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Performance and reputation
The building of software is all publicised. Therefore in an Open Source community one works for an…
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Hierarchies under constant negotiation
Sunil Abraham is deeply involved with the open source community. He defines open source as follows:…
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No universal rules for handshakes
When tuning one’s presence when one is about to become each other’s witness, this tuning is…
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Transactions online prove existence
Sunil Abraham argues that an individual exists online because of transactions online, not because…
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Decent systems under the rule of law
Human beings negotiate between inner values and external values. Like the law, also system…
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Values in the 'mighty' frame of law
Law and the court have a great influence in society. The ‘mighty frame’ of law is legitimized by…
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Performance as inner drive
Performance is always based on and limited to a specific application of systems as it is for humans.
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Meaning and syntax of relations
Humans have relations on many levels and the same goes for computers. But if systems want to reason…
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Centre is where sense emerges
When asked about the story of the potter who gets centred by the wheel, who creates a centred pot
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Words and deeds
Using language in a computer environment is one of the ways to communicate with the computer itself.
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Witnessing systems is fun
Human beings can only witness the system by the grace of the designers: the error-logs and pop-up…
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Mapping values
Values within the design of distributed systems are a push and pull between transparency
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Basic trust is needed
In distributed environments the issue of trust is significant. Therefore a distinction is made…
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Locality of data
The place of a computer could be defined by the locality of its inputs (keyboard, mouse and monitor…
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Synchronizing rhythms
When discussing the example of the tabla player, who could change any delay into a different beat
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Connecting rhythms
There are time-based protocols to regulate interactions between computers. These protocols can be…