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Greetings. Salaam. This is Mohsen Banan.

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I am a software and internet engineer.

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The title of this presentation is "About Blee".

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Blee stands for

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ByStar Libre-Halaal Emacs Environment.

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In this presentation I want to look

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at Emacs as a primary ingredient for the usage

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environment of an autonomy and morality

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directed digital ecosystem.

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My focus here is not just Emacs.

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This is about augmenting Emacs in the context of

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our own specific digital ecosystem.

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This presentation is part theoretical

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and part practical.

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I spend about half of my time on the

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theory and the bigger picture.

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The second half is hands on and Emacs centric.

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Emacs has long been recognized as the ultimate

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integration platform, enabling the creation of an

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unparalleled user environment.

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Tomohiro is right on the mark when he says:

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"The reason why Emacs platform is good

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is that it cooperates with OS,

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not because it is good by itself."

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But this recognition has often been in the

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context of a generic and abstract "OS"

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So, I am updating MATSUYAMA's observation as:

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"The reason why Emacs platform is good is that

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it facilitates creation of specific integrated

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usage environments like Blee, which cooperate

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with Debian and BISOS as part of

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the Libre-Halaal ByStar Digital Ecosystem."

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Emacs is an especially good choice as the universal core of

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user environments of a digital ecosystem, because it has an

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incredibly powerful display engine, and an incredibly

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powerful Elisp engine, and an incredibly powerful input

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methods engine, and an incredibly powerful common agents

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paradigm, and a very rich set of mature and convivial idioms

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and means for absorption and integration of external

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software services continuum capabilities.

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In our model, we first augment Emacs with a set

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of cohesive elisp capabilities and create Blee --

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ByStar Libre-Halaal Emacs Environment.

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We then further enhance Blee with an integrated

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framework on top of Debian called BISOS ---

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ByStar Internet Services Operating System.

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Blee is inherently intertwined

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and integrated with BISOS.

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This combination of the universal BISOS and Blee

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then forms a foundation for creation of an

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autonomy directed digital ecosystem that we call

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ByStar.

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Over the past two decades, I have been working on

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creating a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and

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non-proprietary digital ecosystem.

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We call it ByStar (By*).

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ByStar challenges the existing

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proprietary American digital ecosystem

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while operating concurrently alongside it.

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ByStar's primary offerings are tangible autonomy

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and genuine privacy on a very large scale.

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By* is about redecentralization of internet

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application services.

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The * in ByStar stands for Unix's globing symbol.

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Signifying that our scope is everything.

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Blee is a bigger and different vision for Emacs.

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Let's compare and contrast

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what I am proposing against

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common current practices of the Emacs culture.

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Please permit me to be slightly cynical.

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Much of what we have been seeing in the

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Emacs culture and in emacsConf

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can be characterized as

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stories of tunnel vision engineers

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scratching various itches

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by integrating various capabilities

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and providing DIY recipes.

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Emacs and Lisp are so powerful that

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people have come up

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with catch phrases like the

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"Curse of Lisp".

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The curse is that

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the power of Lisp breeds individualism.

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Because you can be so powerful alone,

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you work longer alone.

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Because it is easy to spin

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your own whatever library,

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many people do.

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I am suggesting that we should raise the bar.

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Let's cultivate Emacs in the context

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of our own digital ecosystem instead.

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Do more and do more outside of Emacs and

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recognize that a well integrated

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smaller Emacs leads to a better usage environment.

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Broadly speaking, digital ecosystems are viewed

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as consisting of 4 parts.

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Ideology, Software, Services and Content.

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Software, Services and Content are polyexistentials

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and can be analyzed from 3 different aspects:

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Functionality, Usage and Manner-of-Existence.

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By "manner-of-existence" of polyexistentials

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we mean everything relating to how the

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polyexistential exists within society.

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This includes for example,

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are polyexistentials internally transparent?

