Re: [Trisquel-users] How to remove JPEG, MPEG, GIF, DOC and other unwanted patented software?
Formats aren't software, being able to read patented formats does not take away your freedom, although some patented formats have been reverse-engineered so that they could be read with free software. Many patents have expired such as for GIF, and in many places outside the US of A these silly software patents are mostly irrelevant. Why would you want to remove support in Libreoffice for DOC files? These is the most commonly-used document format! It is all free software so unless you want pain and awkwardness by not being able to read many other people's documents, that is a silly idea! Digital restrictions are maybe what you are confusing here, but including support for a patented format is not the same thing as restricting you. If anything it is great that LibreOffice can read almost all formats because then it makes it easy for people to switch! Also libdrm is not a "digital restrictions" library! It is a crucial component for graphics: direct rendering manager! That would be really silly to remove this crucial library! Alos gNewSense is hopelessly outdated which is very worrying from a security stand-point. Don't leave Trisquel! I hope this helps!
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to remove JPEG, MPEG, GIF, DOC and other unwanted patented software?
Please, tell me about .midi (timidity package). P. S. Patent? QM-coder, IBM, JPEG.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to remove JPEG, MPEG, GIF, DOC and other unwanted patented software?
I think it's not what this guy thinks it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to remove JPEG, MPEG, GIF, DOC and other unwanted patented software?
P. S. Trisquel site BG is JPEG. Please, fix it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to remove JPEG, MPEG, GIF, DOC and other unwanted patented software?
Just a general rule: don't react to things with extremism, especially things you don't know about. I see this mistake from new people all too often. Take a deep breath and actually learn why Trisquel doesn't filter out all of these things; don't assume that it's because Trisquel is "malware". I'll just tackle all of your concerns: - JPEG is a non-patented, non-secret format. It poses no problems at all for anybody. It's currently the best format for lossy image compression. - I think all of the MPEG formats are patent-encumbered. So if you're in a position where you're likely to be attacked by patent trolls, not having support for them may be a good idea. In that case, just remove the "libgstreamer-plugins-bad0.10-0" package. However, you are probably not in such a position. - All of the patents on LZW (the part of GIF that was patent-encumbered) expired years ago. You don't need to worry about expired patents. The only reason not to use GIF now is that PNG is simply a better format. - .doc is not patent-encumbered, just secret. It's not very good to give people .doc files, but you aren't going to benefit at all from refusing to run libre software that is able to read this format due to reverse-engineering. - I think that .docx is patent-encumbered, but for the moment, Microsoft has promised not to sue anyone for patent infringement. Again, you ought to not give people these files, but you gain nothing from not being able to read them. - .ico, .wav, and .bmp are all non-patented and non-secret. They don't have "licenses". No license is needed if the format isn't encumbered by patents. - As root_vegetable said, "DRM" in the context of Linux means "Direct Rendering Manager". You shouldn't just assume you know what something is based on its name like that. Without the DRM, I don't think you would be able to use a graphical display at all.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to remove JPEG, MPEG, GIF, DOC and other unwanted patented software?
MIDI is a non-patented, non-secret format. It's pretty much just a sequence of notes. QM-coder is related to an obscure format called JBIG, not JPEG. And those patents are all expired. Why are you actively trying to find reasons to excommunicate file formats? You're still reacting to things you don't know about with extremism. I don't "hate" MP3 files. I also don't refuse to listen to them. I avoid distributing them because there are still some active patents on the format (until 2017 or 2018, I'm not sure which), and I don't want to invite legal trouble for myself or anyone else. The real issue is what formats are popularly being used. We need to work on non-patented, non-secret formats to make them better than patent-encumbered formats so that ordinary people will be more likely to choose them and harware manufacturers will be more likely to support hardware-accelerated decoding of them, and we need to make it easy for all relevant software (and that includes proprietary software) to support these non-patented, non-secret formats.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to remove JPEG, MPEG, GIF, DOC and other unwanted patented software?
Aye, to be honest patented hardware is a bigger problem. Yet I somehow doubt the original poster intends to cease to use a computer, or any of the other myriad patented objects so common in the Western world.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to remove JPEG, MPEG, GIF, DOC and other unwanted patented software?
I'm also a free software and free culture supporter, but this is a little bit much yea?
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to remove JPEG, MPEG, GIF, DOC and other unwanted patented software?
All patents expired? "Although the "baseline" variety of JPEG is believed patent-free, there are many patents associated with some optional features of JPEG, namely arithmetic coding and hierarchical storage. For this reason, these optional features are never used on the Web."
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to remove JPEG, MPEG, GIF, DOC and other unwanted patented software?
So, I can use JPEG & other now, MPEG at 2018. Please, close the topic.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to remove JPEG, MPEG, GIF, DOC and other unwanted patented software?
> If patented features are available on Trisquel, I need to remove the GUI, because I can't remove libjpeg without removing lots graphical packages. Then remove the GUI. I don't care; it's your life. But if you're going to be this absurdly paranoid, maybe you should just not use a computer at all. There are legitimate obstacles to liberty in computing we have to deal with, like the fact that all modern x86 CPUs refuse to even boot without proprietary software, and here you are moaning about imagined risks from patents that are not applicable, expired, not an imminent threat, or even purely hypothetical.
