Re: Support RMS

2021-04-13 Thread Adrienne G. Thompson
> The intent to destroy the Free Software Movement for the purposes of procuring financial advantage might even be criminal and should be investigated This sounds like a big claim. What's the evidence? It's not a "claim". We already know that corporations are behind the attack. I

Re: Support RMS

2021-04-13 Thread Adrienne G. Thompson
On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 6:24 AM Ali Reza Hayati <[1]a...@gnu.org> wrote: As the lies are still being told and not-at-all-proven accusations go on, I thought it's good to mention the [2]https://stallmansupport.org site. It has a link to the support letter and also includ

How can continue RMS work?

2021-04-13 Thread joinlaw
hi, Many discussions started about the conflict with RMS but no one (or only few people) ask about how can continue Stallman work and with work I don't mean GCC, Coreutils, or emacs because he stops serious programming from years but I mean he is work horse he attend many many (many) events in m

Re: Helping new contributors

2021-04-13 Thread Jean Louis
Thank you Lori. I like to comment on your thoughts here: * Lori Nagel via libreplanet-discuss [2021-04-13 18:29]: > I want to clarify some things that make it hard for software users > to advocate for freedom respecting software. If we do not know what > all these programs are and why people us

Re: Support RMS

2021-04-13 Thread quiliro
Dennis Payne writes: > On Tue, 2021-04-13 at 06:37 +0100, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss > wrote: >> Our >> collective actions can counter defamation easily by posting and >> spreading the truth. >> >> Paul > > No it can't. Lots of sources spread correct information about the > election y

Re: Support RMS

2021-04-13 Thread Adrienne G. Thompson
On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:21 AM Jean Louis wrote: > Can you easily sue people who are backed by multi billion dollar > companies, or more to the point sue and win. Of course it is possible. And need not cost much. As members of the free software community we may have standi

Re: Helping new contributors

2021-04-13 Thread Lori Nagel via libreplanet-discuss
I want to clarify some things that make it hard for software users to advocate for freedom respecting software. If we do not know what all these programs are and why people use them, it makes it much harder to do anything about them. Facebook = cloud service running non-free software

Re: GFDL license help

2021-04-13 Thread quiliro
Jean Louis writes: > * quil...@riseup.net [2021-04-12 17:21]: >> Ali Reza Hayati writes: >> >> > I don't want to use those licenses again. I'm trying to avoid any >> > organization that signed RMS' resignation letter. I still contribute >> > to communities' works but I won't be using or contri

Re: GFDL license help

2021-04-13 Thread quiliro
Jean Louis writes: > That shows how corrupt are organizations. For people it is hard to > tell, as I do not know none of them. I know few good programmers and > good persons who speak against RMS in unfounded manner and I am kind > of negatively surprised how their minds work. In general, I expec

Re: [Packages - Privacy Issue #3010] (not-a-bug) telegram-desktop: phone number is released to other telegram users having the phone number in their addressbook

2021-04-13 Thread quiliro
Jean Louis writes: > More viewpoints to consider for removal of this package from Parabola: > == > > High priority projects for FSF: Decentralization, federation, and > self-hosting > https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-proje

Re: Support RMS

2021-04-13 Thread Dennis Payne
On Tue, 2021-04-13 at 06:37 +0100, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss wrote: > Our > collective actions can counter defamation easily by posting and > spreading the truth. > > Paul No it can't. Lots of sources spread correct information about the election yet a large enough group felt it was w

Re: Support RMS

2021-04-13 Thread Jean Louis
> Can you easily sue people who are backed by multi billion dollar > companies, or more to the point sue and win. Of course it is possible. And need not cost much. But it is not about large companies, there are just few individual accusers. Additionally when there are criminal elements, it does n

Re: GFDL license help

2021-04-13 Thread Jean Louis
* quil...@riseup.net [2021-04-13 16:42]: > I might not be able to accomplish my intent. I am thinking that maybe > it could not be convenient either. But what I meant is that I would > promote only projects that support RMS. Some projects might have their > own policy and would not want to take

Re: Helping new contributors

2021-04-13 Thread Jean Louis
* Suushi via libreplanet-discuss [2021-04-12 17:22]: > > >> By doing this ourselves, as advocates of free software, we can > > >> include links to why free software methologies are better, even if > > >> we have to be a little flexible in what we use for support and > > >> communication, Discours