Nicolas on Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:20:14 +0100 (CET) |
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Hello, i am looking for the birthdate of Pope Linus, the sucessor of Petrus. All i could dig out so far was that he worked ca. 75AD On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Nicolas wrote: > Greetings, > > Below you will find a press statement from members of the .net jury of > this years´ Prix Ars Electronica. You will read about the real paths > that lead us, the jury, to award this year´s golden nica to the > operating system linux. > > Best, > > Marleen Stikker > > > ARS ELECTRONICA PLAYGROUND FOR CORPORATE STRATEGIES > > We, the "net." jury, have just learned that next years ars electronica > festival will be titled "OPEN SOURCE". This has been inofficially > agreed on by the direction of the ARS and the sponsors Siemens, > Microsoft, Oracle, Compaq, Gericom and HP, e.a. From reliable sources > we also learned that the decision was made weeks before the ".net"-jury > decision on "linux". > > > WHY WE GO PUBLIC > > The *****above-*****mentioned IT-companies are involved in a linux > distribution joint venture and a strategic alliance. Their joint > venture startup will most probably become one of the leading linux > distributors, directly attacking red hat ***and SUSE***. > > ***This is the classic oligopolistic strategy. > They cannot buy linux, nevertheless, they will take control of the > distibution of the competitor.**** > > #####beginn comment##### > >----(ich finde ,es ist eine spur zuviel,mirosoft so direct anzusprechen; > >dass passt auch vom stil her nicht, auch die pc-hersteller sollten nicht > >so aufgelistet "an den pranger gestellt werden" > stimmt, hast recht, is besser so? > ######end comment####### > > We were suspicious before, but now we are strongly convinced that > there was indirect but heavy influence by corporate and ars executives > to reach the "linux" decision... > > > THE JURY WEEK-END > > It all started at the jury welcome dinner. For the first time, large > groups of corporate people were invited and ***were actively discussing > about the prix ars, and they were especially interested in the > work of the ".net" jury.**** > > ****Over this week-end we were contacted by several AEC and corporate > executives, for example by Dr. Jung from SIEMENS. They all somehow > mentioned that "linux" would be a very good idea for this years golden > nica.**** > ######beginn comment####### > ich glaub nicht, dass es gut ist, wenn man sagt, dass die herren von siemens > so direkt ueber linux als gewinner gesprochen haben. das wuerden die smarter > machen, und ausserdem will dann wirklich niemand mehr linux waehlen. vielleicht > sollte man eher schreiben, dass die herren immer wieder ueber die > kretsaiviteaet > von linux gesprochen haben; und ueber die radikalitaet des ansatzes von linux > und so weiter. > ######end comment####### > > Then, during the jury meeting strong opposition and pressure against > awarding our favourite (etxtreme.ru) came from one of the jury-members. > this opposition forced us to find a compromise. it was a critical > situation due to very aggressive argumentation. So "linux" just came > up as a good solution. we took this path, we formulated our statement > and came up with the source code as art work, with our position against > "beautiful" web-sites. it was a strong moment and we saw linux as the > perfect continuum to the 1996 awarded etoy.com. > > ######beginn comment####### > >----jury-weekend ist zu sehr eine erzählung----- > ja das stimmt - aber nur wenns so lang bleibt, wenns nur so ca. 8 zeilen > sind, dann ist sicher ein guter einstieg. > ######end comment####### > > > TERRORVISION AND THE LOGICAL CONCLUSION > > the information about the secret linux distribution joint venture > between microsoft and siemens ***made us alert*** > Our conclusion: the industry has strongly lobbied and put pressure on > at least on jury member to award "linux". we now have to interpret this > in persepective of next years ars topic. They pushed the topic. The idea > is use the art and science community to soft launch their linux > activities and controlled open source strategies. They do understand > that open source has evolved ***into*** a stronger development strategy and > they > have to ***jump that train*** early enough, ***in order to avoid*** another > "internet" desaster. > > So as artists writers and scientists we are used as lab-rats and cheap > alternative researchers. This is NOT what we want and it might also be > illegal in terms of independent jury-decisions. > > ######beginn comment####### > >alarmbells?kann man das 1:1 übersetzen?,klingt verdammt komisch > >lezter absatz klingt nicht nach entäuschter,aufgebrachter jury, > >sonder nach den Rächern der unterdrückten,die jetzt aufräumen-zu viel! > hab ich ausgebessert mit alarmbells. naja, die jury ist sicher eher > wie ein pseudo-robin hood, so wie die sind....aber ich denke man > muesste vielleicht noch etwas haerter formulieren, praegnanter, weniger > emotional, dafuer eben haerter. > ######end comment####### > ----- > > > NEXT STEPS > > We believe that investigative journalism is needed to prove this > incident.. > We will fully cooperate to make this transparent, if necessary also with > > *****additional (insider) information.***** > > For the press, we are available for background information and extended > infos on the topic via email or at our on the fly press conference: > > sept 3, 1999, 1715h > brucknerhaus in linz > > > ######beginn comment####### > >das war dre erste blick, ich muss es auch noch öfter durchgehen, > >grossteils wirklich gut------ > ja, mir gfallts auch, ein paar dinge sind mir noch aufgefallen: > . es wird zu poft von "this" gesprochen" > . ich glaub man weiss beim lesen nicht genau, wenn man den > hoehepunkt, den skandal gelesen hat. is es dass die corporate > players beim jury weekend da waren ? oder was dass joint > venture? > oder die beeinflussung? oder was? > ######end comment####### > > > ok, das von liz. > > ich hab jetzt noicht so viel aktiv ausgebessert, werd mir´s nochmal > vornehmen am nachmittag .... > > lg > > lizvlx (auch von TCP, der heut den ganzen tag nur schlaft, weil > A > hans_extrem nicht da ist)` > And i know people on this list do not have spare money > from checking my bank accounts for donations a while ago. > Was by the way wondering today about setting up a public > phone here, it had been introduced here in 1919 with disastrous > consequences for the financial system and was therefore? removed before > i was born. But the idea seemed > flawed, my mother said nobody needs a public phone here. > > Mark Andrew Holmes wrote: > > > > --- Nicolas Scharnagl <scharn@bluewin.ch> wrote: > > > But the ink would be quite expensive. > > > > Ink, paper, printing and bookbinding, all expensive. > > Not to mention the sheer volume of time and energy > > expenditure indexing and wading through all that > > redundant stuff and other trash material would entail. > > > > Anybody want to go for it? LOL > > > > Mark A. Holmes # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net