This site is named after one of the major characters in "The Paladin" by
CJ Cherryh

Shoka.net is a personal site, offering links to sites involved with "Open Software",
"Network Security" and "Information Ownership" issues.

This site respects Copyright and Patent protection, while despising the abuse of the public good that these measures have degenerated into.

This site is also the home of a small project to make freely available on the net the files necessary to control a multi head embroidery machine, to stitch embroidered versions of the mascots of various Open Source projects.