Comments on: Memories of Akademy 2009: Best talk ever

By: ervin

ervin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:42:08 +0000

@Wally
To let people do their homeworks.

By: Wally

Wally — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:30:54 +0000

So what’s the point of posting this without a link?

By: MacSlow

MacSlow — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:29:32 +0000

That was indeed the best talk of the whole conference. Very different (non-technical) and yet informative and entertaining. A real joy to listen to.

By: ervin

ervin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:11:08 +0000

@pinheiro
Well that’s the point, he was comparing with “liberal arts” (from Wordnet: “studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)”). Which obviously is a much older concept than the “liberalism” (as an economic concept) and has nothing to do with it.

And IMO if one misses this crucial difference, that completely ruins the understanding of the talk.

By: pinheiro

pinheiro — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:30:34 +0000

@ervin yes im prety sure i need to see it again, becouse he didn’t realy finished his talk, and the enfoucus on the gredit parts was to me not interesting.
In Glyn Moody’s keynote the focus was about us scratching our personal itches on the software and then needing to share it and the “needing” part resonates alot more to me than the “credit” part. Specialy has I think he did not finished his talk.

Any way liberalism, and Adam Smith were good and bad but lead us to for example the current crissis. Liberal professions are i think are caled LIberal couse they are self regulated normaly by some bar of peers. Dont think that conveys the essence of what freedom is in any way. To bad english dosent have the word “liberte, liberdade, etc”, its realy the best of words for it.

By: ervin

ervin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:34:19 +0000

@Mohamed-Ikbel and @Strash
Everything got recorded, now it’s up to the organization team to put that online. Not sure when it’ll happen though.

@Bogdan and @Diederik
Well, up to you to find out (not that difficult). I’m actually applying to him the exact same “giving credit without giving credit” approach that he used in his talk. Found it definitely interesting and well aligned with greeks approach to knowledge sharing.

@pinheiro
I’m kind of surprised that you didn’t like it. Could be some misunderstanding indeed. By seeing your other comment about Glyn Moody’s keynote I think that you rejected the “liberal software” naming, but it had to be compared to “liberal arts” (or “humanities”). In this context I think it’s really a good naming and much less ambiguous in english than the “free software” naming often mistaken for “gratis software”.

By: Diederik van der Boor

Diederik van der Boor — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:15:31 +0000

lol, you sure know how to give this man credit

By: pinheiro

pinheiro — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:41:39 +0000

i didn’t liked it one bit, thought it missed the point all together, at least I don’t do what I do because of what he said, maybe I misunderstood most of it…

By: Bogdan Bivolaru

Bogdan Bivolaru — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:51:33 +0000

So what’s the name of this guy? is he Robert Lefkowitz?

By: Strash

Strash — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:26:08 +0000

Is there any vidéo or sound record of this presentation ?