I agree
LibreBoot makes sense as a name, and makes it clear what it does. One
of the issues with Free (and some open source) software the name has
nothing to do with what the program does, hence people can sometimes
never remember the name of software.
Makes it more of a barrier to
On 26/12/2023 23:16, Abe Indoria wrote:
On Tue, Dec 26, 2023, 2:55 PM Yuchen Pei <[1]i...@ypei.org> wrote:
Not really. There are plenty of people with reasonable things to say
on xitter who for whatever reason stayed there.
Amusingly, when I was setting up a firefish instance
I have been using fediverse for a number of years, so maybe to address
a few points here:
1. To me, the purpose of a bot account is to usually facilitate the
sharing of say a blog post to the Fediverse services. However those
posts still need interaction.
You can follow my blog
Hi
I am not too sure if my experience counts here, but yes I agree there
are a fair number of broken links out there.
I have maintained my own website / blog for a number of years. For a
long time this ran on Wordpress, until the person who maintained the
hosting was no longer able to
One of the nice things about posting to Mastodon is the fact people
interact and comment on posts. This is a two way process.
If you sell a product or offer a service and I ask about this on
Facebook then surely someone would reply, as a Mastodon user I would
expect the same or similar
Good post, however the decision to use free software is taken by
humans,and the decision to respect or acknowledge the license is also a
human decision. So is the problem with people rather than the software.
Another problem seems to be the media, obsessed with headlines and
generating
I would agree with this yes, so if services such as ChatGPT change GPL
code it remains under the GPL and should be released accordingly.
It may be the FSF need to check with the legal department on this, and
amend the GPL licenses to suit if this needs to be explicitly stated.
I would also
I would guess Duckduckgo is much better than the main search engines
such as Google and Bing. There are several such as SearX which are more
decentralised, but can also be self hosted, which that comes with the
price tag of time, resources, cost and effort to set up and maintain.
It
On 06/11/2022 22:44, Akira Urushibata wrote:
Twitter, now owned by Elon Musk, is going through a major upheaval.
According to Musk the company is losing 4 million dollars a day.
Half of the workforce will depart in a massive layoff, raising
concerns that there may not be enough staff left to
Hi All
Thank you for this. Just to say firstly, I agree with Andrew here about
me getting things messed up. This is a good reason for this project is
to also help challenge areas were people don't quite understand something.
Hopefully, this project will be useful to people going forward. I
Hi
Not sure what is needed here
We already have books on LibreOffice and debian
https://books.libreoffice.org/en/
https://debian-handbook.info/download/stable/debian-handbook.pdf
So lots of books and resources are out there.
Richard Stallman has also penned books on free software.
If we
Hi
Just found this too. I have put the link below plus the text from the
website article (in full, but minus the pictures). Looks interesting
and also looks to be open design too.
Problem with small form factor is less room for all those cool stickers :)
I acknowledge copyright, but in
Hi All
Granted this article is about getting on Tik Tok, but perhaps the same
thinking could be applied to the Fediverse. Some of us here are already
on there. As the article states this world changes, and changes fast.
So perhaps our building up our presence on the fedi is not a bad thing.
In the UK there is
Portfast: https://portfast.net/
Are you going to perhaps list a few solutions by region e,g North
American, South America, Europe, Asia, Afruca, Eurasia / Europe,
Australasia.?
Paul
On 20/05/2022 01:42, andrew via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
I am looking for a domain
On 15/05/2022 17:57, andrew via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
I have been recently accepted into a good high school in Shanghai.
They're one of the best international schools in my opinion, and are
generally welcoming to new ideas. I would like to take this oppurtunity
to spread the ideas of the
May 3, 2022, at 17:02, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
wrote:
On 02/05/2022 22:42, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
Just like the 'Occupy Wall St.', can we have continuous digital
assemblies where ideas can be discussed all the time (people have
different schedules and live in various tim
On 02/05/2022 22:42, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
Just like the 'Occupy Wall St.', can we have continuous digital
assemblies where ideas can be discussed all the time (people have
different schedules and live in various timezones anyway) for the
digital transformation we are seeking?
On 01/05/2022 23:23, Thomas Lord wrote:
You sparked what I think is a really good idea in my head.
Of course, I can't judge if it really is a really good idea. :-)
I think/guess many people discover that twitter is a fun
and informative way to track some subject of interest.