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Societal ideology determines manner-of-existence

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of Software, Services and Content.

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And in turn, manner-of-existence of Software,

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Services and Content impacts society.

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In the American model,

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loss of privacy and autonomy are direct

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consequences of the IPR regime.

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Based on this characterization, let's consider

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these three Digital Ecosystems:

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the Proprietary American Digital Ecosystem,

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FOSS and ByStar.

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The 5 big American proprietary tech companies,

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Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Amazon

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have created 5 competing enclaves as mostly

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separate and isolated digital ecosystem.

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In this slide, I am focusing on the first 3

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and each of their OSs,

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their usage environments

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and their clouds.

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Let's clearly recognize that the economic model

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of these proprietary digital ecosystems is

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"Surveillance Capitalism".

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Now, let's focus on

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the right side of this picture.

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On the non-proprietary side,

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based on the FOSS model,

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we have ended up with lots of components.

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We have Debian as a platform,

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we have Emacs as

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an editor-centered usage environment.

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But on the non-proprietary side we don't have

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anything that can

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reasonably be considered a digital ecosystem.

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I mean, the services aspect is missing.

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ByStar aspires to be

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a complete non-proprietary digital ecosystem.

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We were all born into the belief system of

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intellectual property rights,

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making it exceedingly difficult for us

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to even imagine that this

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foundational ownership framework

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could be fundamentally flawed.

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I am delighted to announce the availability of my

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recent book,

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"Nature of Polyexistentials".

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The full title of my book is:

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Nature of Polyexistentials

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Basis for Abolishment of the

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Western Intellectual Property Rights Regime

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And Introduction of

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the Libre-Halaal ByStar Digital Ecosystem.

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Knowledge, know-how, uses of know-how, ideas,

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formulas, software and information are inherently

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non-scarce.

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They are polyexistentials.

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Unlike monoexistentials which exist in singular,

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polyexistentials naturally exist in multiples.

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What is abundant in nature is being made

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artificially scarce through man-made ownership

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rules called copyright and patents.

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Let me provide a brief overview.

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This book is divided into five parts,

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each representing a layer of interest to you

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and to our societal policymakers.

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Part I, the philosophical layer

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delves into the concept of polyexistence.

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In this part, I introduce,

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for the very first time,

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the concepts and terminology of "polyexistentials".

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The topic of restriction of polyexistentals

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and the Western IPR is one and the same.

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Comprehending polyexistence invalidates

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the Western IPR model.

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We are living inside of an ownership fallacy.

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The Western IPR regime is a sin of our times.

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Part II is the pathology layer.

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Over the course of the past two centuries,

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numerous theories have been proposed to justify

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intellectual property.

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In this Part, I offer

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my perspective on the weaknesses inherent

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in each of these theories.

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Part III, the ethics layer,

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focuses on contours of cures.

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Having dismissed the Western intellectual

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property rights regime as an erroneous

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governance model for polyexistentials,

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I propose the

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Libre-Halaal model of governance of polyexistentials

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towards facilitating conviviality of tools.

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Part IV, the engineering layer, introduces the

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Libre-Halaal ByStar Digital Ecosystem.

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as an ethical alternative to the prevailing

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proprietary American digital ecosystem.

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Part V, the sociology layer,

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delves into formulation of

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Libre-Halaal oriented societal policies.

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It is evident that the abolition of intellectual

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property carries significant consequences.

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In this Part, I present my thoughts on this

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particular dimension for Eastern societies.

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For Western societies I confine myself to

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inside of IPR strategies.

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You can think of this book as being in two volumes.

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Our focus is Blee in Volume II.

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But as our blueprint needs to be interdisciplinary,

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there are some key concepts of Volume I that I'll

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briefly discuss here.

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Volume I deals with the general concept of

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polyexistence and invalidity of IPR.

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In Chapter 11, I introduce the very sensitive and potent

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vocabulary of Halaal and Libre-Halaal.

