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is all I have to say today.

Wir (Bernd und ich) hielten gestern im Rahmen einer Veranstaltung der LUG Backnang und des CCWN einen Vortrag mit Kritik an Vista, Mac OS und DRM allgemein. Ich erlebe gerade die Arbeit für freie Software allgemein sehr positiv, so meinte etwa ein Zuschauer, im Oktober hatte er Probleme mit seiner XP-Aktivierung, die der Meinung war, er hätte eine illegale Version und seit Dezember nutzt er Linux.

Wie üblich die Vortragsmaterialien (diesmal exklusiv als ODP, ich geh inzwischen davon aus, dass das jeder kann), Teil 1 und 3 waren von mir, Teil 2 von Bernd:

Slides Teil 1 (DRM), Slides Teil 2 (Windows Vista), Slides Teil 3 (Mac OS)
Gezeigtes Filmmaterial: The Corruptibles, A movie about Trusted Computing

My favorite talk yesterday was done by Werner Pieper, which was mainly a collection of anecdotes about him being a former drug-dealer. He presented some interesting thoughts and experiences about trust in the illegal world. He also had some interesting stories about piracy-prints.

Today, I watched a talk about TPM and MacOS, which led to a very angry reply at the end by Rüdiger Weiss (who did a lot of work and interesting talks about trusted computing in the past years), sadly there wasn't any time left. Also about DRM, later this day there was a sadly very rarely visited talk by Seth Schoen from the EFF about television standards and the DRM-discussion in the DVB-group (DVB is the european digital video standard). Very detailed information, also many things I didn't know, for example that the industry plans to implement devices that only work in certain areas (by GPS-modules) or in a specific household. Most people seemed to have attended the talk by their »popstar« (Lawrence Lessig), who was placed in the same time slot.

Beside that, I sat some time at the CAcert-booth, helping them assuring visitors. Had some nice talks there and had the feeling that CAcert is really getting forward these days. For example I didn't know till now that Indymedia is using CAcert for their open posting.

Beside that, some people asked me about my desktop-background, it's from an anti-drm/itunes-campagne by the free software foundation and you can find it here.