Four examples:
On 01/05/2022 22:08, Kaio Duarte Costa wrote:
Since a few weeks ago, I've been dealing with the annoyance of the
Mobile Services Manager (the famous DT Ignite, with a "nicer" name),
which practically forces android device users to install proprietary
applications, with abusive advertisements,
On 26/04/2022 20:38, Adrienne G. Thompson wrote:
Hi Thomas:
If the FSF is not now going very hard on promoting Mastadon,
they should never be trusted to anything right again.
Why take such a negative approach? Why not, instead, propose a campaign
to promote Mastodon?
On 01/03/2022 20:32, Greg Farough wrote:
Hi, all,
We have some news to share, which is that Zoë Kooyman has been
appointed our new executive director. I hope that you'll all join me
in welcoming her, and in thanking John S. for so many years with us.
:)
I get the same impression, the 4 freedoms are universal, we just
provide the software, it is up to the end user how they use it.
Paul
My comment is simply that by *MY* understanding of the GPL (and similar
licenses) is that there is nothing in the terms that would ALLOW any efforts to
Hi
Good question.
Watching the BBC news, I get the impression, that while the regime is
behind the invasion, the army follow orders. Many ordinary Russians DO
NOT want this war. In addition there are probably many activists in
Russia, who are against Putin and who may rely on free
On 03/02/2022 04:19, Richard Stallman wrote:
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
> > > > Are you using
On 29/01/2022 15:09, Jacob Hrbek wrote:
> It is nice that that exists -- but I am not going to make my own LED
bulbs. I don't have the know-how or the time. -- RMS
> So I buy commercially made LED bulbs in a store. Their designs are
not free, but I don't see that as an issue _for this kind
On 27/01/2022 08:33, Adrien Bourmault via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
Le 27 janvier 2022 05:13:09 GMT+01:00, Richard Stallman a écrit :
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or
On 27/01/2022 04:13, Richard Stallman wrote:
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
On 26/01/2022 03:39, Richard Stallman wrote:
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
> Then let me be clear. By "free
On 24/01/2022 19:47, Matt Ivie wrote:
On Mon, 2022-01-24 at 08:23 +, Leah Rowe via libreplanet-discuss
wrote:
Hi,
I really can't hold my tongue any longer.
On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 23:33:57 -0500
Richard Stallman wrote:
RYF deserves its name. It checks for the freedom that users of the
-- Snip--
All of this leads me to a conclusion:
We should no longer call it the Free Software movement. No, we need a
new term instead that combines both hardware and software. We need
robust ideological leadership that is currently lacking from the FSF,
when taking hardware into account.
On 21/01/2022 01:05, Arthur Torrey wrote:
An excellent post by Paul Fernhout, but I see one really HUGE problem, namely
that I don't know of ANY Free Software tool or tool-chain that can get a person
from 'beer-mat' to 'g-code' (For those not familiar with the CNC world, g-code
is the
On 10/01/2022 17:02, Andrew Yu via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
Hi, friends at Libreplanet.
During a discussion in #fsf, we were quite critical of modern society,
especially on copyright, patents, "intellectual property", healthcare
and Capitalism. A (possibly sarcastic of modern society)
Hi, All
Sorry for the cross post here.
Not sure if anyone has seen this but it seems significant, esp as the
fsf is based in MA, which I am guessing is a neighbouring state to NH.
On 07/01/2022 04:21, Richard Stallman wrote:
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
It sounds like game jams have value
this is somewhat useful.
Roberto
On 6 Jan 2022 18:20, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
wrote:
Hi all
Following on from the thread
LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!
I think the general consensus is, that this is a good idea. The
question is, how do
Hi all
Following on from the thread
LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!
I think the general consensus is, that this is a good idea. The
question is, how do we pull this off.
Firstly I appreciate the tech team are busy :)
I would suggest putting together some
On 05/01/2022 19:48, Dennis Payne wrote:
On Wed, 2022-01-05 at 16:10 +0100, Ismael Luceno wrote:
Making it attractive would mean the prizes and frequency of the
contests
need to yield an average much higher than what would be possible by
selling
the game, which sounds unrealistic to me.
A
On 05/01/2022 05:06, Michael McMahon wrote:
In my response I wrote, "The purpose of a jam is education,
socialization, and friendly competition while gaining functional
experience through creating something in an area that they are
interested in."
From what I gathered, most game jams
On 01/01/2022 12:01, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
Hi
Following on from the suggestion of a Libre Game Jam, there is an event
coming up
https://globalgamejam.org/
This appears to be along similar lines to what was suggested, so may be
good for some ideas.
Paul
Quick reply
On 01/01/2022 04:47, Richard Stallman wrote:
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
> Wouldn't packaging for
On 30/12/2021 08:34, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
Hello!
