Re: libreplanet-discuss Digest, Vol 141, Issue 53

2022-01-30 Thread Dr Andrew A. Adams
s problematic to people highly invested in the "Free/Libre Hardware" movement. -- Dr Andrew A. Adams E-mail:a...@meiji.ac.jp Web: <http://www.a-cubed.info/> ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org

RE : Ideas to promote making and using free hardware designs (was Re: FSF continuously harms Free Hardware)

2022-01-23 Thread Dr Andrew A. Adams
uces GCODE for sending to CONTROL, which controls some machines. This does not seem to meet all of the toolchain you need, but it seems to fill at least part of it. -- Dr Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji Un

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] ethical edtech edit-a-thon

2019-03-14 Thread Prof Andrew A. Adams
rces such as direct human intelligence (HUMINT), or signals interception (SIGINT) such as the NSA's cracking into FB, Google, et al. I commonly use the term FLOSS (Free, Libre, Open Source Software) to try and capture the broad set with the most precise edges and minimal amb

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Buying the rights to proprietary programs to free them

2016-03-18 Thread Andrew A. Adams
COULD register with the UK's copyright licensing authority to get some modest payments if I could be bothered. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] LibRay solves what problem?

2016-01-24 Thread Andrew A. Adams
multiple channels of distribution, including streaming, download and physical delivery of content. Postal delivery of a Blu-Ray technology disk may in fact be a time- and/or cost-effective way to provide that content. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Profes

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] freedom #0

2015-06-02 Thread Andrew A. Adams
any running such software they'll be investigating the source of it. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] libreplanet-discuss Digest, Vol 61, Issue 35

2015-03-19 Thread Andrew A. Adams
t it is. Many people think they understand what "Free Software" means, but their answers as to what pieces of software are "free software" bizarrely includes things like Microsoft Windows and Office (proprietary, non-gratis), Adobe Acrobat Reader (proprietary, gratis) an

[libreplanet-discuss] Request for Interview Subjects for FLOSS Research Projects

2015-03-09 Thread Andrew A. Adams
me of your valuable time at LibrePlanet to help with my research, please contact me directly (off-list) on a...@meiji.ac.jp. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Bus