Re: [libreplanet-discuss] An ethical compass for progress

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 «Progress is the myth that assures us that full-speed-ahead is never wrong. Ecology is the discipline that teaches us that it is disaster.» http://primitivism.com/facets-myth.htm - -- Alexander alexan...@plaimi.net

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RiseUp needs our help...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Is their server software AGPL or otherwise free software? - -- Alexander alexan...@plaimi.net https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXzum3AAoJENQqWdRUGk8B9GsP+wVhoyw2XlgJlsbn9fZ807+A

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Aseprite is now proprietary software

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/09/16 17:22, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: > monthly donations aren't always possible because the user doesn't > always have a fixed monthly income to do such donation. I am not suggesting enforcing a monthly donation on every user. >

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Aseprite is now proprietary software

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Something like flattr would be very useful. You could set up a flat monthly donation, e.g. €10, and then you could (through some interface) easily just say "support this software", on however many programs you want. The €10 would then be divided

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Aseprite is now proprietary software

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 31/08/16 22:09, amunizp wrote: > Bug report/issue on the commit? [0] will be more visible? This is also a possibility. Thank you for the idea. The issue tracker is at GitHub[0]. [0] - -- Alexander

[libreplanet-discuss] Aseprite is now proprietary software

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 One of my favourite gamedev tools, Aseprite, is now proprietary software[0]. Aseprite is a very good pixel art editor which is used by myself and lots of others to make free games. Please join me in letting the developers know that this is not

[libreplanet-discuss] Cross posting FSF announcements to libreplanet-discuss

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sometimes the FSF announces something, and I have a comment or question, but there's no clear channel for facilitating discussion on announcements. So I'd like to suggest that the FSF cross-post their announcements to libreplanet-discuss. There's

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Update on freeyourstuff.cc (content/user liberation)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/05/16 22:10, Aaron Wolf wrote: > Al3xu5 is right, CC0 is specifically designed to address this sort > of thing. Now I'm additionally confused, because I was the one pointing out that this is the point of CC0, and that al3xu5 were wrong in

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Update on freeyourstuff.cc (content/user liberation)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/05/16 17:53, Aaron Wolf wrote: > No, this is a total misunderstanding of CC0. The entire point of > CC0 is that it is better than just saying "public domain". It is > specifically written to have a license fallback and other wording > that

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Update on freeyourstuff.cc (content/user liberation)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/05/16 13:09, Tyler Romeo wrote: > copyright has nothing to do with ethics. If you're not talking about ethics, then I have no interest in explaining the fallacies in your misguided and unfounded views -- and there's lots of them in your last

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Update on freeyourstuff.cc (content/user liberation)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/05/16 12:03, Tyler Romeo wrote: > Maybe not all, but quite many of them hope to make a profit from > their creations. That doesn't enter into a discussion on ethics. > Unfortunately, whether you "subscribe" to the world view or not, > the

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Update on freeyourstuff.cc (content/user liberation)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/05/16 20:08, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > Please note that (if I have well understood) in some countries > (i.e. Italy) copyright laws do not admit releasing a work as > public domain unless after many years since their creation: so CC0 >

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about calling free systems as "GNU" systems (even if there is no GNU or Linux-libre)?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I find myself unable to comprehend what the discussion is about. Free systems are systems that preserve your four freedoms. GNU distributions are distributions that use GNU software. Linux distribution are distributions that use Linux. If there is

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] helping friends kill their facebook accounts

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 29/04/16 05:26, Mike Gerwitz wrote: > Once Facebook has your data, they have it And even if you think they don't have it, they probably have the data of everybody else you know... so they have it. The best thing to do is just to get out. Explain

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Questions about Google+

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 28/04/16 03:38, Mike Gerwitz wrote: > Finally: could you justify a free software project that promotes > software freedom prominently linking to and using a G+ profile for > the project? That depends on its intent and purpose. If Google+ (or

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] The dangers of repository deletion

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 13/04/16 18:45, Pen-Yuan Hsing wrote: > Old games might be a good starting point, because the copyright > holder might no longer have an interest in them and might be more > willing to sell the rights to those games? What do people think? In my

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] programming language package manager

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 As an incentive, perhaps the FSF could recognise ethical repositories on their Website. Although Hackage[0] rejected my patch to change "open source" to "free software", they have taken a commendably clear stance in rejecting nonfree software. I

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Copyfree [fix, i'm stupid]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 26/02/16 23:29, Yui Hirasawa wrote: > I don't want to do that because it might garble email that is > plaintext but has formatting. People should just learn to write > words with keyboard instead of a mouse instead. That should not be a problem.

