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

2016-08-31 Thread Koz Ross
As the maintainer of awesome-gamedev, this is *very* concerning to me. Thank you for letting me know - I will amend my link to point to the fork for now, and will contact the Aseprite people via email and let them know my thoughts. -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-free

[libreplanet-discuss] Seeking some Web-based software instance for interactive teaching task

2016-07-08 Thread Koz Ross
be free software. Ideally, this Web-based program should require minimal setup (so, no registration would be nice). Could anyone suggest anything? I (and my students) would be very grateful! -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't using GPG, you should be!

[libreplanet-discuss] EOMA68 - libre software, libre hardware, and eco-friendly too!

2016-07-01 Thread Koz Ross
ola.nu https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev - End forwarded message ----- -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't using GPG, you should be! https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en. Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] EOMA68 - libre software, libre hardware, and eco-friendly too!

2016-07-01 Thread Koz Ross
answer. -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't using GPG, you should be! https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en. Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html for why. Proud member of th

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] EOMA68 - libre software, libre hardware, and eco-friendly too!

2016-06-30 Thread Koz Ross
Hi Tobias, Where is this driver located? How difficult would it be to build and set up? Last I heard, it wasn't yet workable. If there *is* a driver for the Mali 400, that *would* be really awesome. -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't using GP

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] EOMA68 - libre software, libre hardware, and eco-friendly too!

2016-06-30 Thread Koz Ross
roblem. you don't need 3D graphics to edit a spreadsheet, in other words. that's not to say that technically-aware people cannot compile their own source code and include mali.ko: both we and the FSF recognise that people have that absolute right to do that. we just don't endorse it, that's all

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] EOMA68 - libre software, libre hardware, and eco-friendly too!

2016-06-29 Thread Koz Ross
on CrowdSupply to exactly this effect, and will see what they say. -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't using GPG, you should be! https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en. Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/n

[libreplanet-discuss] EOMA68 - libre software, libre hardware, and eco-friendly too!

2016-06-29 Thread Koz Ross
*just by itself*, but the use of recycling, the eco-friendliness of the project and the *wooden* casings are just icing on an amazing cake for me. I'm just posting it to this list, as I want as many people as possible to hear about something which I believe deserves our support (and money). -- Koz

[libreplanet-discuss] How free can the snickerdoodle run?

2016-06-08 Thread Koz Ross
? b) If a), what functionality would be impeded by doing this (due to nonfree drivers or whatever)? c) If a) and b), can the Zynq 'configurable microprocessors' sitting on that thing be programmed using free tools? If anyone could let me know about these things, I would be extremely grateful. -- Koz

[libreplanet-discuss] Best Wifi chipset that runs free

2016-05-09 Thread Koz Ross
entries are quite old, I figured asking here might get better responses. -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't using GPG, you should be! https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en. Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/phil

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] FPGA free software toolchain

2016-04-11 Thread Koz Ross
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Arun, you may find this interesting: http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/ . The tl;dr version is that this has reverse-engineered some FPGAs, but they're pretty weedy. - -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't

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

2016-02-05 Thread Koz Ross
h were free, and it's possible that this approach could actually get us a free equivalent much more efficiently than a reimplementation. - -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't using GPG, you should be! https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en. *** Please don't s

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

2016-02-05 Thread Koz Ross
> Erik makes a very valid point actually - just throwing money at the initial freeing effort might get us free code, but it won't be *useful* free code unless we can either keep chucking money at it to keep it maintainer, or unless someone actually wants to maintain it (and loves it enough to d

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Reverse Engineering

2016-02-05 Thread Koz Ross
important to understand what *can* and *can't* be helped - and this particular thing *can't* be helped. - -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't using GPG, you should be! https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en. *** Please don't send me Word or Powe

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Updating the High Priority List

2016-02-04 Thread Koz Ross
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Free software drivers for 3D support, especially on SoCs. To be honest though, all of the free software 3D drivers right now could use more help to get more working. - -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you

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

2016-02-03 Thread Koz Ross
rry about as much (since the *C* standard is technically nonfree, but I don't see anyone in our community calling for us to stop using it). - -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't using GPG, you should be! https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en. *** Pleas

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] libreplanet-discuss Digest, Vol 72, Issue 8

2016-02-03 Thread Koz Ross
ng to make here. English is not, and indeed, has never been, a *programming* language. - -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't using GPG, you should be! https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en. *** Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://w

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

2016-02-03 Thread Koz Ross
. Something like an awesome-languages list? What I mean by this is something similar to https://notabug.org/koz.ross/awesome-c or https://notabug.org/koz.ross/awesome-gamedev. Disclaimer: I maintain both. - -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't usi

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

2016-02-03 Thread Koz Ross
behind the mainline in terms of features and are basically ignored by the entire Dlang toolchain, both from the community that makes said tools and the communities that support them (for example, Flycheck has syntax checking *only* via dmd, the proprietary compiler). - -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@re

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

2016-02-03 Thread Koz Ross
though, I'd rather not maintain it myself - keeping track of both of these and my PhD simultaneously is challenging enough as it is! - -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't using GPG, you should be! https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en. *** Please don't se

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

2015-12-05 Thread Koz Ross
suggestions. - -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't using GPG, you should be! https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en. *** Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html for why. *** Proud

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Freedom respecting SBC?

2015-12-05 Thread Koz Ross
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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] applying the GPL to some clojure code

2015-12-03 Thread Koz Ross
as everything in Clojure (thanks to Java) is statically-linked. As you'd be linking EPL code into GPL code, no exception will save you. I've investigated this issue before, and have asked several people, all of whom have given me this answer. - -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz&g

[libreplanet-discuss] Best e-reader for free software compatibility

2015-11-30 Thread Koz Ross
in this regard? -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't using GPG, you should be! https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en. *** Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html for why. *** Proud member of th

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Who should gain control on your speech after your own die ?

2015-11-13 Thread Koz Ross
RMS, I believe they mean this RDF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't using GPG, you should be! https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en. *** Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachment

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Want to publish an ebook under the GPL - what is a good, site to publish on? (Jim Garrett)

2015-11-07 Thread Koz Ross
Thanks Ioannis, that list was *exactly* what I was looking for! -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't using GPG, you should be! https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en. *** Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/phil

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Crowdsourced programming pun

2015-10-20 Thread Koz Ross
, which I'd be happy to link to as proof of my skills. -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't using GPG, you should be! https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en. *** Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/n

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

2015-10-17 Thread Koz Ross
So in principle, I agree that centralized services are something we should move away from, but we can't do this without offering an alternative for those who haven't the time, knowledge or inclination to self-host. -- Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't u