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  • @garymarkwatts 9:10 pm on February 2, 2012
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    Tags: #facebook, #twitter, Blog, , Google, , , Initial public offering, , Online Communities, Personally identifiable information, , , Social network   

    High voltage sign. Rockville Park,

    Site May Break For No Reason During Transition Period. You Have Been Warned!! Image via Wikipedia

    I have almost completed the process of setting up my new and improved Gazbook 2.0. I initially set the site up out of frustration with Facebook owning and hosting my content, and Gazbook 2.0 was remade with exactly the same thing in mind. At present I am using a slightly modified version of the PulsePress theme, although I hope to switch over to the absolutely gorgeous WP Timeline theme as it becomes ready for release.

    This is me basically acting in protest of how Facebook treats privacy and our information on the internet, and I aim to beat the corporation at it’s own game by entirely hosting my own content on my own server whilst using Facebook to advertise it. In this way Facebook will cease to see me in my private life, and will come to only see me as a publisher.. All my personal pics, events and the like will be hosted here; however you will still be able to log in with Facebook or Twitter to view them. You will also be able to comment on things here with these accounts.

    This will also consolidate my three primary blogs as of late; The Green Pirate, which is my green and pirate political blog; Watty Tries Design, which is my design and coding blog; and The Harsh Self-Critic, which is a blog more airing my personal feelings and suggestions that you can take or leave. You can view my entire feed on the Gazbook Homepage, or if you are only interested in a particular blog/topic you can click one of the tabs at the top of the page. Individual RSS feeds for each category are also available.

    Expect some rough edges for the time being, as this site is very much work in progress. When all is ready, this will act as my own personal hosting for my social network. Google, Facebook and the like are powerful tools- but in the fight for information and digital liberty hosting your blogs and information on independent web space can help tip the balance in the favour of the majority. I’m using my own webspace, but an alternative blogging provider that takes no personal information is noblogs; also check out diaspora for an alternative social network, where you are in control of your information.

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  • @garymarkwatts 4:25 pm on January 25, 2012
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    Tags: CCTV, Closed-circuit television, Government, , Police brutality, Police officer, , Russia, Vehicle registration plate, Yahoo   

    Security camera at London (Heathrow) Airport. ...
    In Modern Russia, You Watch Big Brother. In Soviet UK, Big Brother Watches You! Image via Wikipedia

    From a civil liberties point of view I should be very against the use of CCTV. The idea of a Big Brother society (as in the one depicted in the fantastic book 1984, not the god-awful TV show) is a pretty frightening one. In theory the government has so many ways to track our information, from NHS Numbers and National Insurance Numbers to camera’s that can log our Car Registration Plates or even our own faces, you’ve sometimes to to question if there is anything we can do that the Government doesn’t know about. And this is before you take into account the portfolio of information Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! have on each one of us to “target advertising”. Pretty frightening stuff.

    However I can’t deny there are many dark alleys in Lincoln where I really wish there was a camera. And that’s just in this leafy barely-a-city location! Maybe it just feeds the “I’m going to tell off you” side of my brain enough to keep me happy.

    I do believe there can be a place for CCTV. However I see it entirely different to how it is used at the moment.

    I don’t recall any time in the press that a crime in a public area had been prevented because a CCTV operator saw it happening and got a Police Officer out there. However, where it is much more likely to be helpful is for playing back the footage if a crime had been reported in the area, to provide evidence.

    I think a much better situation would be to have CCTV areas in public areas purely recording their footage, then being stored securely in a location independent of the police and any other authority. If a crime happens in an area, a backup of that particular tape is made which can then by used by the prosecution and defence in any trial. Also, cameras should only be placed in crime hotspots; if there is no evidence of crimes being recorded or reported in an area, they should be taken down.

    I’m not sure that would ease the minds of people worried about this kind of thing very much; it would till be a surveillance society. But I guess the advantage is, in theory, anyone would request to view the footage of a particular evening or time providing they had reasonable grounds to make the request. But then I guess which authority would make that decision, and who would define what reasonable grounds are, would open a larger can of worms than what we have at the moment. I believe all Police should also have embedded CCTV in their jackets; I feel this would help immensely with evidence for crime, on both the part of the public and for of Police brutality. However they should record in an encrypted format and immediately be sent to an independent storage location as soon as their shift finishes. And if it turns out their data is corrupted where a crime has attempted to be hidden, they should be disciplined regardless.

