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Hmm, that article suggests that our ancestors started in Asia and then continued evolving in Africa. So yes, we're all African, and also all Asian, and presumably all Pangean at the end of the day.

Actually it's a shame he cancelled because (a) any publicity can be good and (b) this now sets up the stage for hysterical attacks on the tech scene in general and (c) this is worse, not better, for 'diverse' speakers. What does it mean now to be a non-white or female speaker at a conference? That you're there because the organizers wanted some token diversity? Insurance?

"Hi, I'm the diversity insurance speaker. Name's Token. Here's my card."

To map "diversity" to skin color is superficial and reflects the bias of the viewer more than anything. As a white male programmer I've more in common with other male programmers, no matter what their color, than with male football players, male drug dealers, male prostitutes, male athletes. Skin color has literally nothing to do with it. It's cosmetics.

Gender arguably is more relevant but seriously... there is no bias against women participating in free software projects. It's literally a sport open to anyone, with as few barriers as you can imagine. Age, gender, skin color, origin, perhaps the only filter that reduces diversity is the need for reasonably fluent English.

And still, the number of women in our communities is extremely low. That means the detailed technical world of software appeals to fewer women than it does to men. That's not a problem, it's just a fact, and easily observable. It would be offensive to choose women speakers just for their gender. Tokenism is a nasty form of discrimination. At the same time it would be offensive to refuse people on any basis except their work. I don't think that was the accusation here.

Diversity simply means, different points of view, perspectives, and opinions within the group. It does not mean creating a Star Trek experience.

Then again speaking as a white male it's quite likely that my perception of this is totally biased.

Perhaps his notes are of the form, "this passage works effectively on visiting missionaries if read in an thick Irish accent", or "never use this argument with a Jesuit unless you are prepared to (see pp 575.576)".

A search of the USPTO database finds four other Red Hat patents around AMQP:

• Using AMQP for Replication
• Servicing Database Operations using a Messaging Server
• Method and an apparatus to deliver messages between applications
• Message Bus Based Replication

And AMQP patents by patent lawyers:

• System and Methods for Message-based Installation Management using Message Bus

Sigh. I'm not sure whether you're misguided or a troll. Let's assume you're sincere. Who wrote the EUPL and with what motives? It's a rhetorical question, don't answer. Just understand that the biggest long term threat to any free software community is regulatory capture. Now compare the EU against the FSF and ask, which is more resistant to capture over the next decades? That by itself should be a clear reason to not use the EUPL or any other license produced by bodies that aren't extraordinarily independent and proven to be so.

Second, you're probably going to explain how Europe is the center of the world, etc. It's not. It's not even a continent.

Third, the GPL is a standard. That means lawyers around the world know it, and it interoperates. It's not about a better or worse license but about standards. All the EUPL can do is fragment the community (which starts to answer my first question, who wrote it and why. You are really too trusting.)

Forth, translations? http://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.html lists Armenian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, Galician, German, Italian, Serbian, Slovak. I'm sure it will grow to much much more than 22. And note "Chinese". This actually covers 20% of the world's population, if that is the criteria you want to argue with.

Lastly, and really, do I have to say this, your "anglocentrism" criticism is terrible, trollish, pointless. Are you just looking to annoy people? Or are you just entirely ignorant? I was president of the FFII at the time we contributed parts of the GPLv3 patent policy, and I can tell you formally, the GPLv3 was a global project, with input from hundreds of people around the world.

Whether you "approve" or not is irrelevant. But please, get your facts right before you act offended when people insult you.

Thanks for the information... very useful. I wish I had mod points. Yes, my point is about fraudulent use of infected fresh water fish in cheaper sushi restaurants run by non-Japanese kitchens (which in my experience is common), combined with perhaps lower tolerance of western gene pools to the parasite's effects. Sorry if my description of its intentions were fuzzy; I'm basing it off articles like http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2009/10/how-a-liver-fluke-causes-cancer/. If there's an arms race, clearly the human resistance is happening locally, not globally. You see my point.

I'm fine myself, survived a wicked Whipple resection and chemotherapy. I'm a little concerned though that the risk to others isn't wider known; given how simple it should be to detect liver fluke in imported fish samples, and cure infections when found, balanced against the cost of one case of CCA.

Well, there is in fact a real threat here. A common parasite in fresh water fish in tropical countries is the liver fluke, a worm that lives part of its cycle in the human gut and is responsible, in cases, for cholangiocarcinoma, cancer of the bile duct. The worm attaches near the bile duct and produces chemicals that create cancer so it can eat the by-products. Nice little beast. It's a slow developing cancer that kills suddenly because it has no symptoms until it reaches a late stage. It's one of the commoner reasons for death among 50-year old males in countries where it's endemic.

One assumes there's more resistance in populations that have been exposed to this parasite for thousands of years. Women suffer much less from bile duct cancer than men, so there's variation in individual vulnerability. But as Chinese fish is exported, and ends up in places like cheap sushi bars in Birmingham, the parasite ends up in thousands, perhaps millions of people who have little resistance.

Attack of the Killer Sushi.

I should know, I got bile duct cancer a year or two ago and since there were no antecedents in my family, this seemed the most likely cause.

If we started feeding fish on pig feces, it's a slippery slope (sorry!) to feeding them human feces.

Good news is a yearly de-worming should be sufficient to prevent bile-duct cancer, if anyone cared about this.

If you're better at smaller focused tasks, learn Android development, and team up with someone with good graphics skills.

If you're better at the big picture, learn 0MQ and sell yourself as an architect.

Note that the Data Retention Directive was adopted in 2005 mostly due to pressure from the UK Labour government. Initially it was claimed to be anti-terrorist; those claims were then amended to anti-crime and anti-paedophile.

It's most probably aimed at quelling the civil disturbances that some authorities see as an inevitable part of our chaotic post-carbon future.

It's been said already:
"English is the Linux of human languages. Open source, fully remixable, endlessly rich. (June 2011, by Pieter Hintjens)"

You miss the point here, which is that international treaties such as the Berne Convention and TRIPS are written and promoted into law by (US and European) copyright lobbies. So it's nice and circular. US law says A, so $$$ creates international law that says B, and now US law regretfully changes to say B. This tactic is also used by governments when they want to pass really unpopular legislation, e.g. the data retention directive in Europe, which was kicked out of the UK Parliament, pushed into EU law by the UK government, and then brought back to the UK without dissent.

IBM filing trivial patents for defensive reasons? Please, that's a joke. Filing a patent does not defend against attack from a troll. You cannot file all possible patents any more than you can claim all possible combinations of letters. A billion patents is still 0% of infinity.

IBM file trivial patents because they make $$$ from patent licenses. The director of the USPTO, Dave Kappos, was chief patent lawyer at IBM. It is a pure case of regulatory capture. IBM *own* the US patent system, file 50% of all software patents, and use this as a mainstay of their business plan.