Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free as in Freedom Access to Hardware

2012-07-07 Thread Bryan Baldwin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/08/2012 06:28 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > "We require four things: Free software, free hardware, free > culture and free spectrum" - > http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/berlin-keynote.html I love that speech. Thinking about it puts a s

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free as in Freedom Access to Hardware

2012-07-07 Thread Dave Crossland
On 7 July 2012 23:12, Bryan Baldwin wrote: > Borrowing from Professor Moglen's ideology, free hardware (runnig free > software) is the second step in attacking this problem. In this case, > we mean that the specifications, designs, and interfaces for the > hardware we use to effect our destinies a

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free as in Freedom Access to Hardware

2012-07-07 Thread Bryan Baldwin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/08/2012 06:15 AM, Thomas Harding wrote: > I fully agree with that. A strong, good "constitution" is needed to > try to avoid problems. > > A point of failure is "who is in charge" of hardware/sysadmin. In > fact, even on Savannah you are in la

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free as in Freedom Access to Hardware

2012-07-07 Thread Thomas Harding
On 07/07/2012 19:44, Richard Stallman wrote: I am not opposed to capitalism as such, and I don't think that the surveillance imposed of ISPs is the result of their capitalistic nature. It comes from the state, sometimes at the behest of the copyright companies, sometimes for other state purposes

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free as in Freedom Access to Hardware (was: GAMING COLLECTIVE: Anybody play Ryzom?)

2012-07-07 Thread Richard Stallman
The questions you've raised are very abstract -- I don't think in those terms. I am not opposed to capitalism as such, and I don't think that the surveillance imposed of ISPs is the result of their capitalistic nature. It comes from the state, sometimes at the behest of the copyright companies, s