21 Aug 2012 04:45
[clug] FOSS and the 16th Century Reformation: recasting martin luther's 95 theses for What We Do.
here's a challenge to CLUG crew: Can we rewrite/translate Martin Luther's "95 Theses" for FOSS?? Even identify a useful subset? Dan Klein started this with #5 and #88 in a 2004 Usenix/Lisa paper. It'd be both a fun intellectual exercise and may also inform "Why we do what we do". Flying Linux <http://static.usenix.org/event/lisa04/tech/talks/klein.pdf> [The previous slide has a nice pic of Linus as Martin Luther] Two of the 95 Theses “Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences” #5 The pope has neither the will nor the power to remit any penalties beyond those imposed either at his own discretion or by canon law. ==> No Licensing Fees! #88 Surely a greater good could be done to the church if the pope were to bestow these remissions and dispensations, not once, as now, but a hundred times a day, for the benefit of any believer whatever. ==> Open Source is Good! The Theses: <http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/95_Theses>(Continue reading)

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