    I’m not sure of the answer myself; they’re just opinions. And as for CCTV on private property, they can do what they want, as the second you enter someone else’s property it is (within reason) their domain. But laws should be much tighter on the number of cameras they have per the surface area of the open space. And there should definitely be a separation between surveillance for security reasons and surveillance for customer research.

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  • @garymarkwatts 2:53 pm on January 24, 2012
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    Tags: Brain, Curing (food preservation), diet, food, , health, Human nutrition, Mars (chocolate bar), , Omega-3 fatty acid, Orthomolecular Medicine, Orthomolecular Psychiatry, Vitamin   

    Mars Believe Bar Limited Edition Football Worl...

    "beLIEve me" The Mars Bar Says, "I Am Good For You!" Image via Wikipedia

    I’d not even made the link till this afternoon. After a week of relatively healthy eating and exercise, we had a meal planned at a Chinese buffet. It was absolutely fantastic to see people I’d not seen for a while, and I’d certainly had a hearty meal. Well, I certainly wanted to get my money’s worth anyway.

    Then I got to this morning. My mood had generally been high all week (whether directly or indirectly related to my good food choices and increased exercise is up for debate). And I literally felt agony all over my body, as if a truck had hit me. And my mood was very, very low; I didn’t even want to get out and face the world today, compared to a week full of work and fun.

    I’m not about to claim that if we all live off vegetables, wear socks with sandals and take 50 Omega 3 tablets every day all the woes of the world will disappear and we will have bright, happy, smiley faces adorned on our heads. But there is an undeniable link between things like a large sugar or caffeine intake, and the “downer” that follows the rush of these more acceptable drugs. Also, if our body doesn’t have enough things like Vitamin B, Potassium as well as Water, the first things to shut down are the less urgent systems, like brain function, to make sure enough nutrients get to the heart and lungs.

    Interestingly, there was a branch of psychiatry called Orthomolecular Psychiatry, with the aim of attempting to cure mental illness by solely making changes to the diet, supplementing one’s intake with “Mega-Vitamins” and the like. Although the proponents started making unfounded claims of “Curing” people using just food when lacking the scientific evidence, it also seems very likely that the reason psychiatry didn’t take it too seriously was because there wasn’t enough money to be made from un-patented vitamins and food, compared to propriety drugs. (Interestingly, Orthomolecular Medicine seems either more beneficial, or better promoted)

    There is growing evidence, however, that taking Vitamin B and Omega 3 each day can lead to an improvement for those with bipolar; which makes sense as the both of these are important to brain function. A psychiatrist I was involved with in a research project put it that there is no harm in supplementing your diet with it in terms of side effects or toxicity, in comparison to the benefits.

    So take a minute to think about what you eat. Maybe choosing the banana rather than the Mars Bar will help put your body in the right frame for recovery.

    And if you fancy pitching up a tent in your sandals and Couscous, I’ll join you.

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  • @garymarkwatts 8:01 pm on January 22, 2012
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    Tags: Cascading Style Sheets, CSS, , Google Calendar, , HTML element, Span and div, Uniform Resource Locator, Wikipedia   

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    Some CSS, An Image I Thought I’d Add Even Though I Don’t (Yet) Understand It. Image via Wikipedia

    The following are the notes I collected in my notebook for the corresponding P2PU task. My original intention was to provide a few images of my work as well, but after it started spanning 5 or more pages in this small notebook I decided it’d be better if I didn’t!

    Anyway, here goes…

    <DIV>

    Used to group elements into blocks for styling purposes.

    <BLOCK QUOTE>

    Used for large quotes that may need indentation based on the style (although the style doesn’t HAVE to indent it, but it’d make sense to). Use CITE to provide a URL citation. e.g:

    <blockquote cite=”http://gwattsdesign.blogspotcom>Loads more text would usually go here, say a paragraph or a few lines, but because I am just giving an example there is no need for me to randomly write that much off the top of my head</blockquote>

    <P>

    Represents a paragraph. It is used to “block” text together, and this is the most used block-level element.

