Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Products you want to see in the 2016 Giving Guide?

2016-12-02 Thread Adam Bolte
On 03/12/16 06:41, Ineiev wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 10:05:56AM -0500, Mariah Noelle Villarreal wrote: >> OsmAnd with a device mounting system instead of a Garmin or Google Maps > > OsmAnd is proprietary. > Actually it is free software (GPLv3) with non-free assets (CC-BY-ND-NC). https://g

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Libre Email Service Recommendations

2016-09-08 Thread Adam Bolte
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:15:48PM -0700, Nathan Edson wrote: > Many apologies if this has already been answered a million times. What > are the current recommendations for libre email services? I've looked > high and low and seem to come up with the regular suggestions of gmail > etc... > > I don

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What is ThinkPenguin?

2016-05-27 Thread Adam Bolte
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:08:12PM -0400, Patrick wrote: > Chris is on the Trisquel list all the time helping others. Isn't > this just silly in-fighting? Is it worth criticizing people who sell > computers with closed source firmware when there is so very little > to choose from otherwise? > > I

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What is ThinkPenguin?

2016-05-27 Thread Adam Bolte
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 10:17:23AM +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: > I’m pretty curious, how did thinkpenguin.com explain themselves when > you asked them? I didn't ask (although perhaps I should have), I just assumed they know what they're selling. It's the only time I've ever purchased anything

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What is ThinkPenguin?

2016-05-26 Thread Adam Bolte
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 08:16:27PM +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: > On 26/05/16 13:41, Greg Wright wrote: > As for USB wireless adapters — TPE-N150USB and TPE-N150USBL — they > are based on Atheros AR9271 chipset, so firmware and drivers are > meant to be included in your operating system distribu

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Solving the deployment crisis with GNU Guix video

2016-03-31 Thread Adam Bolte
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:23:50PM -0400, k054 wrote: > El 31/03/16 a las 18:28, Thompson, David escribió: > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Adam Bolte > > wrote: > >> Does anyone know if Christopher Webber and David Thompson's talk > >> "Solvin

[libreplanet-discuss] Solving the deployment crisis with GNU Guix video

2016-03-31 Thread Adam Bolte
Does anyone know if Christopher Webber and David Thompson's talk "Solving the deployment crisis with GNU Guix" from LibrePlanet was recorded, and if there are plans to upload it to media.libreplanet.org? Thanks, Adam signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Slides for Deb Nicholson's 2015 LibrePlanet talk?

2016-02-22 Thread Adam Bolte
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 07:37:10PM -0500, Michael Lamb wrote: > > I'd be happy to post them directly on the FSF's MediaGoblin instance, if > > someone with access wanted to help me make that happen. > > I don't have that access, but I would love to see that happen, since > (last I checked) SlideSh

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Bull Codes - Community coding is dead.

2015-08-18 Thread Adam Bolte
On 18/08/15 19:40, aurelien wrote: Because of many reasons, from difficulty to bring improvement, fusion of type of service to a type of technology, to lack of activity, bull.codes is dead. Sorry for thus who have used Bull Codes, we hope you will find a free repo hosting service able to respond

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Why contains in nonfree that's not ethical?

2015-03-18 Thread Adam Bolte
On 19/03/15 02:14, Michael Siepmann wrote: > Thanks. Your thoughts led me to the idea of trying Wine in a > virtualized instance of GNU/Linux, so any Windows applications would be > sandboxed and not have access to my physical computer. (I see at > http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f566a12c806a1eac

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Amusing Free Software Story

2015-03-17 Thread Adam Bolte
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 04:26:48AM +0100, rysiek wrote: > Dnia wtorek, 17 marca 2015 13:22:55 Aaron Wolf pisze: > > "Freedom software" is acceptable enough… indeed "free software" is > > broken in that you can't even search for it reliably because of the > > confusion over the term. > > I have a d

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Why contains in nonfree that's not ethical?

2015-03-17 Thread Adam Bolte
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 07:31:32PM -0600, Michael Siepmann wrote: > What about running Windows as a virtual machine in VirtualBox on > GNU/Linux? That's what I'm doing currently. I'd appreciate any > insights or advice about the pros and cons of that approach. I think that's fine, however Virtua

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Why contains in nonfree that's not ethical?