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Volume II is backed by software and internet

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services.

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The contents of this book

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belong to all of humanity

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and verbatim copying of it is unrestricted.

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If you want to read it, this book is yours.

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The "Nature of Polyexistentials" book is

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available both online and in print.

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This book is available as two editions.

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The US Edition and the International edition.

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The US Edition is written with

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a slightly milder Western unfriendly tone,

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while the International Edition

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includes additional original content in Farsi.

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I consider the International Edition to be the

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authoritative version.

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However, many readers in

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the US and Western countries

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may prefer the US Edition.

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I maintain separate Git repositories

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for each edition on GitHub.

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US Edition is at bxplpc/120033 and

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International Edition is at bxplpc/120074

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Cloning these repositories will give you access

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to the book in PDF format (suitable for both A4

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and US Letter printing) and in EPUB format.

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Alternatively, the content can be downloaded

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directly from your browser without needing to

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clone the repositories.

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To ensure broader online availability and

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stability, I have also published the book on

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Zenodo, complete with a

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DOI (Digital Object Identifier).

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You can download both the A4 and

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8.5 x 11 PDFs from there as well.

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The book is also available in print on Amazon and

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at most major bookstores in

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the US and Western regions.

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The ISBNs for both editions

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are included in this slide.

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Additionally, I have published

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this book in Iran through Jangal Publishers.

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I did not write this book for profit.

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My aim is to share my thoughts

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and encourage readers to

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engage with my views and ideas.

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Your feedback is welcome, and

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I am genuinely interested in

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hearing your perspectives.

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In Western markets, I have priced the print

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edition somewhat above production costs.

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If you find value in the

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book and the ByStar project,

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purchasing a copy will help support my work.

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Thanks in advance for your support.

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And here are the same links

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as a native Reveal slide.

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If instead of a video, you are viewing this

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presentation as a Reveal web page,

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you can just click on the pointers and URLs.

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The concept of polyexistentials has not appeared

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in prior discussions of validity of IPR.

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Once you start thinking in terms of monoexistence

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and polyexistence, the recognition of

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illegitimacy of Western IPR becomes very simple.

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I want to very quickly give you a taste of that.

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You can of course dig deeper in the book.

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Existence and possession are aspects of nature.

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Ownership are man-made rules.

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All material  objects exist in singular

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and are  monoexistentials.

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For monoexistentials, things  are simple.

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Monoexsitentials, say paper,

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exists  in singular.

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It naturally has a single  possessor.

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A single owner can be assigned to it

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which then makes that single possession lawful.

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Polyexistentials naturally exist in multiples.

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Much of our world is actually a mixture of

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monoexistentials and polyexistentials,

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which we call mixed-existentials.

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Possession of polyexistentials is naturally

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many-to-many. Without any conflict,

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polyexistentials can have many possessors.

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Polyexistentials are inherently Non-Rivalry.

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The requirement for ownership to be in harmony

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with the nature of possession and existence is

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violated by the Western IPR regime which assigns

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a single owner to what exists

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and is possessed in multiples.

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The end result is

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creation of Artificial Scarcity.

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Ramification of ownership mistakes

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are usually catastrophic.

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Consider the previous Western and American

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ownership mistake -- that of American Slavery --

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ownership of Africans by Americans and Europeans.

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See Chapter 7 -

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"Western Slavery and the Western IPR Regime"

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of the book for some parallels

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between these mistakes.

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This time with the Western IPR ownership mistake

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all of humanity is in danger.

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So, how are we to

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correct this catastrophic mistake?

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The strategies of Public Licenses and

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FOSS are not sufficient.

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hese are minor band-aids.

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We need to do a lot more.

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We need to understand what are we going to

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replace the mistaken Western IPR regime with.

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My answer is:

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"Libre-Halaal Governance of Polyexistentials".

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Much of my book revolves around that.

