Re: Parabola-rM: Desktop GNU/Linux on E-Paper Tablet

2020-09-02 Thread Isaac David
sking for an option to cover this area. Hopefully that might change for 2020. On a side note, I also find it amusing that the same phenomenon (electrophoresis) is used both in biochemistry/molecular biology for detecting stuff, say a DNA test, and for making ebook displays. --

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Is Stallman nuts?

2019-09-17 Thread Isaac David
I know I'm not replying directly to the mail I'm supposed to. >On Tue, September 17, 2019 7:59 pm, Leah Rowe wrote: >> >> women (and LGBT people, and black people etc) are routinely >> descriminated against, and less likely to get involved in tech. The latter isn't necessarily a consequence of

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free Mark Down Editor and Reader

2018-04-09 Thread Isaac David
the software on. I can commend Emacs in markdown mode. It will tick all the checkboxes in your query (yes, it can render markdown into HTML via `markdown`), and many more. One editor to rule them all. -- Isaac David GPG: 38D33EF29A7691134357648733466E12EC7BA943 Ring

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Adding [A]GPLv3+ code to Quake-based code base

2017-08-29 Thread Isaac David
is often equivocated with relicense-ability. -- Isaac David GPG: 38D33EF29A7691134357648733466E12EC7BA943 ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Adding [A]GPLv3+ code to Quake-based code base

2017-08-29 Thread Isaac David
Lyberta wrote : are GPLv2+ and AGPLv3+ compatible? yes. GPLv3 and AGPLv3 are compatible, AGPLv3+ implies AGPLv3, therefore GPLv3 and AGPLv3+ are compatible. GPLv3 and AGPLv3+ are compatible, GPLv2+ implies GPLv3, therefore, GPLv2+ and AGPLv3+ are compatible. -- Isaac David GPG

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] helping newcomers start blogs - but where?

2017-08-19 Thread Isaac David
been born in a society with a strong tradition of freedom that won't tolerate authoritarians for long. -- Isaac David GPG: 38D33EF29A7691134357648733466E12EC7BA943 Tox: 0C730E0156E96E6193A1445D413557FF5F277BA969A4EA20AC9352889D3B390E77651E816F0C

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [Dev] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-14 Thread Isaac David
discussion. [1]: https://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/pkg-chromium-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org.html#chromium-browser[2]: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/catapult/tracing/third_party/d3/d3.min.js -- Isaac David GPG: 38D33EF29A769113435764873346

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Machine learning and copyleft

2016-12-10 Thread Isaac David
uired guarantees? I don't think so. The (A)GPL is as strong as it gets. You could always try to add your own contractual terms on top of the GPL or its spirit thereof, at the risk of making your software incompatible with everything else. -- Isaac David GPG: 38D33EF2

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [GNU-linux-libre] [Dev] [consensus][due: 2016-06-13]: New version for Parabola Social Contract

2016-06-15 Thread Isaac David
Le mar. 14 juin 2016 à 22:16, Isaac David <isacdaa...@isacdaavid.info> a écrit : essentially the same Luke Shumaker's latest version I mean "same as Luke Shumaker's"

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [Dev] [consensus][due: 2016-06-13]: New version for Parabola Social Contract

2016-06-14 Thread Isaac David
Le mar. 14 juin 2016 à 21:09, coadde a écrit : I would give you my proposal based on opinions made by all users in these days here, what do you think guys? Besides adding a link to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OpinionLicenses and not explicitly mentioning

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [Dev] [GNU-linux-libre] [consensus][due: 2016-06-13]: New version for Parabola Social Contract

2016-06-10 Thread Isaac David
Le jeu. 9 juin 2016 à 18:54, Luke a écrit : On 06/09/2016 07:46 PM, André Silva wrote: On 06/09/2016 08:08 PM, Riley Baird wrote: What about "Arch (the GNU/Linux distribution)"? +1 I agree with your suggestion because it solves this issue for the Social Contract.

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] freedom problems in docker

2016-04-15 Thread Isaac David
Le ven. 15 avril 2016 à 17:51, Richard Stallman a écrit : What is docker? I don't think I recognize that name. An application container format for GNU/Linux systems. Docker packages (called containers) are popular for deploying isolated Internet applications. These

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Is this where the video recording are gonna be uploaded?

2016-03-20 Thread Isaac David
Le dim. 20 mars 2016 à 11:18, Gary David Ruiz dela Rosa a écrit : Hi! Is this where the video recordings gonna be uploaded? Thanks! Check https://media.libreplanet.org/videos in the future. I have saved some stream captures at https://isacdaavid.info/libreplanet2016,

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Encouraging libraries to use free software

2016-02-17 Thread Isaac David
Hi Esteban, This sounds like a project for the Library Freedom Project. They participated last year in the Libreplanet conference.

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] libreplanet-discuss Digest, Vol 71, Issue 6

2016-02-05 Thread Isaac David
Le ven. 5 févr. 2016 à 8:52, Mike C a écrit : Wait isn't there a way to setup libreoffice in server mode and use it through a webbrowser? Yes, through the GTK+ Broadway backend, but the code isn't quite stable AFAIK. Moreover there are true web free software applications

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

2016-02-03 Thread Isaac David
Le mer. 3 févr. 2016 à 20:07, carl hansen a écrit : On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:59 AM, aurelien wrote: Is there a list of free as in freedom programming language? http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html#Software start of a list. Algol? You

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

2016-02-03 Thread Isaac David
It does purposefully contain programming language implementations though. For instance, the A+ language entry on that page doesn't even contain information on what language it's implemented in, which suggests that it was tagged with the "Software-development:programming-language" solely to

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] C.H.I.P. $9 computer respects your freedom, maybe?

2015-11-30 Thread Isaac David
I took a quick look into their hardware documentation[1] and I found the C.H.I.P. is allegedly using a Mali 400 GPU and a Ralink RTL8723 WiFi+Bluetooth chip, none of which work without proprietary software to my knowledge. Linux-libre deblobs the RTL8723 firmware[2]. [1]

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Server service for social media

2015-11-01 Thread Isaac David
Corehost offers virtual private servers and is very emphatical about free software (http://corehost.us/about.html); fees are steep though. Have you considered hosting it yourself? There are projects like Freedombox aimed at making personal servers on small devices easier to set up and use.

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

2015-10-29 Thread Isaac David
Free the data at the time you publish your paper. Private information is not proprietary, it's the act of publishing and distributing it what raises questions of freedom. This is why free software solves a social, not just individual, problem. In acordance to the scientific ethos, one would