I was just casually glancing through my email inbox and this caught my
attention!
Recently, I have become convinced that a viable way to start a new
collaborative society is through community efforts in having fun, developing
our own video
Hi
I am trying to write a short article about LibreOffice,
According to the https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/licenses page it
is Free Software, (links to
https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software) however that pages
makes more reference to the Mozilla Public License.
Is this
On 29/11/2021 22:00, Yuchen Pei wrote:
Arthur Torrey writes:
I never intended that we should promote non-free software / hardware
on this Libre-planet list, only that we should be tolerant about it on
whatever federation structures evolve.
How does such tolerance help the free software
On 23/11/2021 21:05, Dennis Payne wrote:
On Tue, 2021-11-23 at 18:02 +, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
wrote:
Hi
I think this may be it
https://stallman.org/cgi-bin/showpage.cgi?path=/articles/encyclopedia.html=encyclopedia=norm=0
From https://stallman.org
I can't help but feel
On 22/11/2021 21:49, Yuchen Pei wrote:
jahoti via libreplanet-discuss
writes:
On 11/16/21 7:45 PM, Dennis Payne wrote:
I don't see how a federated wikipedia would work. Even if you banned
obvious trolls, how would you deal with contentious issues? Federation
isn't some magical
On 13/11/2021 14:29, Leah Rowe via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
What if there was a combined Free Software, OSHW and Right to Repair
group, providing ideological leadership in a peer to peer fashion via
federated services (including Git-based code hosting) and an emphasis
on
On 14/11/2021 20:27, Thomas Lord wrote:
I think the FSF should have gone in this direction a long
time ago.
I think it is a very good idea to add to what you described:
a. Distributed decentralized business models that are NOT
"getting paid to program" or "getting paid to contribute
On 14/11/2021 17:04, Leah Rowe via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
On 13/11/2021 14:29, Leah Rowe via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
What if there was a combined Free Software, OSHW and Right to Repair
group, providing ideological leadership in a peer to peer fashion via
federated services
On 26/10/2021 02:22, jahoti via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
On 10/25/21 2:31 PM, Greg Farough wrote:
On Mon, Oct 25 2021, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
wrote:
Could the fsf not perhaps adapt the tool to work alongside freedom
ladder?
I think that's a good idea, as the current FSDG
On 25/10/2021 05:03, Jean Louis wrote:
* Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
[2021-10-24 20:28]:
Hi All
I just found this on Mastodon, a really useful tool to help people find a
good linux distribution based on their needs.
https://distrochooser.de/
I don't agree it is even relevant
Hi All
I just found this on Mastodon, a really useful tool to help people find
a good linux distribution based on their needs.
https://distrochooser.de/
Paul
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On 05/08/2021 00:30, Jorge P. de Morais Neto via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
Hi. Sometime ago I submit to a proprietary instant messenger for a work
chat room. I want to get rid of it ASAP.
As I had it installed and active on my smartphone (for the work room), I
ended up joining three other
On 13/07/2021 08:18, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Il 13/07/21 00:37, Yasuaki Kudo ha scritto:
In a worker cooperative, there is one-person-one-vote democracy. So I
cannot just dictate that the Software Licensing we use will be GPL.
You can if you put it in the articles of incorporation or
On 11/07/2021 00:44, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
This is a thought experiment:
Would you or FSF support the idea of abolishing the concept of intellectual
property altogether, making any form of 'Software Licensing', including GPL,
null and void. Gone also will be any form of Patents and
On 08/07/2021 21:24, Greg Farough wrote:
Hi, everyone,
You might have seen this already, but we're looking for community
participation[1] on a new guide of ours called the "freedom ladder,"
which we hope will allow people unfamiliar with free software to take
their first steps into the
On 26/06/2021 08:04, Jean Louis wrote:
* Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
[2021-06-26 10:02]:
In the mean time,
https://test.bigbluebutton.org/
is a useful link to allow people to try out Big Blue Button, lets promote
the alternatives, of course there is also jit.si but BBB
Hi All
I found something interesting in a BBC news article with regard to MS
teams and Windows 11.
It seems that Teams will be even more integrated in to the next release
of windows. I am not a legal expert. However this could once again
prove to be a monopoly grab for MS and just
On 25/06/2021 02:10, quil...@riseup.net wrote:
I was notified by the Hyperbola GNU developers that Latex will be
removed. There is a freedom bug report on:
https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/972
Would this issue affect other FSF approved distros?