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We need to fully reject ownership of

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polyexistentals and replace it with attribution

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machinaries towards just rewards.

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We need to abolish the "Artificial Scarcity" of

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polyexistentials that the Western IPR regime

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has created and restore

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polyexistentals back to their natural state,

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that of "Non-Rivalrous Public Goods".

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By now many Westerners and many West-Toxicated

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are thinking: these are empty slogans that are

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going no where.

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And they are right.

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Copyright and Patents are

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fully entrenched in the West.

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But what about the rest of the world,

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what about the

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Chinese, the Iranians, Brazilians, Cubans

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and the rest.

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The Intellectual Property Rights

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regime is not universal.

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There is more to the World than the West.

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What if the WTO was to be recognized

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for what it is:

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the Western Trade Organization?

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Thus far, I have been discussing the nature of

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all polyexistentials -- any formula in any form.

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Next, I want to turn our attention to

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digitals in general and Software in particular.

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Software is a

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very special form of polyexistentials.

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Software is immediately useful.

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Software produces tools.

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Digitals as text, music, video, etc.

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are pure forms of polyexistentials

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that are controlled by software.

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As developers we know well that we can best

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produce good software through collaboration.

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In that collaborative model,

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the software itself performs a collaborative role.

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Software functions as a vessel for accumulation

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of our expert component contributions.

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The Western IPR model cultivates

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"Artificial Scarcities" and "competition",

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but software developers instinctly

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recognized the superiority of

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the natural collaborative model.

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Through Public Licenses, us software developers,

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have done a jujitsu on the IPR model and have

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created a collaborative framework inside of the

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copyright model. Based on that,

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Natural Public Goods

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have defeated Artificial Scarcity.

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Our success with software is proof that the

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entirety of the Western IPR regime is flawed.

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As a profession, us Software Engineers, need to

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create a relationship with society.

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We need to demand for societal rules

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which establish proper manner-of-existence

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of software and internet application services.

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In return, based on that,

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we should fulfill our guardianship role and make

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sure that autonomy and privacy are preserved and

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that practiced digital ecosystems are healthy.

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To get there we need to come up with the right

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label that represents the proper

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manner-of-existence of software.

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Thus far, two labels

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have appeared on the scene:

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Free Software and Open Source.

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I am saying that both are problematic.

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Free Software is ill directed.

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It is based on the model of granting users,

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freedoms that are irrelevant to most software users.

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Perhaps Copyleft or Ethical Software

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could have been better labels.

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Open Source is a moral compromise.

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It rejects the requirement for perpetuity of Copyleft.

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It facilitates convergence of corporate interest

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and surrogate activities of software developers.

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Over time, proprietary corporations too

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have come to recognize the

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superiority of the collaborative model.

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These proprietary corporations then derailed

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the original intent that all software

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should always remain open-source.

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With permissive public licenses which

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permit open-source becoming proprietary,

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the intent of Free Software has been

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marginalized and permissive open-source

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has become the norm.

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I expand on all of this in Chapter 12,

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"Digital Non-Proprietary Movements".

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Instead of Free Software and Open Source,

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the label that I introduce is: "Libre-Halaal".

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The Libre-Halaal label is distinct and

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different from FOSS labels.

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As an inside-of-IPR strategy,

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the Libre-Halaal label maps

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to a single public license ---

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the Affero GPL (AGPL).

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In the Libre-Halaal model,

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it is not up to developers to

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choose their own licenses.

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There is only one correct license that conveys the

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Libre-Halaal manner-of-existence of software.

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Also, unlike the FOSS labels that dance around

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the validity of the Western IPR regime,

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the Libre-Halaal label recognizes

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the invalidity of the Western IPR regime,

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calls for abolishment of Western IPR

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and suggests various outside-of-IPR strategies.

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See Part V, "Formulation of Societal Policies"

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for details.

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Furthermore, unlike FOSS which is

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just software oriented, the Libre-Halaal label goes

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beyond software and also

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applies to internet application services.

