sometimes the agencies even deliberately try to hide their surveillance of high officials or the public. While the NSA and GCHQ seem to be the worst offenders - this is what the currently available documents suggest - we must not forget that mass surveillance is a global problem in need of global solutions.
In a very short time, the world has learned much about unaccountable secret agencies and about sometimes illegal surveillance programs. Sometimes the agencies even deliberately try to hide their surveillance of high officials or the public. While the NSA and GCHQ seem to be the worst offenders - this is what the currently available documents suggest - we must not forget that mass surveillance is a global problem in need of global solutions.
Such programs are not only a threat to privacy, they also threaten freedom of speech and open societies. The existence of spy technology should not determine policy. We have a moral duty to ensure that our laws and values limit monitoring programs and protect human rights.
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> This article by Edward Snowden was published 11/03/2013, in Der Spiegel. Translated by Martin Eriksson (meriksson.net)
> Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36733.htm
> Source: \url{http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36733.htm}

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