On Mon, Dec 23, 2002, Amir Tal wrote about questions for RMS:
we are preparing a list of questions that will be used in an interview we are
interested in conducting with RMS in his upcoming visit.
the chosen questions (and the answers, of course) will be translated and
posted as an article
Quoting Omer Zak, from the post of Tue, 24 Dec:
Currently, the FSF has title to lots of GPLed software and encourages
independent developers of GPLed software to assign title to it, because it
has the resources to defend the copyright in court, if necessary.
it also reserves the right to
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Ira Abramov wrote:
2. What if someday the people controlling FSF release Version 5 of the
GPL, which says that they (FSF) alone are allowed the rights; and other
people have to pay royalties (e.g. to pay for court costs incurred by
the need to defend GPL).
hey cool, an actual ON TOPIC thread on linux-il, I'm so excited :)
Quoting Alon Altman, from the post of Tue, 24 Dec:
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Ira Abramov wrote:
2. What if someday the people controlling FSF release Version 5 of the
GPL, which says that they (FSF) alone are allowed the
the RMS visit is getting closer and closer.
As well, it appears, as the war in Iraq. I just hope the whole event
won't be canceled.
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On Monday 23 December 2002 10:49, Dvir Volk wrote:
the RMS visit is getting closer and closer.
RMS does not strike me as the kind of guy that will postpone a visit over
something silly like a little war... did you read this guy's political
doc's??
:)
tal.
As well, it appears, as the war
Unless he's willing to swim here, if you believe the newspapers and
remember the previous war, commercial flights will cease in case some
objects start flying in unauthorized vertical paths.
:-)
Practical suggestion - let's just plan as if everything is going to be
ok and at worst the plans will
On Monday 23 December 2002 14:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
we are fully intended to do just that ;)
tal.
Unless he's willing to swim here, if you believe the newspapers and
remember the previous war, commercial flights will cease in case some
objects start flying in unauthorized vertical
Quoting Amir Tal, from the post of Mon, 23 Dec:
we are preparing a list of questions that will be used in an interview
we are interested in conducting with RMS in his upcoming visit.
I see many questions here about Linux and not GNU. don't piss the guy
off for no reason. RMS has made public his
furthermore, I don't think IBM's laptop modems are any of his concern
either. IBM has dropped support and pre-installation of Linux on
workstations and laptop and are only selling it on server platforms.
sad, but true. if they officially don't support it, you can't complain
about their
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: questions for RMS:
* Sometimes, in order to be able to finish modifying software for which
you have the source code, you need to be able to prove that your
modification has no unintended consequences. Therefore you need access
Currently, the FSF has title to lots of GPLed software and encourages
independent developers of GPLed software to assign title to it, because it
has the resources to defend the copyright in court, if necessary.
Also, most of the GPLed software is released under Version 2 or any later
version of
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 01:02:12AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: questions for RMS:
* Sometimes, in order to be able to finish modifying software for which
you have the source code, you need to be able to prove that your
modification
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002, Amir Tal wrote about questions for RMS:
all,
we are preparing a list of questions that will be used in an interview we are
interested in conducting with RMS in his upcoming visit.
Here's a question:
You are highly regarded as a man of vision. Twenty years ago you
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 21:06, Omer Zak wrote:
the RMS visit is getting closer and closer. if you people are serious about
creating a list of questions for a translated interview, please send them to
me, and I'll add them to omer's and eli's.
tal.
Meanwhile I thought about questions
Meanwhile I thought about questions to RMS.
1. What is RMS' exact position about software which is burned into ROM and
put into an instrument/device/appliance? Should the customer have
access to the source code and to a means for replacing the software?
2. What if the ROM mentioned in (1
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 21:06, Omer Zak wrote:
OK, so far i have questions from omer and eli.
keep sending them in, and I'll create a final list of questions, and post it
here for your approval.
tal.
Meanwhile I thought about questions to RMS.
1. What is RMS' exact position about
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