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In many ways, software is yesterday's news.

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Much of what we are experiencing

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today is in the form of

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internet application services.

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Internet application services provide

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remote access to execution of software.

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As such, much of FOSS has become proprietary

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internet application services

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as AGPL is rarely used.

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This is why the Libre-Halaal definitions and labels

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span software and Internet Application Services.

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Based on the interdisciplinary stage setting that

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the "Nature of Polyexistentials" book provided

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and the ByStar blueprint that we reviewed, we can

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now focus on Blee.

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Think of Blee as a layer on top of Emacs and

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think of BISOS as a layer on top of Debian.

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Let's bootstrap Raw-BISOS and Raw-Blee.

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Starting from scratch,

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get yourself a fresh copy of Debian 12.

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Then go to https://github.com/bxGenesis/start

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The README.org file of that github repo is same

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as Chapter 18,

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"Engineering Adoption of BISOS and ByStar"

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of the book.

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We will next run "raw-bisos.sh", but prior to

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that let's take a quick look.

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This bootstrap scripts will

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do a lot as root on your Fresh-Debian.

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It is best to first try it on a disposable VM.

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raw-bisos.sh adds

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the current debian user to sudoers.

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Then it installs pipx.

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And then with pipx

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it installs from PyPI bisos.provision.

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bisos.provision includes additional

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bash scripts that are then executed.

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Full installation involves setting up various

00:27:23.280 --> 00:27:26.959
accounts, groups, various directory hierarchies,

00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:31.239
lots of apt packages and lots of python packages

00:27:31.240 --> 00:27:35.239
from the bisos namespace.

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If you are ready, copy and paste this line and

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run it.

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You will be prompted for the root password.

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Then be patient.

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Full installation can take 15 minutes or so.

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The logs of this script are also captured in

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~/raw-bisos-${dateTag}-log.org

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What has been installed on your system are

00:28:02.320 --> 00:28:04.799
Raw-BISOS and Raw-Blee.

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The universality of Debian let's us build on

00:28:09.080 --> 00:28:13.599
BISOS and Blee both in the usage environment and

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the service environment.

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With Emacs 30 now available on Android and with

00:28:20.760 --> 00:28:25.559
Termux apt packages infrastructure in place, it

00:28:25.560 --> 00:28:27.039
will be very viable to

00:28:27.040 --> 00:28:30.379
port BISOS and Blee to Android.

00:28:30.380 --> 00:28:32.579
We have not done so yet.

00:28:32.580 --> 00:28:36.239
We are waiting for Emacs-30 to mature up.

00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:40.479
This is ByStar's "Mobile Second" strategy.

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Upon completion of the bootstrapping process, you

00:28:44.040 --> 00:28:47.959
end up with Raw-BISOS and Raw-Blee.

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You then need to relogin.

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At which point you notice that a new account

00:28:52.560 --> 00:28:56.279
called bystar has been created.

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"bystar" is the default usage account.

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Let's login into it.

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You will see a customized ByStar Gnome Desktop.

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You will also notice a "Blee Startup" icon.

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Let's use it and start Blee.

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Notice that the Emacs splash-screen has been

00:29:17.040 --> 00:29:20.919
replaced and also note that the splash-screen is

00:29:20.920 --> 00:29:23.299
in org-mode.

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All the original Emacs splash-screen

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info is kept under "About Emacs".

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Let me enlarge the screen.

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Now we can live inside of Blee.

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Notice that the top

00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:43.719
drop down Emacs menus have been augmented.

00:29:43.720 --> 00:29:48.659
Everything to the left of the "File" menu, is new.

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Notice the "Panels" menus.

00:29:51.320 --> 00:29:54.019
More on these later.

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Now let me get myself a shell.

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And run tail /etc/passwd.

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Notice that a number of

00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:06.839
new accounts have been created.

