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+ <title>A Christmas present for Skolelinux / Debian Edu</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Christmas_present_for_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu.html</link>
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+ <pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I was happy to discover a few days ago that the
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux / Debian Edu</a>
+project also this year received a Christmas present from Another
+Agency in Trondheim. NOK 1000,- showed up on our donation account
+December 24th. I want to express our thanks for this very welcome
+present. As the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is very short on
+funding these days, and thus lack the money to do regular developer
+gatherings, this donation was most welcome. One developer gathering
+cost around NOK 15&nbsp;000,-, so we need quite a lot more to keep the
+development pace we want. Thus, I hope their example this year is
+followed by many others</a>. :)
+
+<p>The public list of donors can be found on
+<a href="http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">the
+donation page</a> for the project, which also contain instructions if
+you want to donate to the project.</p>
+</description>
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<title>How to backport bitcoin-qt version 0.7.2-2 to Debian Squeeze</title>
<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_backport_bitcoin_qt_version_0_7_2_2_to_Debian_Squeeze.html</link>
Corallo in a
<a href="https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin">PPA for
Ubuntu</a>, and moved the useful pieces from that version into the
-Debian package. </p>
+Debian package.</p>
<p>After checking with the main package maintainer Jonas Smedegaard on
IRC, I pushed several patches into the collab-maint git repository to
I received 20.15 BTC so far on the address I provided in my blog two
years ago, as can be
<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">seen
-on the blockexploer service</a>. Thank you everyone for your
-donation. The blockexploer service demonstrate quite well that
+on the blockexplorer service</a>. Thank you everyone for your
+donation. The blockexplorer service demonstrates quite well that
bitcoin is not quite anonymous and untracked. :) I wonder if the
number of users have gone up since then. If you use bitcoin and want
to show your support of my activity, please send Bitcoin donations to
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- <title>Why isn't the value of copyright taxed?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_the_value_of_copyright_taxed_.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>While working on a
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">Norwegian
-translation of the Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig</a> (76% done),
-which cover the problems with todays copyright law and how it stifles
-creativity, one idea occurred to me. The idea is to get the tax
-office to help make more works enter the public domain and also help
-make it easier to clear rights for using copyrighted works.</p>
-
-<p>I mentioned this idea briefly during Yesterdays
-<a href="http://www.farmann.no/2012/11/14/john-perry-barlow-in-oslo-friday-nov-16
--15-30-19-00/">presentation
-by John Perry Barlow</a>, and concluded that it was best to put it
-in writing for a wider audience. The idea is not really based on the
-argument that copyrighted works are "intellectual property", as the
-core requirement is that copyrighted work have value for the copyright
-holder and the tax office like to collect their share from any value
-controlled by the citizens in a country. I'm sharing the idea here to
-let others consider it and perhaps shoot it down with a fresh set of
-arguments.</p>
-
-<p>Most valuables are taxed by the government. At least here in
-Norway, the amount of money you have, the value of our land property,
-the value of your house, the value of your car, the value of our
-stocks and other valuables are all added together. If the tax value
-of these values exceed your debt, you have to pay the tax office some
-taxes for these values. And copyrighted work have value. It have
-value for the rights holder, who can earn money selling access to the
-work. But it is not included in the tax calculations? Why not?</p>
-
-<p>If the government want to tax copyrighted works, it would want to
-maintain a database of all the copyrighted works and who are the
-rights holders for a given works, to be able to associate the works
-value to the right citizen or company for tax purposes. If such
-database exist, it will become a lot easier to find out who to talk to
-for clearing permissions to use a copyrighted work, which is a very
-hard operation with todays copyright law. To ensure that copyright
-holders keep the database up-to-date, it would have to become a
-requirement to be able to collect money for granting access to
-copyrighted works that the work is listed in the database with the
-correct right holder.</p>
-
-<p>If copyright causes copyright holders to have to pay more taxes,
-they will have a small incentive to "disown" their copyright, and let
-the work enter the public domain. For works with several right holders
-one of the right holders could state (and get it registered in the
-database) that she do not need to be consulted when clearing rights to
-use the work in question and thus will not get any income from that
-work. Stating this would have to be impossible to revert and stop the
-tax office from adding the value of that work to the given citizens
-tax calculation. I assume the copyright law would stay the same,
-allowing creators to pick a license of their choosing, and also
-allowing them to put their work directly in the public domain. The
-existence of such database will make it even easier to clear rights,
-and if the right holders listed in the database is taxed, this system
-would increase the amount of works that enter the public domain.</p>
-
-<p>The effect would be that the tax office help to make it easier to
-get rights to use the works that have not yet entered the public
-domain and help to get more work into the public domain and .</p>
-
-<p>Why have such taxing not happened yet? I am sure the tax office
-would like to tax copyrighted work values if they could.</p>
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