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Vesa-Matti Kari

NO SOFTWARE PATENTS. "Richard [Stallman] was the first to take up what is now a very important battle. He declared ridiculous the notion that a line of code he had written could be claimed as belonging to someone else who had 'thought of it first.'. He was an early, lone voice warning of how the concept of software intellectual property could undermine, rather than support, the programmer. The current crisis over software patents is something Richard foresaw long ago" Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium

Thanks for visiting my dull homepage. If you want to learn something about me, then read on.
If you don't want to learn anything about me, then just skip this site,
but remember that in fact you already have learnt something during your stay.
Namely, you know that this homepage made by me is too dull for you.

I like comics by Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson, Paul Murry, Romano Scarpa, Giuseppe Perego, Giovan Battista Carpi, Luciano Gatto, Giorgio Cavazzano, Massimo De Vita, Pier Lorenzo De Vita, Marco Rota.

To prevent injustice and help our fellow citizens, we should support free software as much as possible.

The security conscious folks probably want to get my PGP public key before trying to contact me via e-mail.

DID YOU KNOW THIS ABOUT FINLAND?
Figuratively speaking, Finnish people are made of steel. They bravely ignore all nonsensical laws that some foolish politicians try to force upon us.
For example, the Finns enjoy having a good laugh at the foolish politicians' pathetic attempts to restrict our free speech.
We are free and will always continue to be so. By the way, have you noticed that too many politicians are "funny in the wrong way"?

Here is Otila, a small IRC quiz bot written in Python. NOTE: alpha testing!!!

Here is a tiny patch for Sendmail 8.13.8 that is probably not very useful.

A very experimental PAM-module for local authentication with RSA keypairs can be found from here. It should work at least on Linux and Solaris.

IF you get a kick out of commodore 64 retro gaming THEN GOTO lemon64

FOR THE FINNS ONLY: If you are still a member of the dreaded Finnish Lutheran Church, do yourself a favour and go here.

Free your mind and the rest will follow.

Better life through cryptography