00:30:06.840 --> 00:30:14.879
Notably: bisos, bystar and bpos-delimiter.

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Let's next cd to /bisos.

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Everything related to bisos is in here.

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The rest is as Debian was.

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Let's take a look at /bisos/blee/env3.

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All the elisp code for Blee is in here.

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For now, Blee is layered on top of Doom.

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Raw-BISOS and Raw-Blee are starting points.

00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:47.959
They are meant to be customized.

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Let's next see how that is done.

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Raw-BISOS and Raw-Blee are foundational layers.

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They can be augmented in a variety of ways.

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The basic unit in the ByStar model is the

00:31:05.600 --> 00:31:07.959
"Autonomous Site".

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Think of the "Autonomous Site" as the

00:31:10.560 --> 00:31:13.439
totality of computing and communication

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capabilities in a modern family

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home plus the ability of that family to host

00:31:20.400 --> 00:31:23.559
their own internet application services.

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Let's walk through how Raw-BISOS and Raw-Blee are

00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:32.879
used to construct an Autonomous Site.

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BISOS augmentation model is based on

00:31:36.040 --> 00:31:40.299
"BISOS Capability Bundles" BCBs.

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Raw-BISOS can be augmented to

00:31:43.480 --> 00:31:46.659
become a Virtual Machines Hosting service.

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From there on we can use reproducible images to

00:31:50.600 --> 00:31:54.199
implement the infrastructure of sites.

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Two key site services are the

00:31:56.800 --> 00:32:01.219
"Site BPOs Gitlab Server"

00:32:01.220 --> 00:32:04.079
and "Site Registrars".

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With these in place we can facilitate

00:32:06.800 --> 00:32:10.879
self-hosting, which in the BISOS model is called

00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:15.439
Possession Assertable Libre Services (PALS).

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These topics and these concepts are described in

00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:25.219
Chapter 17, "Technology of ByStar: BISOS".

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The concepts of Service Portability, Service

00:32:28.840 --> 00:32:32.599
Possession Assertion, Autonomous Site and Inner,

00:32:32.600 --> 00:32:36.999
Outer and Exposed Rims of Autonomous Site are

00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:39.899
fundamental to ByStar.

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These are shown in this figure as

00:32:42.280 --> 00:32:43.519
"Network Abodes".

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Chapter 17 of the book provides more details.

00:32:49.490 --> 00:32:52.919
Blee introduces a number of new concepts that

00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:57.359
augment Emacs. Some of these are intertwined with

00:32:57.360 --> 00:33:01.039
BISOS and ByStar. But some are not.

00:33:01.040 --> 00:33:04.199
Here, I provide some examples of these new

00:33:04.200 --> 00:33:07.019
general concepts.

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We love Emacs and we love Unix because their

00:33:10.600 --> 00:33:14.599
design is convivial. By convivial, I am referring

00:33:14.600 --> 00:33:17.799
to Ivan Illich's concept and terminology of

00:33:17.800 --> 00:33:21.159
"Tools for Conviviality". It was first

00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:25.219
published in 1973. It's a must read.

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A goal of the design of the ByStar Digital

00:33:28.520 --> 00:33:32.639
Ecosystem is to enlarge aggregated conviviality.

00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:37.239
Here, let's start by reviewing the idioms and

00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:40.559
means that have made Emacs and Unix so very

00:33:40.560 --> 00:33:44.639
convivial and some of the key idioms that have

00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:48.079
augmented them over the years -- I am showing

00:33:48.080 --> 00:33:50.279
them as "Linux PlusPlus"

00:33:50.280 --> 00:33:52.919
and "Emacs PlusPlus".

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For the most part these

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two philosophies have not been combined.

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They were developed and have

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evolved mostly separately.

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Think of BISOS idioms as an extension of Linux

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PlusPlus idioms and think of Blee idioms as an

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extension of Emacs PlusPlus.

