> niin tämä oli tietysti pilaa, osana ars electronicaa - ehkä viimeinen
> mailihuijaus jonka joku vielä uskoi arvelee saksalainen Heise
> http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/sa/3424/1.html (saksaksi)
>
> hoaxit on joskus kai ollut eläväkin taidemuoto joka näköjään yhä toimii
> ainakin sen verran että tekee joidenkin nettauspäivistä jännittävämpiä :)
> (ja herättää tietty keskustelua tärkeistä vakavista asioista jnejne)
>
> On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, . wrote:
>
> > This is r-e-a-l-l-y weird stuff I think but well, not too surprising I
> > guess. I know this Marleen personally and she send this to inform us about
> > what actually is happening now that Linux got awarded in Ars Electronica
> > and how Microsoft, Siemens etc. where involved .. the message includes
> > rumours about them releasing a Linux distribution etc.
> >
> > This is a public press statement so I guess there'll be quite a hassle
> > about this soon, at least discussion on http://www.nettime.org/ where this
> > was just posted too.
> >
> > + an + ~ ~ : (t . !
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 23:43:44 +0200
> > From: [email protected]
> > To: @an.org
> > Subject: Linux wins Prix Ars due to MICROSOFT INTERVENTION
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Below you will find a press statement from members of the
> > .net jury of this years Prix Ars Electronica. You will read
> > about the real paths that lead us, the jury, to award this
> > years golden nica to the operating system linux.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Marleen Stikker
> >
> > ______________________________________
> >
> >
> > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> > Linz, Sep 6, 1999
> >
> >
> > Media Contacts:
> > Marleen Stikker
> > Centrum de Waag
> > Amsterdam/ The Netherlands
> > Tel: (+31)20-5579898
> > Fax: (+31)20-5579880
> > Email: [email protected]
> > Website: http://www.waag.org
> >
> > Dr. Christine Schoepf
> > ORF Prix Ars Electronica 99
> > Linz/ Austria
> > Tel. (+43)732-6900-24218
> > Tel. (+43)732-6900-24270
> > Email: [email protected]
> > Website: http://prixars.orf.at
> >
> >
> >
> > ARS ELECTRONICA PLAYGROUND FOR CORPORATE STRATEGIES
> >
> > We, the "net." jury, have just learned that next years
> > ars electronica festival will be titled "OPEN SOURCE".
> > This has been inofficially agreed on by the direction of
> > the ARS ELECTRONICA and the sponsors Siemens, Microsoft,
> > Oracle and HP, e.a. From reliable sources we also learned
> > that the decision was made weeks before the ".net"-jury
> > decision on "linux".
> >
> >
> > WHY WE ARE GOING PUBLIC
> >
> > Because we have also just learned that the above-mentioned
> > IT-companies are involved in a linux distribution joint
> > venture and a strategic alliance. Their joint venture startup
> > will most probably become one of the leading linux
> > distributors, directly attacking Red Hat and SUSE.
> >
> > This is the classic oligopolistic strategy.
> > They cannot buy linux, nevertheless, they will take control
> > over the distibution of the competitor.
> >
> > We were suspicious before, but now we are strongly convinced
> > that there was indirect but heavy influence by corporate and
> > ars electronica executives to reach the "linux" decision...
> >
> >
> > THE JURY WEEK-END
> >
> > For the jury welcome dinner, a few corporate people had been
> > invited, too. Everybody was discussing about where Ars
> > Electronica could or should be going. For the corporate people
> > the main hype was of course the .net category, e-commerce and
> > the commercial impact of the "mass communications" medium
> > internet... and they were all constantly talking about the
> > creative potential of linux and its open source strategy.
> >
> > Then, at the actual jury meeting, deciding on a winner appeared
> > to be quite a hard decision (not to say compromise). Whilst the
> > majority of the jury had a clear favourite in the russian info-
> > intelligence startup "etxtreme.ru", another juror started
> > talking about "that we need to decide on something that is really
> > taking two steps ahead, not some arty-farty stuff". So "linux" just
> > came up as a smart solution. we took this path, we formulated our
> > statement and came up with the source code as art work, with our
> > position against "beautiful" web-sites. it was a strong moment.
> > And we saw linux as the perfect continuum to the corporate artwork
> > of etoy.com, the Ars Electronica winners of 1996.
> >
> >
> > TERRORVISION AND THE LOGICAL CONCLUSION
> >
> > But the information about the secret linux distribution joint
> > venture between Microsoft and Siemens in combination with next
> > years topic made us alert.
> >
> > Our conclusion: the industry has strongly lobbied and put
> > pressure on at least one jury member to award "linux". We now
> > have to interpret this in persepective of next years ars topic.
> > They pushed the topic. The idea is to use the art and science
> > community to soft launch their linux activities and control
> > open source strategies. They do understand that open source
> > has evolved into a stronger development strategy and they have
> > to jump that train early enough, in order to avoid another
> > "internet" desaster.
> >
> > So as artists writers and scientists we are used as lab-rats
> > and cheap alternative researchers. This is NOT what artists
> > need and it is certainly not what Ars Electronica should be
> > aiming at.
> >
> >
> > NEXT STEPS
> >
> > We believe that investigative journalism is needed to further
> > describe and interpret this incident..
> > We definitely want to engage in bringing transparency into the
> > "who`s, when`s, where`s, and for how much money" of this years
> > decision making process of Prix Ars Electronica.
> >
> > For the press, we are available for background information and
> > extended infos on the topic via email or at our on-the-fly press
> > conference:
> >
> > sept 8, 1999, 1630h
> > brucknerhaus in linz
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Derrick de Kerckhove
> > Lisa Goldman
> > Joichi Ito
> > Marleen Stikker
> >
> >
> > Contact:
> > Marleen Stikker
> > Centrum de Waag
> > Amsterdam/ The Netherlands
> > Tel: (+31)20-5579898
> > Fax: (+31)20-5579880
> > Email: [email protected]
> > Website: http://www.waag.org
> >
>
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