User:Kaol

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I'm a student of mathematics in the University of Turku. My interests include free software and anarchism.

English is a foreign language to me and the edits I make may contain odd grammatical errors. I might get it more right if I spent double the time on perfecting my commas, but I often let laziness win over perfectionism. Hopefully my contributions still have content in them. Feel free to fix my mistakes. I might miss (in)definite articles, Finnish doesn't have those and I tend to forget them.

Too bad English is so common. As far as natural languages go, it's one of the hardest. Writing it is still mostly ok, but what is written has often little connection with how it is spoken (it's nearly not as bad as French, but still). I consider English's lingua franca status somewhat of a historical mistake.

I'd prefer some clean, nice artificial language. Esperanto isn't really one. A polysynthetic language would be nice, they're the constraint programming of languages. Anything that cuts the size of the vocabulary is good.

Maybe I should add programming languages and linguistics to my interests too.

I still find making a Finnish wikipedia a waste of effort.

I find the GFDL status of Wikipedia unfortunate. I agree with what Debian has to say about it. GPL is the only licence that makes sense for anything at all. It prevents nothing I would do with software (or anything else), so ignoring the licences (which I do anyway) is actually legal for a change. But the hoarders out there, who are still too stupid to follow something like a licence, are forced to play nice too, with no extra effort.

Copyright is such a joke. If you don't want people to do anything they want with something you've made, lock it up. Never let anybody else see it. The only way to control that cat once it is out of the bag is by a police state.

What does "you wrote it yourself" even mean in guaranteeing that an idea is not copyrighted by something else? We get most of our ideas from somewhere else, anyway. So an idea is impure if it is expressed too similarly to one source, so you have to alter its expression up to a certain threshold, after what it magically becomes pure again and good for use? I call that idiocy. Nothing more, nothing less.