[libreplanet-discuss] how would an activist start with Free Software?

2016-02-07 Thread Daniel Pocock
Some of you may have seen my recent blog about another group starting up to "democratize" Europe[1], with a heavy reliance on undemocratic platforms like Facebook that seems contrary to their aims. If people from this campaign or any other like it wanted to bootstrap themselves in a Free

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Reverse Engineering

2016-02-07 Thread Giuseppe Molica
>Fabio Pesari writes: > Fortunately crowdfunding exists, so we could gather those resources > simply by paying for them, just like everybody else in the industry does! > > The free software movement must quit the mentality that it should rely > on volunteer contributions, for its

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] how would an activist start with Free Software?

2016-02-07 Thread Fabio Pesari
On 02/07/2016 09:49 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > Some of you may have seen my recent blog about another group starting up > to "democratize" Europe[1], with a heavy reliance on undemocratic > platforms like Facebook that seems contrary to their aims. > > If people from this campaign or any other

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Reverse Engineering

2016-02-07 Thread Giuseppe Molica
>Fabio Pesari writes: > That's why I say we should build our computers from hardware components > with libre designs. > > I think reverse engineering can be a waste of time, if what it achieves > is being able to run free software on a single outdated, underpowered > and

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] how would an activist start with Free Software?

2016-02-07 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 07/02/16 10:03, Fabio Pesari wrote: > On 02/07/2016 09:49 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> >> Some of you may have seen my recent blog about another group starting up >> to "democratize" Europe[1], with a heavy reliance on undemocratic >> platforms like Facebook that seems contrary to their aims.

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] how would an activist start with Free Software?

2016-02-07 Thread Christopher M. Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 11:02:59 +0100 Daniel Pocock wrote: > I mean how would they start their organization, "movement", campaign, > party or whatever form their group chooses, e.g. > > a) install GNU/Linux on personal computers >