2015-03-17 Thread Adam Bolte
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 07:49:00PM -0500, Will Hill wrote: > The idea is for the efforts to have tangible rewards. It's easier > than you think it is, even if you are forced to use non free > software at work. I'm not sure I follow. Do you have any examples I could use? The policy regarding GPG i

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Why contains in nonfree that's not ethical?

2015-03-17 Thread Adam Bolte
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:01:39PM -0500, Will Hill wrote: > On Tuesday 17 March 2015, Adam Bolte wrote: > > the expectation is that they are getting something useful or > > interesting to them in exchange for giving up their privacy > > We should not be passive and wait for

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Why contains in nonfree that's not ethical?

2015-03-17 Thread Adam Bolte
On 18/03/15 00:57, Will Hill wrote: > On Monday 16 March 2015, Adam Bolte wrote: >> If you talk to people on the street, I suspect they'll all say >> something similar to what you have heard - that they care about >> privacy issues. But when you actually look at what

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Why contains in nonfree that's not ethical?

2015-03-16 Thread Adam Bolte
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 03:02:24AM +0100, rysiek wrote: > Dnia wtorek, 17 marca 2015 10:39:36 Adam Bolte pisze: > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:26:08PM +0100, rysiek wrote: > > > The prevailing "feel" when I talk to people about privacy (and > > > due to my li

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Why contains in nonfree that's not ethical?

2015-03-16 Thread Adam Bolte
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:26:08PM +0100, rysiek wrote: > Dnia niedziela, 15 marca 2015 21:00:47 Lori Nagel pisze: > > People actually do care about privacy a lot. I've talked to a lot > > of people outside the free software movement, and some of them > > don't use facebook, or don't use it as muc

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Why contains in nonfree that's not ethical?

2015-03-15 Thread Adam Bolte
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 07:17:43AM -0700, Milton Krutt wrote: > Let's divide people in two sets: We, and the Others. > Let's also mention some humans' things: > > Interest (in something), > Money, > Privacy. > > For the Geeks: > the more you are able to deploy your software and limit the four fre

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] TurboCash

2014-01-26 Thread Adam Bolte
On 27/01/14 05:38, David Loyall wrote: > Adam, thank you. Somehow I'd failed to notice that the package is in > Debian's 'non-free' section when I googled up the package page. > Pardon me! No worries. I'm a fan of the DXX-Rebirth project too (sent the lead dev a postcard a while back - he collect

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] TurboCash

2014-01-20 Thread Adam Bolte
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:47:38AM -0600, David Loyall wrote: > There was this non-free game for PC called Descent, back in the mid > nineties. (It wasn't called a non-free game back then, it was just > called a cool game!) At some point, the source was re-licensed as > free software, but not the

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Alternatives to non-freedom-friendly webmail services?

2013-06-21 Thread Adam Bolte
1+ for everybody running their own mail servers. On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 08:52:10AM +0200, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > On 20/06/13 16:49, Jason Self wrote: > > Easy: Run your own. > This is *not* easy. Not for a professional, not for an amateur, > certainly not for a luddite. I think you'll find

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] GFDL with Invariant Sections or other unmodifiable parts. Was: Final Thesis: H-node

2013-05-19 Thread Adam Bolte
On 20/05/13 02:04, Michael Dorrington wrote: > On 19/05/13 16:50, systemsaviour.com wrote: >> On 20/05/13 01:08, Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak wrote: >>> Dnia niedziela, 19 maja 2013 o 15:39:57 Michael Dorrington napisał(a): On 19/05/13 14:20, Thomas Harding wrote: > Le 19/05/2013 14:52, Michael

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] appreciation payment protocol

2012-08-25 Thread Adam Bolte
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 07:40:01AM +0100, Ramana Kumar wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Robert Martinez wrote: > > On 23/08/12 10:02, Ramana Kumar wrote: > >> Does anyone have other ideas? > >> > > That would be imitating flatter locally with bitcoin. > > Sure, that might be a good idea

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] LibrePlanet 2012 recordings?

2012-06-20 Thread Adam Bolte
s as > well: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2012-05/msg00156.html > There was no answer. > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Adam Bolte wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Sorry if this has been asked previously, as I'm new to the l

[libreplanet-discuss] LibrePlanet 2012 recordings?

2012-06-20 Thread Adam Bolte
Hi all, Sorry if this has been asked previously, as I'm new to the list and it looks to me like the archives have been disabled (even for account holders). https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/private/libreplanet-discuss/ I was looking through the wiki and was very impressed with the list of sp