Help us spread software freedom

2021-11-15 Thread Greg Farough
Hi, all, We've launched our fall fundraiser today, and will have some surprises to announce in the coming weeks. We hope that you'll spread the message and help us lead other people to software freedom by the time it ends on December 31. And if you're an associate member, please keep an eye out

Re: federated free software movement

2021-11-15 Thread Jean Louis
* Leah Rowe via libreplanet-discuss [2021-11-13 17:31]: >What if there was a combined Free Software, OSHW and Right to Repair >group, providing ideological leadership in a peer to peer fashion via >federated services (including Git-based code hosting) and an emphasis >on teaching

federated free software movement

2021-11-15 Thread Leah Rowe via libreplanet-discuss
What if there was a combined Free Software, OSHW and Right to Repair group, providing ideological leadership in a peer to peer fashion via federated services (including Git-based code hosting) and an emphasis on teaching how to self-host your own federated hosting infrastructure?

Re: federated free software movement

2021-11-15 Thread Jean Louis
* Arthur Torrey [2021-11-14 22:17]: > As such, coming at folks w/ an attitude of 'proprietary is evil and > only Free solutions are acceptable' is not going to win friends... > We need to be willing to say that partially free / open is better > than totally locked down, even if it needs

Re: federated free software movement

2021-11-15 Thread vidak
On 2021-11-14 10:03, Arthur Torrey wrote: > I think that this would be a really good idea, as I see a great deal > of overlap between the motivations and ideals of the groups... It > might also be worth reaching out to the 'maker' world as well since it > also has a lot of overlap I don't do

Re: federated free software movement

2021-11-15 Thread Jean Louis
* Arthur Torrey [2021-11-14 22:17]: > As I said, I was only using 'purity' for lack of a better term... > One of the issues that I see is that there isn't always a Free (as > in source code, might or might not be free as in beer) solution, or > one that doesn't involve significant sacrifices...

Re: federated free software movement

2021-11-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Leah Rowe via libreplanet-discuss wrote: What if there was a combined Free Software, OSHW and Right to Repair group, providing ideological leadership in a peer to peer fashion via federated services (including Git-based code hosting) and an emphasis on teaching how to self-host

Re: federated free software movement

2021-11-15 Thread Jacob Hrbek
I love the idea and I would like to join the effort as I criticize the actions taken by FSF in relation to libre hardware (endorsements of proprietary in Respect your Freedom campaign and endorsement of librem devices that seems to have a built-in backdoor), but I am not sure whether I trust

Re: Linux distro chooser

2021-11-15 Thread vidak
=> distro picker always points to GNU Guix (: On 2021-10-29 12:48, Jean Louis wrote: > stuff ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss

Re: federated free software movement

2021-11-15 Thread Lohan G
On 11/13/21 7:59 PM, Leah Rowe via libreplanet-discuss wrote: What if there was a combined Free Software, OSHW and Right to Repair group, providing ideological leadership in a peer to peer fashion via federated services (including Git-based code hosting) and an emphasis on

Re: federated free software movement

2021-11-15 Thread Robert Read
I think such an organization that could provide a powerful voice tying together free-libre open source hardware and right-to-repair would be valuable. I don't know if existing organizations are covering that ground or not. On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 8:29 AM Leah Rowe via

Re: federated free software movement

2021-11-15 Thread Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
On 14/11/2021 20:27, Thomas Lord wrote: I think the FSF should have gone in this direction a long time ago. I think it is a very good idea to add to what you described: a. Distributed decentralized business models that are NOT    "getting paid to program" or "getting paid to contribute