    <OL>

    Creates an ordered list. (Can be preceded by numbering or any other character or image defined in CSS). e.g:

    <ol>
    <li>line/item 1</li>
    <li>line/item2</li>
    </ol>

    <UL>

    Similar to <ol>, bu creates a list with no numerical ordering, but just bullet points (or whatever is defined in CSS) e.g:

    <ul>
    <li>line/item</li>
    <li>another line/item</li>
    </ul>

    <LI>

    Stands for List Item. Should only be used in a list with <ol> or <ul>

    <NAV>

    Navigation element; contains links used to navigate the website. e.g:

    <nav>
    <ul>
    <li>Home</li>
    <li>Away</li>
    <li>About</li>
    <li>Links</li>
    </ul>
    </nav>

    <MENU>

    Creates an unordered list. The difference is whereas <ul> solely displays items, <menu> acts as an interactive menu with items that are activated or interactive in some way (like in a window’s menubar). It can also contain nested <menu>’s, or menus within menus (which presumably would display on mouse-over). e.g.:

    <menu type=”toolbar”>
    <li>
    <menu label=”file”>
    <button type=”button” onclick=”new()”>New…</button>
    <button type=”button” onclick=”save()”>Save…</button>
    </menu>
    </li>
    <li>
    <menu label=”empty”>
    </menu>
    </li>
    </menu>

    <SPAN>

    Used for styling purposes. Similar to <div>, but is used in-line within a block, rather than acting as a block itself. (A little like when you put text in italics or bold in word processing, it doesn’t necessarily act on the whole block/paragraph but only on a word, a few words or a line…?) e.g.:

    <p>this <span>here</span> has just used the span tag</p>

    <TIME>

    Represents the time and/or date of an event, whether external (like a concert) or part of the website (like the creation of an article, or update of a page). It doesn’t magically do anything on its own, but it is machine readable (using, for example, something like Google Calendar or a Feed Reader) so an application can use the date to update a calendar or order news stories. Information can be internal to the tag, or surrounded by the tag, depending on whether you want to the user to see the extra information or not respectively as part of the page.  e.g.:

    <p>Let’s meet up at <time>19:00</time>
    <article>
    <p>This here article was made on <time pubdate>2011-01-02</time></p>
    </article>
    <p>The comedy show took place on <time datetime=”2001-05-15 17:00″>May 15 2001</time>
    <Q>
    Indicates the included text is a quote. e.g.
    <p>Gary said <q>Gee whiz, that is so funny!</q>.</p>

    <IMG>

    Represents an image. e.g.:

    <img src=”a_pic.png” height=”800″ width=”600″ alt=”What a pic!/>

    Based on the P2P University activity at  http://p2pu.org/en/groups/webmaking-101-html-hunting-in-the-world-around-you/content/some-tags-for-you-to-meet/

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  • @garymarkwatts 5:30 pm on January 22, 2012
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    Tags: David Cameron, Jeremy Clarkson, , Nick Clegg, Nick Griffin, Ricky Gervais, United States   

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    Nick Griffin Is Educated To Degree Level, So Of Course Never Uses Offensive Language. Image via Wikipedia

    My partner bought a few books for the nursery she works at, and was absolutely disgusted by the use of the word “Crazy” in the book. Apparently in the book the dog gave some kind of “Crazy look” to his owner for throwing a stick, and Chloe didn’t feel it was an appropriate use of the term for nursery age at all. So she took it back.

    It most most likely because of the mental health activism (and issues) I have been through that she is so sensitive to the use of the word. But is it really that bad? Everyone says it!

    Well, in my opinion, yes. By using the word Crazy, for example, it devalues the stress and agony a person who has ever been labelled as “crazy” or”mad” may have gone through. It also conjures up more disturbing images of Norwegian psychos murdering hundreds at youth camps.

