Il 13/03/22 05:52, Aaron Wolf ha scritto:
The inventors of nuclear technology might feel guilty about their role
in the threat of nuclear war, but it's too late now to undo that.
The same is true or any invention or creation. You can hope to keep it
secret if it's so dangerous, but once it's o
I agree with most of that, but I don't accept the idea that centralized
vs decentralized is simply a questions of personal inclination/assumptions.
I think we can recognize shared concerns about ethics and consider that
the structure of power might be a pragmatic implementation issue. It
might
hi aa, all
my perspective is, that politics has no part in thinking software
freedom(s).
also, i find your positions on the question very ethically questionable,
shame on you.
g
On 13. 03. 22 16:07, Aaron Wolf wrote:
I agree with most of that, but I don't accept the idea that
centralized
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Aaron Wolf wrote:
The recent podcast from Humane Tech folks grapples with the
complexities of this issue:
https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/49-the-dark-side-of-decentralization
Now, that does not really relate to powerful government entities like
the Russian military, but it does get into qu
Jean Louis wrote:
* Miles Fidelman [2022-03-11 20:54]:
Then again, we might want to spend a bit more time SCRUTINIZING SUBMISSIONS
to the repositories. I expect that the Russians (among others) are spending
a bit more time, of late, inserting malware into things - to better
distribute disinfor
* Aaron Wolf [2022-03-12 20:48]:
> The recent podcast from Humane Tech folks grapples with the complexities of
> this issue:
From your link:
> https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/49-the-dark-side-of-decentralization
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Hi,
On Sat, Mar 12 2022, DRS wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> Can live libreplanet presentations be viewed using a web browser, e.g.,
> abrowser or is a separate client required?
It should work in any browser that supports the HTML5 tag,
Abrowser included.
In my experience, it seems split 50/50 bet
There is much discussion here on restricting access to free software
source code and packages from Russia as a means to stymie their war
effort.
Here I provide some links on an effort in another direction: getting
the truth about the war into Russia.
Ukraine: Spam website set up to reach millions
On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 3:01 PM Dora Scilipoti <[1]d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Richard did not found the free
> software/libre movement, as well as his world, alone.
Yes, he founded it alone:
[2]https://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html
Even Wikipedia got it right:
Gregor, I don't know if you're talking to me as "aa" but your "shame on
you" comment is out of line. I didn't even express my positions, I
brought up questions for discussion. You don't know what my position is.
Software freedom is itself a political issue, it's not merely "open
source" develo
That's a pretty much substance free comment. An axiomatic pronouncement
- of both an opinion & judgement.
And, just for the record... of COURSE politics has a part in thinking
about software freedoms - copyrights, enforcement/protection thereof,
business practices - all are subject to law, re
Em 2022-03-13 16:22, Adrienne G. Thompson escreveu:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 3:01 PM Dora Scilipoti <[1]d...@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Richard did not found the free
> > software/libre movement, as well as his world, alone.
> Yes, he founded it alone:
> [2]https://www.gnu.org/gnu/i
* Erica Frank [2022-03-10 18:33]:
> This makes no sense.
> "Free software" does not mean "until you use it for immoral or illegal
> purposes."
Thanks for your opinion. Yes.
Regarding "immoral":
Please note that what is immoral is hard to define; it is vague and
thus becomes unjust. For an avera
> Thus the software is "open source" but it is not free software.
No, it is absolutely not.
The founders of the open source movement, the Open Source Initiative,
Debian (which also uses the term "open source"), many software
communities and even several government agencies all mean
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