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Copyfree

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 26/02/16 22:06, Blaise Alleyne wrote: > It does mean that bludgeoning people / copyright isn't always > wrong. Something can be bad yet necessary. One can e.g. reject power as a bad thing, but still accept that children should perhaps not have

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Copyfree

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 26/02/16 21:21, Richard Stallman wrote: > They have identified the problem wrong. The wrong in software is > not copyright. The wrong is proprietary software. They are both wrongs. > Copyright is one of several methods used to make software

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 The FSF should be about software, and the staff should strive not express their feelings regarding other things. As you correctly identify, free culture benefits the free software struggle (and vice versa) -- however, being anti-non-free culture

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/02/16 17:05, Joshua Gay wrote: > Out of curiousity, for those that do strongly believe all works > should be freely licensed, do you believe that GNU GPL, is > therefore itself a work that is an injustice to those who recieve > it and that it

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Best e-reader for free software

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Anyone know of a really simple e-reader with no network no nothing? I think I could make do with it if only were capable of file transfer (like any other USB mass storage thing-y) and viewing the most common formats. - -- Alexander

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Best e-reader for free software

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/02/16 14:19, John Sullivan wrote: > I use a Bebook running OpenInkpot. All free except the boot > loader. No wireless, but SD slot and USB. Thanks for the suggestion. Does it have backlight? And if it does, can it be turned off? - --

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] List of free as in freedom programming language

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/02/16 19:59, aurelien wrote: > Is there a list of free as in freedom programming language? Programming languages are not software, so you'll have to be a bit more specific as to what freedoms you mean. - -- Alexander alexan...@plaimi.net

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] WTFPL Worse License Ever?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 21/12/15 16:54, Yoni Rabkin wrote: > But as I said before, try to (as I have) to explain these jokes at > your company to a room of people who are hostile and/or ignorant > of free software and the joke loses its shine really fast. Fuck those

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Question about free (as in freedom) data from free software

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 28/10/15 23:32, Pen-Yuan Hsing wrote: > peer-reviews [in] scientific journal papers are the "currency" with > which academic performance is judged This is the reason I never got a PhD/ScD. You are expected to transfer your copyright to some

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] SaaSS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 25/10/15 04:52, Aaron Wolf wrote: > Software freedom as a value is about autonomy and independence and > creative freedoms and other values that still *exist* as concerns > even in cases without maliciousness. And AGPL is one of the things that

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] SaaSS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 24/10/15 20:42, Mike Gerwitz wrote: > I think that you might be talking about the risk of tricking users > by obfuscating or writing intentionally deceptive code I'm not. > [SaaSS is...] I know what SaaSS is. > By using SaaSS, you relinquish

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] SaaSS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 24/10/15 21:44, Mike Gerwitz wrote: > So you have still given up your control. You can only do the type > of computing that others say you can do, and if you try to say, "I > have an idea; let's do it this way!", then unless everyone else >

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] The GNU ethical repository criteria will only harm free software.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 24/10/15 04:04, Mike Gerwitz wrote: > I can imagine ways in which that this risk can be reduced, but > fundamentally, unless you can examine and modify the _exact > instance of_ the software that you run, you are not in control. This is overly

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] The GNU ethical repository criteria will only harm free software.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 22/10/15 03:21, Mike Gerwitz wrote: > GNU and the FSF stand against SaaSS. Saying that you are against SaaSS doesn't make any sense when you *develop SaaSS*, and are making ethical criteria for *using SaaSS*. And anyway, being "against SaaSS" is

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] The GNU ethical repository criteria will only harm free software.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 17/10/15 14:31, Robert Call (Bob) wrote: > [The GNU ethical repository criteria] is not solving the real > issues that we are now faced with. We can't continue to endorse any > one centralized place to host source code unless we want to >

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/07/13 23:29, Brandon Invergo wrote: OK, one other thing: we decided that the name GNU Developer Network can be a bit confusing, since some people read it and think that it would be specifically a dev network for official GNU package

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Call for testing: Qumble: Open-Source Software distribution for Windows

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/01/13 12:10, Alexey Eromenko wrote: The Qumble projects intends to teach Windows users the advantages of Free and Open-Source software The goals in terms of advantages of open source and free software are radically different. Open source

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Press Coverage

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 «Subscription Required». - -- Alexander alexan...@plaimi.net http://plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Ubuntu malware: what to do?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The solution is simple. Don't use Ubuntu. Tell other people to not use Ubuntu, and explain why they shouldn't. When speaking about free software, don't speak of Ubuntu. Free software is about user freedom. If it doesn't properly respect your

[libreplanet-discuss] LinkedIn group for free games

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 hi, If you have a LinkedIn account and are a free game developer or are otherwise interested in free games, read on - this email is for you! I made a networking group for LinkedIn members: