Adapting existing free software projects is not that common as a business.
And you are right: the actual developers of the project are the first (and
sometimes the only) ones to make money in this way or by implementing desired
new features.
I believe more common (small) businesses do
I only report what was announced. I am not really sure we should believe it
either.
Most of the hardware in the Neo Freerunner is open, so companies could simply
buy the hardware from Openmoko and fix the hardware problems themselves
without needing to rely on Openmoko. Anyway, I never had any problems making
or receiving calls when using the latest Openmoko distribution
Well, the assertion people get motivated by money is questionable. I
remember a psychology paper showing that children draw significantly better
if they are not promised candies to do so (the generalization to any work and
any reward is questionable too).
Anyway, I believe nobody would
RMS certainly is an intelligent man and a prophet.
Yet, I understand how a programmer would take issue with his philosophy.
Learning how to program isn't something that a person can't do easily. Just
look at the job listings for programmers and all the languages and software
one needs
Hello, can someone explain to me why a libre tablet would have to have
fundamentally different hardware specs (beside the touch screen), than a SSD
netbook ?
I'm just pouring gas on fire here but bare with me...
t3g, you wrote I support GNU, free software, and Trisquel 100%. and used
similar words on free software in other messages.
Now, can you explain yourself as in what part of the free software or GNU
do you support 100% ?
Because, you
I don't think there's a standard when it comes to installing the different
desktop environments. In general, you should quickly check what packages
start with the name of the desktop environment you want, and from there
you'll determine which are the meta packages you need to install.
You
RMS' issue with cellular telephones goes well beyond the issue of software
freedom. Using a cell phone (smart or not) also invites the invasion of one's
privacy by the cellular service company as well as the government. My
impression from his writings is that he wouldn't use one even if the
With hinting set to Slight, the Droid fonts look worser to me. Here is a
comparison I made:
DejaVu Sans, Size 9, Full Hinting
Droid Sans, Size 10, Full Hinting
Droid Sans, Size 10, Slight Hinting
The DejaVu fonts definitely look better to me, although its hard see or
explain why
I think it's largely a personal choice. BTW I'm currently using PT Sans
Caption and I find it to be much better than Droid and Deja Vu.
I was trying to encompass everything from a Drupal customisation
(https://drupal.org/drupal-services) where there are plenty of 3rd party
providers. Through custom database programs as tailored by the original
developers, the sort of thing that are hidden behind point of sale terminals
or
I believe the simplest and most effective way to contact quidam (Trisquel's
leader who is the main, if not only, developer as well) is to connect to the
#trisquel IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Take a look at this great manual
(kudos to AndrewT and SirGrant!).
The disturbance now is slower, but I've tried all your tips and nothing has
changed...
Talking about a replacement of SAP, OpenERP is doing great in France (at
least until I left it for Brazil).
There are many ways to ethically make money from software and this thriving
momentum for free software businesses cannot be denied anymore. However that
is a weaker argument in favor
What package provides this font, if it's in the repositories?
The biggest argument against gaming here seems to miss the entire point.
ID Software has created the Free Software Gaming Model. Really, it's the
only one I've ever seen be successful (by my standards anyway.)
What most people don't realize is that the art content of the game does not
I do not know where you are from but employers ask the same in France: they
pretend a developer should know every programming language and everything
from hardware to applications... but you don't! I am a assistant professor in
computer science and I always tell the students that a good
Thanks for the info. The white book has already been translated to English
here:
http://www.april.org/files/economic-models_en.pdf
It is now on my to read pile.
Thanks again.
People do get motivated by money. Take a look at Trisquel asking people for
money with its membership plans that pretty much say Ruben needs money to
keep this project going. If Ruben were to make the same if not more money
from monthly donations for Trisquel than his real job, then he would
Yeah, but ID is the exception to the rule. I really doubt that the big
publishers like Activision, EA, Nintendo, Sony, and Ubisoft are ever going to
release their game source code. Even if they remove all of the art, they will
be scared about their code being on the net. There were big legal
pt sans isn't in the repo. I downloaded it from google webfonts svn :D
you can download all google webfonts at
https://s3.amazonaws.com/joemaller_google_webfonts/googlewebfonts.tgz
P.S. pt sans is under the SIL open font license
open alsamixer and try reducing mic boost :)
But ID also licenses their engines. That's step number five on the list I
made for you.
It looks like Unreal Engine is on version 3. As such, why isn't version 2
under the GNU GPL? Or version 1?
Tell me, how many new games out there are being released on Unreal Engine
versions 1 and
I see a difference between needing money and getting motivated by money.
If Ruben was motivated by money I believe he would not have started Trisquel
in the first place. The probability he will make more money with Trisquel
than with another job exploiting his technical skills is very low.
Many a mickle makes a muckle would seem to be the way to go. If free
software can't assemble the resources to compete with games that have $Ms
budget can it instead create the next Angry Birds? i.e. a
Replicant/Cyanogen/Android game.
You are having an interesting conversation. I am not much of a specialist
when it comes to games (although I enjoy simple 2D games such as Hedgewars,
SolarWolf, FrozenBubble, puzzles, etc.).
I guess you are aware of Flattr and of the idea of turning it (well, not
Flattr itself but a
The difference between giving money to a company compared to donations is
that when you pay a company, you know what you are getting the majority of
the time. You go to the store and buy a tablet with certain specifications
because that is what your money is exactly going towards. Same with
Oh btw, Bryan from the Linux Action Show gave some thoughts about his
conversation with Stallman: http://lunduke.com/?p=2273
Actually Ruben is living off his savings in the hope we'll be able to raise
the money to pay him a Spanish minimum wage and sustain the project. There's
a critical bug open because we've not hit last year's target for members.
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/4528
Given you're 100% behind
I'll keep the donation in mind when I get some more cash later on. Due to the
conversion rates, I will have to pay $80 and would have to be on behalf of
the company I use for contract work. That should be ok right?
I just installed trisquel_5.5-20120317_i686 to Virtualbox 4.1.10 , (16
GB HD,) using the (F4) OEM install.
Installed sweets-distribution :
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Sweets_Distribution#Ubuntu_and_its_derivates
Clicked on prepare oem icon on desktop to add
So distorted from what rms really said...
tegskywal...@hotmail.com wrote:
I'll keep the donation in mind when I get some more cash later on. Due
to the
conversion rates, I will have to pay $80 and would have to be on behalf
of
the company I use for contract work. That should be ok right?
The only automatic method of paying for membership that exists currently is
monthly by Paypal, using
https://trisquel.info/en/member
You would set the per month fee to the minimum 5 € on that page.
One off donations can be made using this page:
https://trisquel.info/en/donate
There it
IOW you support free software only when you can use it to build proprietary
software?
Yeah... there's plenty of businesses and NPO's founded exactly on that idea.
That's why we have no shortage whatsoever of revolutionary new web
frameworks and javascript libraries. There are plenty of
So reading between the lines RMS said nothing more than he has done before.
Being gutter journalists and proprietary software programmers they cook up a
story based on perceptions that were current a decade ago and have long been
demonstrably false. There's no news in it. What is your
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