___
On 06/05/2021 08:34, Jean Louis wrote:
"text spreadsheet" calculator using awk, tsort and bc/calc that allows
me to mark up the calculations on the forms and then compute the
dependencies, generate calculations and generate the results as an
output text file.
We are s late with speech
On 06/05/2021 07:11, Greg Knittl wrote:
Hi Ali,
I'm sighted and have plenty of trouble interacting with the world
through my computer. I can't imagine how I would manage to even get as
far as going through all the steps to convert pdfs to text if I were
blind. My hat is off to you.
As a
On 29/04/2021 18:06, Greg Knittl wrote:
Hi Lars,
The various GNU licences rely on copyright. I'm not sure if this is just
trying to make the best of a bad situation by hacking copyright into
it's opposite or whether belief in copyright is intrinsic to Software
Freedom.
Whatever the
On 13/04/2021 06:57, Jean Louis wrote:
Can you easily sue people who are backed by multi billion dollar
companies, or more to the point sue and win.
Of course it is possible. And need not cost much.
But it is not about large companies, there are just few individual
accusers. Additionally
On 12/04/2021 19:17, Jean Louis wrote:
* Adrienne G. Thompson [2021-04-12 20:34]:
As the lies are still being told and not-at-all-proven accusations
go
on, I thought it's good to mention the
[1]https://stallmansupport.org site.
It has a link to the support
On 09/04/2021 12:39, Jean Louis wrote:
* Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
[2021-04-09 14:08]:
Hi All
In an effort to try and recruit and importantly help find more developers at
all levels I am trying to reach out to people locally.
I think what is needed here, is a clearly laid out
Hi All
In an effort to try and recruit and importantly help find more
developers at all levels I am trying to reach out to people locally.
I think what is needed here, is a clearly laid out pathway in to free
software contribution using free software tools.
So for example, a project needs
be conscious of the impacts and costs of our choices, but we
should also not sacrifice our effectiveness as a movement.
In harmony,
Aaron Wolf
On 2021-04-04 12:33 a.m., Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
On 04/04/2021 03:54, Thomas Lord wrote:
Good programmers inevitably learn
On 04/04/2021 03:54, Thomas Lord wrote:
Good programmers inevitably learn, somewhere along the way, the
following lesson:
When you encounter a very hard problem to solve, don't spend all
your time just on the problem. Also question whether it really
needs to be
On 31/03/2021 22:16, Matt Ivie wrote:
On Sat, 2021-03-27 at 12:06 +, Robbt wrote:
I just hope that everyone can try to have some empathy for each other
and remember that those of us here are on the same side in our desire
for increasing software freedom and empowering people to have
On 30/03/2021 04:23, quil...@riseup.net wrote:
Jean Louis writes:
* quiliro [2021-03-29 18:48]:
* A policy where you are innocent of a crime till proven guilty, this
protects both victims and the accused. Investigations should aim to
reach the facts of what happened,
I did not write
On 27/03/2021 19:59, quiliro wrote:
Thomas Lord writes:
"What we need to do, is have very robust standards of how people
behave, drawn up by and for the community,"
The only "problem" you seem to have a solution for is the one of a few
people making fairly ridiculous accusations and
On 27/03/2021 12:06, Robbt wrote:
I am definitely trying to stake a middle ground here and that seems like a
losing position. I read the GitHub statement that many have signed on to and I
did feel like it overly harsh in it's treatment of RMS. For instance suggesting
he has a dangerous
On 26/03/2021 18:25, Thomas Lord wrote:
No "path forward" is needed in reaction to people repeating the same
accusations that don't stand up to scrutiny.
Where we need paths forward is in strategic and tactical decisions
about what free software to try to bring into existence,
On 26/03/2021 15:54, Aaron Wolf wrote:
I really appreciate seeing the perspective from Georgia. Thanks also
deeply to Deb Nicholson for engaging here in this space. Obviously,
these negative reports about RMS being presented *here* amounts to the
opposite of an echo-chamber. These voices are
On 26/03/2021 14:03, Ali Reza Hayati wrote:
On 26/03/2021 18:19, Deb Nicholson wrote:
An interesting thing about men who harass women is that they usually
don't do it to men. Men who let the community know that they "don't
believe in harassment" are the last people to find out it's
On 19/02/2021 02:16, quiliro wrote:
Dear Libre Planet:
I have just been elected president of the Free Software Asociation of
Ecuador.
I would like to receive suggestions for making a successful advocacy for
freedom during the following 2 years which I will be in office and for
making a
Hi
Does anyone know if the jitsi mailing list page works properly ?
