Re: [board-discuss] 'Free Beer' Office?

2020-08-03 Thread Telesto
Op 3-8-2020 om 15:57 schreef Michael Meeks: Hi Telesto, On 28/07/2020 21:35, Telesto wrote: I'm still getting a little annoyed by the 'free beer' matter. =) While at GNU they state "We sometimes call it “libre software,” borrowing the French or Spanish word for “free” as in freedom

Re: [board-discuss] 'Free Beer' Office?

2020-08-03 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Telesto, On 28/07/2020 21:35, Telesto wrote: > I'm still getting a little annoyed by the 'free beer' matter. =) > While at GNU they state "We sometimes call it “libre software,” > borrowing the French or Spanish word for “free” as in freedom, to > show we do not mean the software is g

Re: [board-discuss] 'Free Beer' Office?

2020-07-28 Thread Telesto
I'm still getting a little annoyed by the 'free beer' matter. The whole problem starts with different conceptualizations (contexts) how they term free is used. Free beer is used in context of the four freedoms in context of software development https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html not to

Re: [board-discuss] 'Free Beer' Office?

2020-07-27 Thread Mike Saunders
Hi Andreas, On 25/07/2020 09:58, Andreas Mantke wrote: > > for those who complains about LibreOffice campains stating free (like > free beer), here is a current example from the official LibreOffice account: > > https://twitter.com/libreoffice/status/128692953570496/photo/1 This is actually

Re: [board-discuss] 'Free Beer' Office?

2020-07-26 Thread Tuomas Hietala
Not to mention the decade-old (but, to this day, not superceded) example of the Next Decade Manifesto: [1] "Our Values WE COMMIT OURSELVES: To eliminate the digital divide in society by giving everyone access to office productivity tools free of charge to enable them to participate as full cit

Re: [board-discuss] 'Free Beer' Office?

2020-07-25 Thread Drew Jensen
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 11:44 AM toki wrote: > > On 2020/07/25 07:58, Andreas Mantke wrote: > > for those who complains about LibreOffice campains stating free (like > > free beer), here is a current example from the official LibreOffice account: > > > > https://twitter.com/libreoffice/status/1286

Re: [board-discuss] 'Free Beer' Office?

2020-07-25 Thread toki
On 2020/07/25 07:58, Andreas Mantke wrote: > for those who complains about LibreOffice campains stating free (like > free beer), here is a current example from the official LibreOffice account: > > https://twitter.com/libreoffice/status/128692953570496/photo/1 Both "No Registration" and "No V

[board-discuss] 'Free Beer' Office?

2020-07-25 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi, for those who complains about LibreOffice campains stating free (like free beer), here is a current example from the official LibreOffice account: https://twitter.com/libreoffice/status/128692953570496/photo/1 Regards, Andreas -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@doc