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       >> Forum: de.comp.os.unix.discussion
          >> Thread: "Linux wins Ars Electronic prize because of Microsoft intervention"
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    Subject: "Linux wins Ars Electronic prize because of Microsoft intervention"
    Date: 1999/09/06
    Author: Florian Cramer <cantsin@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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          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: marleen@dds.nl
    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: christine.schoepf@orf.at
    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: marleen@dds.nl
    Website: http://www.waag.org

    -- 
    Florian Cramer <paragram@gmx.net>, PGP public key ID 6440BA05
    combinatory poetry site: <http://permutations.home.ml.org>

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