I was envisioning for myself the Internet; soon after that I pursed a career in computer communication. Today all of you benefit from the work of the Internet engineers.
But, unfortunately, the computer you use right now is licensed to the most controlling and wealthiest organization in the world: Microsoft.
It may be difficult to conceive of how a computer company can be so controlling and dangerous unless you investigate the entire history of humanity and how information technology has been corrupted to implement control and cruelty from the very beginnings of humanity.
The first machine was built from human parts: it was the Egyptian empire's slavery structure created to build edifices to its elite, so the elite could live forever in the after world. They had no machines as we know them today: they rolled blocks on logs; they killed most of their slaves and workers with the effects of rock mining through silicosis poisoning.
This is a theme through humanity to the present-day blue collar worker. Even unions support the concept that the worker is part of the machine, to be used and broken for support of a system owned wholly by the elite. This concept is called human capital.
The military works in a similar way, molding youth to become cannon fodder. At the center of it all, is the same control structure the they Egyptians built. Here in the US, direct descendants of the Egyptian edifice builders provide loyal support for the President and the war in Iraq; they are the Freemasons and the Shriners.
Knowledge is treated exactly the same as real estate property. The globalist information protection organization, WIPO, defines this for us -- World Information Property Organization. They are committed to the acquisition of all technical knowledge and art into corporate portfolios, just as SONY owns the freedom lyrics of John Lennon.
Free and open information, such as GNU or open source, is referred to as being part of the public domain. The public domain originates with the wild lands that were available to everybody. As an example the elite European families created estates by illegally absorbing the public lands to implement a form of slavery called serfdom.
Colonialists in the America's did much the same, genociding the native tribes directly through murder, isolation, forced migration and disease. All the while, the colonialist information technology, as it was, allowed the expansionists to appear civilized and social through lies as they stole all the free land. Today, the acquisition of protected land through the process of eminent domain, allows municipal governments to destroy the last forests, installing the sub-divisions of suburban sprawl filled with the worst possible houses.
At the center of information control today is Microsoft; we are all paying homage and cash to the modern control structure at this very moment while we attempt to undo the authoritarian control that is destroying our planet.
What is the solution ?? Linux is.
Linux is a free operating system designed purely democratically and made available for the public. It is linked to the GNU philosophy and support organization, which is religiously opposed to the criminal control of computers and communication by the same people who are reducing our planet to the needs of corporate stockholders. While resolving the issues of information technology, the free software movement provides ideas which can be extended to all technology, especially in the areas of energy and transportation. A further extension of the philosophy can help us understand our unnecessary dependence on physical property.
The free and open software philosophies are not communist in any way, they supports free enterprise through sharing, through the high synergy and democratic developers of the public domain.
The very opposite of this high synergy, which is the meaningful distribution of resources, is capitalism. Capital is not money, as
much as capitalists want you think it is. Capital purely describes the inefficient centralization of resources, the piling of all wealth in central locations, all of which are controlled by the elite of each nation's dominant cultures.
The term derives from caput in Latin, meaning head. The practice of it derives from the highly damaging slavery-based Roman empire. I barely need to remind you how horrific their animal blood sports were.
Microsoft directly inherits the Roman Empire's diffuse communication and centralization network, as well as its mantel of acquisition and control.
Response from Rex Ballard
(rex.ballard@gmail.com)
Note: My original text is in italics
In 1989, I recognized that there should be a global free network for all the people to use to communicate. I was a mechanic at the time, and I distinctly remember the moment; I was spitting out a mouthful of antifreeze while pulling a hose off of a corroded radiator.
That is a bit funny. I can just imagine the 'aha' moment as you are dousing yourself with radiator fluid.
You certainly weren't the first to have that epiphany. The concept of a 'Free information exchange' actually goes back to a group of students at MIT back in the early 1970s. And even before that, the Civilian National Aeronautics and Space Administration had created an environment where technology was freely and agressively shared. In fact, from 1963 to 1969, when we were racing to reach the moon, there were amazing breakthroughs in technology that were shared freely among
the scientific community. Ironically, there were also military projects which were embedded in this technology that were top secret. The flood of freely available information diverted attention from the development of ICBMs, spy satellites, and other technologies often considered 'UFOs' at the time. In 1972, students at MIT wrote 'The hacker's ethic'. They advocated
the publication of technology in source code format. Keep in mind that the patent office had ruled that algorythms could not be patented. They had also ruled that since software programs were merely an expression of an algorythm, software could not be patented. Software couldn't be protected in binary form, nor could it be patented, until 1976.