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Then intertwine BISOS and Blee.

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This aggregated convivial tools powers ByStar.

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Let me first explain what I mean by aggregated

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convivial tools, and then

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let me give some examples.

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Here is a key sentence from Illich's,

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"Tools for Conviviality" 1973 essay:

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Convivial tools are those which give each person

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who uses them the greatest opportunity to enrich

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the environment with the

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fruits of his or her vision.

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Proprietary manner-of-existence of software

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makes them industrial.

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Libre-Halaal manner-of-existence

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of software is a prerequisite for conviviality.

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The concept of

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"Org Dynamic Blocks" is very powerful.

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But, why should they be primarily used

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in Org-Mode.

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I say let's generalize them to

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"Emacs Dynamic Blocks".

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Have defaults for org-dblock-start-re in

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every relevant mode and use them everywhere.

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Blee does that.

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In programming languages, Dynamic

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Blocks can be used as visible macros.

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Let me give you an example of how I use them.

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For those of us who live inside of Emacs,

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enhancing programming with org-mode capabilities

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is awesome.

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Incredibly awesome!

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This can be done in two ways.

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(1) With Literate Programming and org-babel.

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and (2) with

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Traditional/Surrounded Programming and COMEEGA.

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COMEEGA stands for

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Collaborative Org-Mode Enhanced Emacs

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Generalized Authorship.

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It is just an acronym that I have come up with.

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Literate Programming and org-babel

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are well established.

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There is a related talk in EmacsConf-2024 titled:

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"Literate Programming for the 21st Century".

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COMEEGA is the inverse of org-babel.

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I prefer COMEEGA over org-babel,

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because I prefer

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Traditional/Surrounded Programming

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over Literate Programming.

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To each his own.

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This is not about that debate.

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This is about mixing your

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programming-mode with org-mode.

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Much of Blee and BISOS

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are implemented in COMEEGA.

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Almost all of our Elisp, Python, Bash

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and LaTeX work uses COMEEGA.

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Full and proper use of COMEEGA,

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requires Polymode. Let's call that Poly-COMEEGA.

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But Emacs's Polymode is work-in-progress,

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particularly now with the new tree-sitter.

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So, in the interim, my usage of

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COMEEGA has been in the form of Toggle-COMEEGA.

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Where I manually switch between the

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programming-mode and org-mode.

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For me this has

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proved to be a fine interim solution.

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In Emacs, the way that we have been

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dealing with documentation and

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information retrieval is archaic.

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Man-pages, TeXInfo, Helpful-Mode and

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convention based Doc-Strings are old and

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limited.

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In BISOS and Blee, we use Blee-Panels for all

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kinds of documentation.

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Let me show you some examples.

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Two fundamental autonomy oriented capabilities

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that ByStar offers to individuals are:

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Email and Content Generation and Publication.

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I'll give a quick overview of

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these two important capabilities.

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At the EmacsConf-2022, the title of my

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presentation was:

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"Revisiting the anatomy of Emacs mail user agents".

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In that presentation I

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gave a brief overview of BISOS-MARMEE

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(Multi-Account Resident Mail Exchange Environment)

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and Blee-Gnus.

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In ByStar, these are typically paired with

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byname.net autonomous email services.

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Content Production and Self-Publication is a

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foundational Blee and BISOS Capability Bundle.

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Both this presentation and

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the Nature of Polyexistentials book

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were developed with Blee LCNT.

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The original text is always in COMEEGA-LaTeX --

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LaTeX augmented by Org-Mode.

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This is the inverse

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direction of exporting LaTeX from Org-Mode.

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For typesetting,

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the LaTeX syntax is far more

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powerful than org-mode.

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And with COMEEGA-LaTeX,

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you can also benefit from

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all that org-mode offers.

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For presentation/screen-casting,

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the original text is then augmented in layers

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by images, audio voice-overs, screen captures,

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videos and captions.