    Worryingly as well there is the continued misuse of words like “schizo” to suggest someone or something that is talking to themselves, or that someone’s argument contradicts itself. A misuse because technically this is multiple personality disorder. I’m not trying to be pedantic, but rather that not only does the use of the word devalue and negatively portray the illness, but also shows a complete lack of understanding. Also tourrettes is regularly portrayed as a negative aspect of a person, when even people like politicians are using it to describe a person who won’t let the speaker finish.

    But will this ever change? Is this not just something that will stay a part of popular culture forever? I don’t think so. A relatively short time ago racism was a natural part of day to day life, as well as sexism. And we have made amazing strides in moving to a place where, although it is still there, discrimination against someone of a different race or sex is illegal and seen by the majority as wrong.

    Also there are more recent controversies such as with the toy based on a character called “spastic”. Although not intended at all offensively, and being a word not used in it’s home of the United States, it lead to the company removing from sale all of these toys because of the outcry from British society. And more recently there is the “Mong” scandal by Ricky Gervais, where despite him initially refusing to apologise because he thought it was no an acceptable term removed from it’s initial meaning (debatable considering he was pulling the stereotypical face as well), he eventually backtracked as he learnt it was still something incredibly offensive to a large group of people.

    But I’d like to be clear I don’t think legislation should be the main answer. People should be free to say whatever they want- but also anyone or any organisation is free to challenge that opinion, as in the example with Gervais. Unless a person is inciting violence towards a particular group, I don’t see a reason for a person to be arrested based on what they think. It also can lead to an increase of people who feel they are being forced to think a certain way by the “Politically Correct” police. I think seeing public figures apologise for their comments, like Ricky Gervais, Nick Clegg or even David Cameron is more powerful. And the best place to change views is to challenge them publicly, rather than allowing them no platform. Although certainly in institutions like the police and hospitals, the laws or rules they abide by must contain anti-discrimination clauses.

    Education is an extremely important part of the answer. But remember, even Nick Griffin has a degree in Law.

    Reposted from my mental health and personal blog at http://mygazbook.blogspot.com

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  • @garymarkwatts 9:33 pm on January 21, 2012
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    Just as I was about to start work on the next P2PU course, I go on it and get a message that the site is down for maintenance! I would have thought this would be one of the worst times to do (scheduled) maintenance, as not only is it prime-time for European web browsing but I would have thought peak time isn’t too far off in the US too…

    Oh well, I think it’s time for a Thomas The Tank Engine Youtube Poop…. (most likely NSFW)

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  • @garymarkwatts 8:40 pm on January 21, 2012
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    Internet Watch Foundation
    The IWF: The Giant Lifebuoy of the Planet. Image via Wikipedia

    I went to Morrisons a few years ago and saw a really good deal on Grand Theft Auto IV. Seeing as mindlessly slaughtering innocent civilians is of course a favourite past me of mine, I didn’t need to pass much thought before deciding I definitely, definitely wanted to get this game. So, along with my weekly shopping, I decided to add it to my basket. I was absolutely shocked to be asked for ID, especially because of the fact I was 21 and had certainly not been asked for ID for a computer game for at least 4 years. I had no ID on me, and felt extremely embarrassed to have it taken away from me. Not only that, she also noted it down on some kind of incident reporting sheet. It hadn’t even crossed my mind that I may be asked for ID. And if I was her, I’d probably have considered getting social services involved if she really did think I was 15, as I was obviously buying enough stuff to be self-sufficient for a week in adult life. As we all do.

    What I’m trying to say in this increasingly convoluted story is that censorship is everywhere. It attempts to stop kids (and adults it seems) buying films, games or music that contains language or material people may find offensive. It makes sure we don’t switch on the TV to BBC Breakfast and see a huge, floppy, veiny penis flapping from side (although the occasional sex scene in the background of a political programme is OK). It means we don’t see vulgar language adorned on the front covers of our newspapers and magazines each day (to be fair though the Daily Express is in a language pretty vulgar anyway), as well as stopping Mein Kampf being taught as a serious political theory to 4 year olds. Then there is the unwritten, social censorship as well; that stops me walking down the street naked, swearing, and grabbing hold of every person I see. So censoring our society, and ourselves and children, isn’t exactly something that has never happened before.

    So although SOPA and PIPA are now very unlikely to enter the law books of the United States government for the time being, there are far more sinister evils lying beneath the surface; both from the government and corporations.

    Take the Internet Watch Foundation. The IWF is put simply, a benevolent dictatorship with the power to block any website being accessed by the majority of UK Internet Service Providers, simply because they say so. In practice their remit is to block child abuse or pornography being accessed from the UK, which is far more reasonable. This is done by a blacklist which ISPs can voluntarily join. And as fighting child abuse is something akin to Brasseye in hype, in practice any ISP not joining would obviously be seen to be furthering the cause for paedophilia. Although sometimes they get it wrong.

    As a result of objection taken to the cover of a 1970s band on Wikipedia, the entire site was blocked from use in the UK. It wasn’t until protest by Wikimedia (the foundation that owns Wikipedia) that the ban was removed. Yet in the process a huge can of worms was opened.

    It was found there is no accountability or any kind of public oversight. Also, the blacklist was secret and never revealed to the public; even the 95% of ISPs that took part only received the list in an encrypted form they could only implement or not access. And when Wikimedia complained about the block, the complaint was defended by an IWF-sanctioned representative, which had lost. So we have an organisation with the power to block any website in he world, with no accountability or scrutiny by an outside or public body, and with close ties to the Home Office. And what’s best, we have no way of knowing that a website was blocked or why it was blocked. It’s bad enough to be “protected” from known unknowns, but so much more frightening to be “saved” from unknown unknowns. We have no knowledge something has even been censored.

    More articles, like Wired UK’s article, cover the organisation and this act of censorship much better than I could do. I’m not saying that protection and some kind of censorship from this kind of abuse is a bad thing at all; just like I wouldn’t suggest Hardcore Cougars 5 be allowed to be sold to anyone of young age. But such censorship should be done by an open and transparent body, with full public accountability and an open blacklist including reasons why a certain website has been blocked. And any blocked website should be able to argue their case in the courts.

    At the end of the day, anyone that desperate to visit this kind of vile material is probably using a proxy located in another country already. More money should be put into shutting down the sites and stopping the abuse happening in the fist place.

    This post was inspired by a blog post on Bright Green Scotland.

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  • @garymarkwatts 7:19 pm on January 21, 2012
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    Wallace and Gromit
    Middle class and not at all left wing. Ed Miliband with Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls

    Absolutely unbelievable and ridiculously provocative. That’s how I felt about Ed Miliband’s statement regarding the cuts and changes (or lack of) that Labour would take regarding the economy.

    But it’s not the policy itself that frustrates me most. Fair enough, they don’t want a Lord of the Rings-sized manifesto of exactly what would be cut and where right now as they don’t have access to exactly what the state of the economy and government spending for 2015. That’s absolutely fine- we can’t expect the party to have immediately built a Time Machine with the Neutrino research in Italy. Although it would be hugely irresponsible of them not to have at least begun consultations on how to create such a machine so they can give us accurate answers on events that haven’t happened yet.

    No, what is the most frustrating aspect of that is the fact there was no need to say the wouldn’t stop any of the cuts the government has proposed if they were in power. By saying they want to see what the situation is in the future before explaining what they were going to in the future, by implication this means they currently would not oppose anything done at the moment. As the moment isn’t the future. (Although that moment just then is now in the past).

    Oh, of course. This was simply to ignite friction between the party and the Trade Union’s so Ed doesn’t look quite as Red, and so the Labour Party are more appealing to those folk in the south who still think the Trade Unions are hoping to create a new Soviet in this country. If anything, the union leaders are mostly right up the party’s arse so they can get comfortable jobs high up in the Labour leadership in later life. And naturally, Labour wants to claim to be tough on the economy by following the failed economic policies of the Conservative Party by saying “My cuts are bigger than yours”. Which makes perfect sense. Tough on money; tough on the causes of money.

    What is also infuriating is this is yet another of those wishy-washy combinations of phrases which basically means we aren’t going to commit to anything. They campaign so hard to say they wouldn’t cut so hard or so fast, yet also say they would make no changes to current policy. It’s a bit like being asked whether they support a school closure, and saying they support keeping schools open but would not stop the closure. And as they’re not actually in power, they are preferring to take the lazy option as they have no real need to make suggestions or differences in policy technically until the next election.

    Anyway, I’m not going to be so big-headed as to say the Trade Unions should leave en-masse, join and fund the Green Party. The Campaign For A New Workers Party is already failing to make that argument very well. If anything I feel Trade Unions should be independent of political parties (not politics), and not because I’m some capitalist who believes we should break up the rights of the blatantly disgusting Trotskyist workforce. On the contrary, I believe being an independent force would actually make the unions stronger, as there would be less of the corrupting effect of the power of political parties, and no trying not to upset their affiliated party. But if that party wanted to supply membership details of their preferred party then I think that would be even better, and if anything increase the value of political party membership to that person making the concious decision to be a “full” member of their chosen party, rather than a union-affiliated member.

    Bloody hell, I’m going way off topic there! My point is it should be the decision of the membership of each union what they decide to do, and not any other party or their leadership.

    Anyway, I used to like Ed. Especially his grin like Wallace from Wallace and Gromit. But he’s increasingly looking like someone who is trying to not look like a communist, and not make a decision that can please everyone, rather than be a person who creates policy based on his principles. That no one in the opposition is providing a real alternative is disgusting too. But oh well.

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  • @garymarkwatts 11:53 am on January 21, 2012
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    Being on Ubuntu Linux restricts me a tiny bit in which text editor I can use; either because software isn’t compatible at all with it, or because it would be compatible but I need to compile it on my system, or run it under WINE. This is a good thing really, considering the fact I would like to learn the art of Webcraft using solely Open Source Software.

    By default on my system I have been playing around with Gedit, usually just to copy pieces of text or code there and back that I wanted to edit. However I also gave Blowfish Editor a go, and found it was much better at auto-completing my text (not that I needed it of course- my previous lesson had taught me extremely well ;) . It is nice to have the coding equivalent of a spell-check, though.

    Hello World says Hello World to editor containing Hello World…
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  • @garymarkwatts 11:30 am on January 21, 2012
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    Firefox 5years cake
    Image by ottodv via Flickr

    Call me an obsessive. Or a geek. One of them. Anyway, there is the smart-arse holier-than-thou side of me that sees running Ubuntu on my Mac, rather than any other operating system, a little bit of a political decision.

    No, I haven’t gone mad. Much.

    Anyway, by running an OS that is built by a community of enthusiasts, rather than giving into the capitalist dogma of Microsoft or Apple it does give me a little smirk to the face. Even though I am running it on a Mac.

    For the uninitiated, software like Firefox, Ubuntu, Linux, and even Android and Chrome (in the FLOSS flavour of Chromium) are built on the Open Source model. If you compare it to cakes, it’s a bit like Microsoft having an amazing cake called Internet Explorer (*cough*) but keeping the recipe entirely secret. In contrast, Mozilla (the creators of Firefox) bake an even better cake, but release the recipe free for anyone to use and bake their own cakes. Or learn from to bake other cakes. Or even improve the recipe and make a completely new cake (as long as they attributed Mozilla, anyway).

    This is basically the key difference between Copyright and Copyleft (Copyleft being broad name for less restrictive copyrights). Copyright can enable a creator to (justifiably if done right) make sure no one else can use or learn how she made it, and ensure they can profit from or license their work without fear of copycats ripping it off. Copyleft, meanwhile (and this is a huge generalisation) is made to be shared. The owner is still attributed along with a link to the original file, but other people can be free to copy, mix, study, re-use and sell their work. It’d be pointless for them to copy and sell it as they would have to provide a link to the free file; so it encourages collaboration and improvement of each other’s work.

    I believe all these kinds of licenses have an important part to play in the entire creative and technological ecosystem. However, at the moment the odds are clearly in favour of the large corporations with huge portfolios of licenses to songs, which they profit from and pay their (ex)artists peppercorn rates for.

    But right now I think I’ll just be happy with my Gnome-Shell. It looks miles better than OSX, anyway.

    For more info on some of the licenses check out Creative Commons. And yes, the cake story was inspired by the cake Microsoft made Mozilla for Firefox’s birthday.

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