A duckduckgo.com sends me here
https://desktop.jitsi.org/Development/MailingLists
However trying to click the link, to the users' mailing list seems to
not do anything for a while. then comes up with
Error 522 Ray ID:
On 16/01/2021 10:14, quiliro wrote:
"Paul D. Fernhout" writes:
Hi Greg,
Thanks for making this video. It makes an important point about risk and
proprietary software in a persuasive way.
As mentioned previously (2020-08-08) I did not like the last 30 seconds
of "The University of Costumed
Hi Don
On 16/12/2020 23:26, Don Saklad wrote:
How do you advocate a City agency use libre software?
For example at
https://www.cambridgema.gov/DHSP/programsforadults/seniorscouncilonaging
Further to my previous response I, along with Noisytoot (Ron) and a few
others are working on
Hi
Just seen this posted to Mastodon,
Solarus game engine
A lightweight, free and open-source game engine for Action-RPGs
As it is under gpl3, so should be suitable for the Free Software Directory
https://www.solarus-games.org/
Hope this helps
Regards
Paul Sutton
--
Paul Sutton,
On 19/12/2020 09:02, Paul Sutton wrote:
On 16/12/2020 23:26, Don Saklad wrote:
How do you advocate a City agency use libre software?
For example at
https://www.cambridgema.gov/DHSP/programsforadults/seniorscouncilonaging
I'll start looking at video conferencing
Switching from zoom to
On 16/12/2020 23:26, Don Saklad wrote:
How do you advocate a City agency use libre software?
For example at
https://www.cambridgema.gov/DHSP/programsforadults/seniorscouncilonaging
I'll start looking at video conferencing
Switching from zoom to say big blue button, should not be
On 16/12/2020 20:23, Adonay Felipe Nogueira via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
The user Stanisława Pałętka, which is apparently subscribed to this list.
Attached is a reply from per, citing my message, but with no reply content.
I have had the same, very odd as it fails to add anything to the
Hi Jean
It is work in progress and designed just to introduce 4 freedoms and the
licenses mentioned on the fsf website.
It is creative commons and is on gitlab so can be downloaded and
expanded or key points can be expanded on.
Paul
On 16/12/2020 18:13, Jean Louis wrote:
* Paul Sutton
://www.archive.org/)
And if you can upload the "source" of your videos that would be even
better! :D
On 09/12/2020, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
wrote:
On 09/12/2020 03:53, msunet wrote:
Do you have that iso available somewhere that you can share? I'd be
curious to check it out.
/)
And if you can upload the "source" of your videos that would be even
better! :D
On 09/12/2020, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
wrote:
On 09/12/2020 03:53, msunet wrote:
Do you have that iso available somewhere that you can share? I'd be
curious to check it out.
Hi
Happy to share j
ld
indeed :)
On December 7, 2020 10:36:30 AM PST, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
wrote:
On 06/12/2020 22:59, Marc Sunet wrote:
https://instituteforpubliceducation.org/monopoly-technology-platforms-are-colonizing-education/
<https://instituteforpubliceducation
Hi
Not sure if this is useful, but using the same format as my Mastodon
Presentation,
https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/mastodonpresentation - included for
reference.
I have now made a short presentation to help explain about free software
licenses from the information on the FSF and
to promote the project and ask for
donations. Signing up on a platform won't get that much attention in itself.
Hi Aaron
Thanks for this, I am more confident at looking further in to this now.
Regards
Paul Sutton
On 2020-12-03 12:48 p.m., Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
Hi
Sorry
Hi
Sorry if this is off topic, I decided to ask about this here as the gnu
community list seems quite and I wasn't really sure where else to ask.
I am producing video / screenshots for Libreoffice to help the docs team
(these resources may also help other projects too), I am looking at
On 21/11/2020 14:51, quiliro wrote:
"Empowering computer users in these times when freedom is at risk
requires tools such as those which will be presented at LibrePlanet
2020.
Hi Quiliro
Thanks for this, I will make the changes and re-submit as it is not
going to go in till 2021.
Regards
Hi all
I am looking at submitting a short (needs to be about 330 words) article
to a local community publication in Torbay, Devon.
I can't find the exact dates for LP 2021 but so far have come up with
the following,
It may not get big reach, but it is publicity, at least.
How does the
On 28/10/2020 22:48, mray wrote:
Hi all,
Short design related intermission:
I'm letting you know that there is now a Free Software Logo ready to use
for everybody wanting to have a sign that says "Free Software":
https://free-software-logo.codeberg.page/
…no need to let "Open Source" take
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