Tout plein de choses, j’en ai peut-être trop mis. Je dois vraiment apprendre à me pacer parce que là, je suis pas top shape, je crois que je fais de la fièvre…
C’est pour dire, je devais présenter jeudi soir pour PHP Québec sur les microformats mais je dois reporter ça à une date indéterminée. Ça devait faire suite au Codefest qui a eu lieu en fin de semaine. À ce sujet, j’avais plusieurs liens à partager :
I immediately thought of this short story Richard Stallman wrote in 1997: The Right to Read
Here’s how it starts:
“For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college—when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan.
This put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help her—but if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong—something that only pirates would do.”
I took some time to write all the text: Good Copy Bad Copy script. I was going to translate it for subtitles, but it’s getting a bit late and, well, I didn’t take note of the timing. Maybe later.
Michael Geist mentions the recent Vista Cost Analysis and goes on. I had to quote the end of his article:
When Microsoft introduced Windows 95 more than a decade ago, it adopted the Rolling Stones “Start Me Up” as its theme song. As millions of consumers contemplate the company’s latest upgrade, the legal and technological restrictions may leave them singing “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” - source: Michael Geist
Ah, the joys of reading slashdot again. Here’s a little gem from a recent Linus Torvalds interview:
“One reason I really dislike DRM is that it is technologically an inferior solution to not doing DRM. It actually makes it harder for people to do what they want to do. It makes it harder to do things that you really should be able to do,” said Torvalds. - source: DRM, GPLv3 just ‘hot air’: Linus Torvalds