Dnia piątek, 19 czerwca 2009 o 22:29:38 Alan Pope napisał(a):
2009/6/19 R. Steven Rainwater <srainwater@ncc.com>:
I just noticed that SFD 2009 is scheduled to occur on International Talk Like a Pirate Day (19 Sep). Is that intentional, perhaps to raise the topic of software piracy or something? Or was it just a coincidence? I'm betting the SFD t-shirts and artwork this year have some sort of pirate theme! :)
Clearly any free software event is going to clash with _something_. It's unfortunate that SFD it clashes with TLAP day in my opinion. There is a completely inappropriate connection between real-world pirates (currently Somalian coast etc) and their copyright-breaching namesakes. I don't see that a Free software event would want to be remotely connected with either of those no-go areas.
As far as I'm concerned TLAP day is one of those internet memes that should have died long ago with hampster dance and rickrolls, and shouldn't be connected with a serious event such as SFD.
I beg to differ. I, for one, tend to take the whole Free Software movement as a great practical joke of sorts - all those "copylefts", "all rights reversed" and "oh wtf has happened to all our business models?" are just great fun to tak part in. Don't get me wrong - I personally use and develop FLOSS; I evangelise the Living Sith out of my collegues and cow-orkers; and I do thing FLOSS is *the way to go*. But I consider the stiffness/seriousness of many a corporations a big part of the problem we have with copyrights and proprietary software. Let's be joyful and happy, and able to joke about ourselves and the world. It makes contacts easier, work more fun and a better image for Free Software. It's too serious a matter to be too serious about it! ;) Cheers Mike aka rysiek