In 1976, the laws were changed in the united states, taking effect in 1977. The interesting thing is that this was the year that Microsoft used it's "License' to push OEM MITS to purcase 'per processor' licenses. This concept, though expressed in many different ways as a result of court rulings, has been the backbone of Microsoft's financial structure.
I was envisioning for myself the Internet; soon after that I pursed a career in computer communication. Today all of you benefit from the work of the Internet engineers.
But, unfortunately, the computer you use right now is licensed to the most controlling and wealthiest organization in the world: Microsoft.
It may be difficult to conceive of how a computer company can be so controlling and dangerous unless you investigate the entire history of humanity and how information technology has been corrupted to implement control and cruelty from the very beginnings of humanity. The first machine was built from human parts: it was the Egyptian empire's slavery structure created to build edifices to its elite, so the elite could live forever in the after world. They had no machines as we know them today: they rolled blocks on logs; they killed most of their slaves and workers with the effects of rock mining through silicosis poisoning.
Microsoft and Apple both established the concept of technology based projects as the domain of the elite. The Open Source community, going back as far as the MIT 'hackers', was more focused on a more 'democratic' use of technology.
On the other hand, technology was very carefully guarded, and it's quite likely that those who were taught the 'sacred sciences', including electricity, chemistry, biology, and architecture, were probably enlisted into lifetime priesthood positions.
The irony is that today, corporations have taken the opposite view, often cutting staffs of highly skilled workers, encouraging them to spread technologies to other companies, as they hired sklled workers from other companies - again adding breath and depth to the technology base of each company.
The byproduct was that more and more technology HAD to be kept in Open Source, simply because there was too much risk in using proprietary technology which had been learned at one company and used at another company.
Response from Homer (s... @uce.gov)
Note: My original text is in italics
It may be difficult to conceive of how a computer company can be socontrolling and dangerous unless you investigate the entire history of humanity and how information technology has been corrupted to
At the center of information control today is Microsoft; we are all paying homage and cash to the modern control structure at this very moment while we attempt to undo the authoritarian control that is destroying our planet.
I.T. is only one front of the battle however; the influence of Corporatism affects all Industrial Society, and by association, all
society. For as long as there exists the ideology of financial profit, society will be driven by greed, corruption and exploitation.
Linux is a free operating system designed purely democratically and made available for the public. It is linked to the GNU philosophy and support organization, which is religiously opposed to the criminal control of computers and communication by the same people who are reducing our planet to the needs of corporate stockholders.
While resolving the issues of information technology, the free software movement provides ideas which can be extended to all technology, especially in the areas of energy and transportation. A further extension of the philosophy can help us understand our unnecessary dependence on physical property.
The free and open software philosophies are not communist in any way, they supports free enterprise through sharing, through the high synergy and democratic developers of the public domain.
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K.
/* values of ß will give rise to dom! */
Why we need Linux, Part 2
I am really glad this got so many responses, albeit some from many who couldn't resist pointing to the possibility of antifreeze poisoning; this is why I don't work in the computer field anymore: too many who don't use the intelligence they were born with.
Please note that the thing that is new here, is that the information technology issue goes so far back in history.
Absolutely nothing has changed, because the exact same types of people are doing the exact same things in the exact same way. Creating a machine out of people with a control structure was the only genius of the early elite. They, like Microsoft, made no substantial technical contributions. We democratic developers do that. The authoritarian technology system that Microsoft now leads simply co-opts the technology, meddling with it until it fails, forcing them to steal more technology.
I find it odd to hear linux users protecting Microsoft, criticizing me for calling MS evil.
Thank you, Homer and Rex Ballard for your support. As I said, you cannot go back far enough, it's like the plot to Stargate.
You would probably agree that every major innovation has been accompanied by a stock swindle, the Internet being the most recent and most painful for many of us.
The swindles precede stocks, though. Watt, inventor of the steam engine got robbed through the patent courts by the mine owners that used it to pump water from their shafts; he barely collected any money at all. The inventor of textile's flying shuttle likewise got robbed despite his patents. Both these inventions were revolutionary and affect us directly today.
