Fwd: Re: On receiving an interview request from Uber

2016-12-18 Thread Paul Boddie
Charles, [Message was originally a private response, now forwarded to the list with permission.] > Hi Paul, is it for me to respond? Hmm I'll give it a shot ... Sure, but did you not also mean to reply to the list? ;-) > On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > > On Saturday 17.

Re: On receiving an interview request from Uber

2016-12-18 Thread mray
On 17.12.2016 18:46, Charles Cossé wrote: > What would that matter? > The question is "why would it not matter?" Free Software seems like a sensible default. Why would I ever *prefer* trusting my body/life with software that is a secret to everybody but the manufacturer? (Same with all kinds of

FreeSoftware Jobs was:Re: On receiving an interview request from Uber

2016-12-18 Thread amunizp
El 17 de diciembre de 2016 20:47:34 GMT+00:00, Joe Awni escribió: >Theo, > >It's an uphill battle. > >If you want to join a professional network that does not spam and is >made >with 100% FOSS, i can recommend the Crypto-Currency Business Directory: >http://cryptobiz.directory > Does that have a

Re: On receiving an interview request from Uber

2016-12-18 Thread Charles Cossé
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 7:35 AM, mray wrote: > > On 17.12.2016 18:46, Charles Cossé wrote: > > What would that matter? > > > > The question is "why would it not matter?" > Free Software seems like a sensible default. > > Why would I ever *prefer* trusting my body/life with software that is a >

Re: On receiving an interview request from Uber

2016-12-18 Thread Carsten Agger
On 12/18/2016 08:03 PM, Charles Cossé wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 7:35 AM, mray > wrote: On 17.12.2016 18:46, Charles Cossé wrote: > What would that matter? > The question is "why would it not matter?" Free Software seems like a sensible default.

Re: On receiving an interview request from Uber

2016-12-18 Thread Charles Cossé
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Carsten Agger wrote: > > [...] > > The questions you ask here are very basic and can be answered by yourself > if you read the articles at > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html carefully. > Yes, thank you, I've read it several times in the past 20 ye

Re: On receiving an interview request from Uber

2016-12-18 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Charles Cossé wrote: I get the feeling that the FSF communities hold an underlying belief that the freedom being espoused is somehow fundamental, as in a universal truth or moral oblication. Software freedom is an ethical issue for the free software movement. This is one of the defining charac

Re: On receiving an interview request from Uber

2016-12-18 Thread Charles Cossé
Greetings, at some point I will become guilty of engaging in redundant conversation . Initially in this thread I merely sought to agree that Uber were undermining not only other taxi drivers, but their own taxi drivers, as I believe tha

What's so important about the ethics of free software?

2016-12-18 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Charles Cossé wrote: Statements like "Free Software supports education, proprietary software forbids" [1] strike me as outrageous and counter-productive. A proprietary program's license is designed to offer no permission for its users to learn how that program

Re: What's so important about the ethics of free software?

2016-12-18 Thread Charles Cossé
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 10:48 PM, J.B. Nicholson wrote: > Charles Cossé wrote: > >> Statements like "Free Software supports education, proprietary software >> forbids" [1] strike me as outrageous and >> counter-productive. >> > > A proprietary program's license is