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The Beamer LaTeX file is then processed

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by both LaTeX and HeVeA.

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LaTeX produced slides are then

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absorbed in html by HeVeA as images.

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HeVeA is a LaTeX to html translator.

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HeVeA output is destined to be dispensed by Reveal.js.

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This video is just a screen capture of the autoplay of

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reveal file.

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Viewing this presentation in its

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original Reveal form is a richer experience.

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All of this involves a whole lot of integration

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scripting. In Raw-BISOS these scripts are in

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file:/bisos/core/lcnt/bin

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To say that ByStar, BISOS and Blee are big and

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ambitious is an understatement.

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And clearly, a small team won't be able to

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deliver the outlandish blueprint that is outlined

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in the Nature of Polyexistentials book.

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We have been at this for over two decades and we

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feel that now in 2024,

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it makes sense to involve you.

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The pointers and instructions for installation

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and usage of BISOS and Blee that I have provided,

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produce systems that are minimally functional,

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but are not clean.

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At this time don't expect software and services

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stability and support.

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Throughout this presentation, I have been

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emphasizing Service Portability and Possession

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Assertable Libre Services (PALS).

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But, a complete digital ecosystem includes various other types of

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internet application services as well.

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In this slide PALS are the center and are then

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augmented by different other type of services.

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In the ByStar model, equivalent of Facebook style

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application services are called:

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"Inter-Autonomous Interactions".

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With individual oriented PALS in place, using

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OAuth of PALS, resources can be shared.

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Based on that we can then structure Inter-Autonomous

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Interactions while preserving much privacy.

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Any blueprint for a digital ecosystem must also

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consider the economic and business dimensions.

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Chapter 13, "Polyexistential Capitalism",

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delves into proper economic models for

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polyexsitentials.

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The concept of Attribution

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Based Economics (ABE) which has been discussed in

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this forum before is included.

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Chapter 21,

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"Private Sector Strategies:

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ByStar Open Business Plan"

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deals with the business dimension of ByStar.

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What if in addition to being ethics oriented,

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the entirety of this book could also be

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considered a sophisticated business plan?

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Are there any Venture Capitalists that use Emacs?

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Here is a set of relatively complete domains and

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links for digging deeper. These pointers are

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structured in 4 layers. Ideology, Software,

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Services and Guardianship.

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If Blee, BISOS, ByStar, Libre-Halaal and

00:43:53.680 --> 00:43:57.879
Polyexistentials have piqued your interest and if

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you wish to participate in making these ideas

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more widespread and want to further cultivate

00:44:04.200 --> 00:44:06.919
them, here are some suggestions.

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The examples of the Blee concepts that I chose

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were purposeful and targeted.

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I am hopeful that org-mode developers and emacs

00:44:18.600 --> 00:44:22.319
developers would recognize that it makes good

00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:25.599
sense to expand the scope of org dynamic blocks

00:44:25.600 --> 00:44:28.779
to the entirety of emacs.

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I am hopeful that the concept of polymode -- a

00:44:31.400 --> 00:44:35.279
single buffer with regions in different modes and

00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:39.759
org-mode in particular -- would receive a high

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priority in our tree-sitter transition. I am

00:44:44.560 --> 00:44:47.799
hopeful that Blee-COMEEGA can become a

00:44:47.800 --> 00:44:52.259
generalized form of polymode.

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I am hopeful that we can build on Blee-Panels and

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move towards having a richer base for a universal

00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:03.879
Emacs documentation framework.

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If participation in any of these is of interest

00:45:07.080 --> 00:45:10.659
to you, please feel welcome to contact me.

00:45:10.660 --> 00:45:13.519
Emacs Conferences have proven to be

00:45:13.520 --> 00:45:16.659
very useful and productive.

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I look forward to your thoughts, feedback and questions.

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I want to thank all the EmacsConf Organizers for

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their great work.

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And Sacha, Leo and Amin in particular.