n URL; it could hardly be easier.
I thought we were looking for one-way streaming to a lot of people,
not for a meeting. But I could have misunderstood that.
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Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way
uation very much, because we
already know that the other "solution" is not a valid solution at all.
A nonfree program isn't a solution, it's the problem.
See http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foun
Mallory Knodel says that I can post her name
and email address. Please write to her for instructions
about free software streaming.
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Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way! See stallman.org
ungrateful and
nonconstructive.
I will ask them for a URL I could post.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.
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desktop-de
a way that lets
everyone watch with free software, and I know people who would be glad
to help you do this. When you want to do streaming, please write to me
and I will put you in touch with them.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Ha
t the idea of copyleft, with the usual nonsensical argument
that people aren't really free unless they can be led to lose their
freedom.
I don't think that we need to reject Github -- that would be too
strong a conclusion. But it certainly is a reason not to promote
Github.
--
Dr R
e-
honorary ones don't mean shit?
A doctorate honoris causa is a real doctorate. To get them required
many years of hard work on the GNU system, which you as a GNOME
developer also contribute to.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 0
quot;
means $0 software.
I often say "free/libre" software to help clear this up.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
Use E
commercial
software", it is very important to set the confusion straight.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-d
s to most of what GitHub or Savannah does.
Those are communication activities. You couldn't do them by calling
a library in your own computer. So it is ok to use services for that
(but pay attention to the privacy issues). However, it would be nice
if we could do it in a peer-to-peer
? Is usable
free software available NOW to use all the GitHub functionality
through that API? When we tell people about a GitHub repository, do
we recommend that free software? If so, maybe things are ok.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston
hosting services).
Any service can give information about you to big brother. It is a
common drawback of all services, so it does not make GitHub worse than
any other service.
What specific sort of vendor-lock do you see as a danger in regard
to GitHub?
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Soft
s thru the API
and then prominently suggest using it.
* We can avoid suggesting people use GitHub.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree
There are some licenses which are open source but not free.
They are _too restrictive_ to be free.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
Use Ekiga or an
27;s
free
software?
When you say that GitHub is "nonfree", what do you mean by that?
We do not have any definition for calling a service free or nonfree.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Fo
lso http://thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler for
Evgeny Morozov's article on the same point.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
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