X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/796a623baa9f7b9bbc2beb33630a969ac1975a0c..20a677cead8da582b002b33af5efbf3bd809da2a:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index cf838afe4f..6b9b2be214 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,30 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + A Christmas present for Skolelinux / Debian Edu + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Christmas_present_for_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Christmas_present_for_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu.html + Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:20:00 +0100 + <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> + + + How to backport bitcoin-qt version 0.7.2-2 to Debian Squeeze http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_backport_bitcoin_qt_version_0_7_2_2_to_Debian_Squeeze.html @@ -76,7 +100,7 @@ reports. I also had a look at the bitcoin package available from Matt 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 @@ -111,8 +135,8 @@ with bitcoins</a> showed that at least some of my readers use bitcoin. 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 @@ -554,75 +578,5 @@ på mine vegne. BankID er ikke en slik.</p> - - Why isn't the value of copyright taxed? - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_the_value_of_copyright_taxed_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_the_value_of_copyright_taxed_.html - Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:30:00 +0100 - <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> - - -