On 11/17/21 1:10 AM, Arthur Torrey wrote:
A couple of points -
1. The original proposal was for an effort, presumably SEPARATE from
LibrePlanet to make alliances IN THOSE AREAS WHERE OUR INTERESTS ALIGN with
folks such as the OSHWA, and other open source hardware advocates, and the
Right to R
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 technologies that immediately makes everything
better.
For the case of contentious issues, Stal
On 10/28/21 6:12 AM, Jean Louis wrote:
* jahoti [2021-10-28 08:54]:
For practical purposes, yes; it was based on someone else's first-hand
account, the source of which I've misremembered and now cannot find.
Regardless, your first-hand experience is much more informative, relevant,
and fortu
On 10/28/21 4:13 AM, Jean Louis wrote:
* jahoti [2021-10-28 05:57]:
I would not call it "Freedom Ladder", you give me impression it is
something difficult, while I don't share that viewpoint.
True as that may be, it is important to consider that switching to a
new OS (even part-time) is a r
On 10/27/21 5:23 AM, Jean Louis wrote:
* Arthur Torrey [2021-10-26 06:51]:
IMHO given that a user starting on the Freedom Ladder probably has
hardware that was purchased for a non-free OS, pointing them at an
all-free distro is setting them up for a bad experience...
Quite contrary, giving pr
On 10/23/21 2:20 AM, Andrew Yu via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
I am a secondary school student from Shanghai, China. This email
discusses the problems I discovered in the Chinese educational system,
in terms of students' right to freedom in computing and options to
control the COVID-19 pandemic
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 distro page doesn't do
the best job of steering people toward a
On 8/20/21 1:41 AM, fischersfr...@sent.at wrote:
jahoti writes:
a good strategy might be asking what to do if you don't have a mobile
phone (or pretending you don't).
This already is my strategy, and it fails. I think the problem is
that people don't know; that is, people without mobile phones
On 8/19/21 12:56 PM, fischersfr...@sent.at wrote:
Dear jahoti,
Here are what I have tried so far.
Rite Aid runs proprietary software and requires a Google account.
I called and confirmed that this is the only way.
https://baseline.google.com/enroll/account/covid19mtch
[snip]
I asked some
That might or might not be a different situation; the potential to gain
freedom through the choice of software on a personal device is far, far
greater than what can be obtained from a traffic light control system or
kiosk.
Ibsen, what exactly are the pharmacies asking you to do when they
"re
On 7/12/21 9:37 PM, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
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. If all other
members say Proprietary is better, I would have to go along with that decision.
Arguments for Prop
On 7/12/21 8:29 PM, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
'Voluntarily' , as in this:
http://dklevine.com/papers/ip.ch.2.m1004.pdf
Meaning, I would prefer something like GPL citing the benefits described in the
link 😄
I'm still not quite sure I understand, sorry. Do you mean citing the
benefits of a preamble
On 7/12/21 12:48 PM, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
My personal preference/instinct is to go voluntarily free software, regardless
of what other companies or even cooperatives do.
What do you mean by "voluntarily free software"? Bear in mind that
almost all countries (including Japan) recognize copyri
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