Raw thoughts: Open Technology Vision for sake of all Humanity

Open source is software that open and free for use and change by anyone, it can work or be adapted to work almost on any piece of hardware. Open source projects are made upon thousands of work hours of experts, all over the world, with ideological idea that technology could be shared to promote the humanity as whole. A few examples: UNIX, GNU, Linux, Wikipedia, Android, Firefox, OpenOffice and many many others. Nowadays we are living in era of prosper for open source idea, any individual can create something that seemed impossible before. Today we are sitting on the shoulders of giants, and we almost can touch the sky. But I think that we can progress even further with open source ideology. A few ideas I have on that matter:

1. Why don’t we legislate laws to make any piece of software, to be available as open source, for sake of humanity, after some period of time? But I don’t think that this period of time should be more then 10 years, because of huge progress in technology. Basically same idea as patents registrations.
2. To apply open source ideology on hardware, and any other aspect of technology like chemistry and biology, and maybe even on all the knowledge we have? Of course our private knowledge shouldn’t be included, for example diaries ( And maybe it should? Deserve a debates… ) , but almost anything else should.
3. Limit the period of time in which royalties required to be paid due to patent, and limit creators rights ownership time. I don’t understand why we let record labels own the creator rights that should belong to singers, writers and composers, and not to the record labels. I am not even sure, why should we allow patents and creators rights to be sold or inherited, and be used by huge companies to collect money for basically nothing, without helping somehow to the creation process itself. To me all these laws seems as legislated for already very powerful and rich elements in our society, and for them alone, in very injustice and illogical way, and they don’t helping or promoting somehow the society. These laws are taxes for true parasitism, why don’t we change them?

Is it about socialism vs capitalism? It seems to me that both of them failed in execution, in their pure forms. For example communistic USSR, where I was born and lived for 7 years, everything belonged to the state. Almost everybody was having roughly the same salary, of course the people with more connections got more. And people with more power got exponentially more than common people. But this system was wrong and deeply corrupted. Today I can compare this regime, with the one that I’m living in today, Israeli, which is much more capitalistic, and largely very similar to the US. It’s flawed and corrupted too, in different but also somehow similar manner. In a way, that already rich people, that own most of the companies at state, have a huge influence over politicians, and eventually force legislation in their favor. So the wealth going from poor and middle class people to tycoons. Each year we pay more for having less, and government just preserves the inequality. So we need to think logically, what can promote us as human society, to be better, as whole and as better place for each and single individual. Technology and knowledge should belong to everyone, and not just to the people who can bribe the politicians.

Emotional mess

Something very insignificant can make such big influence on a mood? One hour a day of loneliness, is it all you need to change emotional balance, sense of confidence, perspective?

I’ve been in stable state for a few months. But something small changed.

I had very bad mood yesterday, I watched the movie “Her”. And it kinda perfectly synchronized with what I felt.

A few things bothers me. I’m going back to University, hopefully in October. Study master’s degree. Currently I’ve signed up for 2 places, both of them should accept me. If not, I really gonna be lost, because it was my plan for last 3 years. If they’ll reject me, I have no backup plan, and it could be devastating. But I almost absolutely confident that I’ll be accepted in both places. And then, I should be at least two years at University. I’m kinda hope that I’ll continue to doctorate degree. I like my work, but I feel that it’s not challenging enough. And that’s what I’d like to achieve by continue my studies. I also hope that in that period I will meet someone special. It’s a big wish that I have, that seems to me like an impossible mission. But I still hope.

So there are small changes at work, as usual pretty much. And I’m a little bit scared.

I tried to remember some name from more than year and half ago. Because of some occasion that I’ve been invited to. Time goes too fast now. Months passing by like moments. It’s crazy how fast life become when you get used to it. And I couldn’t remember that name. Until I came here to check it, it was written here by me. And some silly graph that I made, made me think how it was beautiful, that it was at all, if that could continue, but it couldn’t, and it didn’t. Really silly. And I think how to decline the invitation to the occasion. Because I don’t feel that those people are my friends anymore, and I don’t really want to be friends with them. And I’m already know about something very important at work, roughly at the same period of time, but I can’t be sure. And it kinda silly to try to escape it too hard, because those reunions happens once or twice a year anyway, and sometimes we were kinda friends. I don’t know, I’ll think about it a little more.

I forgot to mention all the situation in Ukraine, that gets to me lately. Huge amounts of injustice, that I can’t do anything about. And it very frustrating to see how unfair this world is. I never really knew that country. I don’t remember the first nine years of my life that I spend there. And until recently I had no interest to know anything about it. But after last revolution there, I kinda started to admire its people, who dared to fight for better future and justice, against powerful government, and gain the upper hand eventually. But now, they are facing Russian occupation, and nobody helps them, and they can’t solve it alone.

There are also cats… And I’m listening to Kimbra all the time… Yeah bunch of random things. Tomorrow is a workday… So goodnight.

Islam against Women

We are living in the darkest ages of human history. About 23% of world population, 1.6 billion people, are Muslims living in Muslim countries, ruled by laws of Islam – Sharia. By rules of Sharia, woman is the de facto property of man, her father, brother or husband. So today there are about 800 million women, all around the world, who are abused, raped and oppressed, each day in every possible way , just because they were born as females in Islamic countries. They don’t have even the basic freedom over there own body.

In my opinion, people who don’t feel furious by this absurd situation, are damaged in very basic way.

There is one blogger from Egypt who are being the voice of women who not allowed to speak, her name is Aliaa Magda el-Mahdy. Yesterday ( 20 Dec 2012 ) she and activists from women’s movement FEMEN protested in front of Egypt embassy in Stockholm. They protested against Sharia that being proposed, by new Egypt president Morsi, as new constitution of Egypt.