Hi all,
My name is Simon and i am from Austria.
I am new to this list and Trisquel.
I used Linux before in other distributions like Ubuntu and Debian.
As a blind user I tested the Trisquel 5.5 I18N daily snapshot DVD from
17 March 2012 on a VirtualBox virtual machine.
I thought i might not a
If your client gets pissed off by your licensing policy, that doesn't mean
free software is some kind of bullshit that is not reality-based. It just
means your client has false preferences. In theory, it would not be bad for
anyone if the JavaScript you write for a webpage is licensed under t
Yeah but don't you work in academia and your perspective is a little bit
different? You get paid no matter what to teach something and that paycheck
is always there as long as you remain employed with the company. In your line
of work you are encouraged to share ideas and teach students withi
I was just looking at it this weekend. At the moment, I have an office
program I am using called Feng Office, and there is a GPL'd community
version. The main differences as best as I can tell are no billing options
and easy backup and update buttons and other similar limitations since it is
Additionally a web designer such as myself could continue to work using only
Free and Open Source software.
The glitch is when we work for employers who institutionally use closed
source software. I've been politely pushing to replace our current website
updating method towards WordPress w
Thanks aloniv,
I've been converting my files to Ogg Vorbis audio and video formats anyway
which removes any need for silly licenses.
Of course you can earn enough money to feed a family. Many people do right
now. We have already discussed it in this same thread. Please read this
message and the subsequent ones.
Thanks icarolongo.
that was exactly what I was looking for.
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Does the AMD Radeon HD 6310 Graphics (used in Cork 13.3" AMD E-350t) support
3D acceleration in Trisquel?
what if the JavaScript from the start isn't intended to be absorbed by a
community, modified, and redistributed?
Even if it is not "intended to", it should be free otherwise it is not
ethical.
Nobody tells you to not respect the contract and be sued. We tell you to not
accept the contract a
The decoders are free software but they are patent encumbered (i.e. you need
a patent license to playback the file in some parts of the world).
See my comment at 22:10 below
See: FFmpeg: Legal status of codecs (Wikipedia)
Trisquel is from Spain and GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in (Wikipedia) is free
software.
Magic Banana, it seems you are describing an I.T. worker setting up a
computer and configuring free software applications for a client to use. I
agree that free software provides work for I.T. staff, and that the developer
could also make money by training people to use the software, writing
Well some projects willingly want you to contribute back like jQuery becuase
they are either community based or foundation based. The reality of that is
they want you to do the free work for them improving and modifying their
script so they don't have to pay people to do it. They make it clea
I agree with Magic Banana's point on the ethics. But let's look at the
reality of how the ethics pan out in your situation from a different angle.
There is nothing you or your customer can reasonably do to stop someone
cloning a successful feature on a webpage. As long as they don't copy th
Exaile? Hi,
Is it possible to play Shoutcast-style streams (.pls) with exaile? When
I put one of these links into the 'station link' field, there is a
"requires plugins for dynamic play lists' message, and nothing in either
the 'saved stations' or 'radio streams' lists? The result of a searc
Who runs the JavaScript you wrote? The visitors of the website (through their
web browsers). They are the users. In rms' opinion (and mine, and that most
of Trisquel's users I guess), the visitor therefore deserves the four
freedoms defining a free software. Among them, the freedom to take pa
:D It was just today that I found out about them from the gnu.org page. They
do seem quite cool in fact! Would be awesome if they would donate some small
part of their sells with Trisquel pre-installed to this project.
The problem is the following: there is only one company that makes videocards
that run with fully free drivers. It is ironically Intel. For example the
x3000 and x4500 have free drivers and do not require binary blobs in the
kernel.
However, the motherboards that use those videocards run on
I would say that some people here (and in many other places) have a mentality
of "divide and conquer". They insert themselves into these forums and keep
stating that they support this and that, but they show otherwise as time goes
by, and they keep fuelling useless and redundant discussions.
Some confirmation from Chris would be nice if he only supports coreboot
systems.
There is also the aspect of doing stuff on the web where the JavaScript code
is viewable by anyone who does a View Source and the PHP code is hidden due
to it being executed on the server. The software that RMS keeps referencing
is actual software that I make for a client. His views don't rea
What you do not understand is that distributing software under a free license
is *not* abandoning one's copyright. For instance you do not have your name,
after a (c), on the software Trisquel distributes to you. And neither does
Trisquel. The author have the copyright.
The contract you tal
Here's my problem:
Say you do a custom web application for a company and when you sign the
contracts, that company, as part of their contract, says that all entities of
the site belong to them. Its like any other job where you work for someone
and they own the work you produce and you canno
And, of course, ThinkPenguin sells "free" computers.
Where have you read that?! Developing an application from scratch is very
uncommon nowadays. Here is what I wrote:
some company or institution (or whatever) needs an application to fill a
specific needs or, *more frequently, needs to configure/adapt existing
applications so that they accommod
So you recommend building an application or web script from scratch every
time you have a client instead of simply building it once and licencing it
with minor changes? How does that benefit the additional work for the
developer?
Thanks for the info. I tried, but he wasn't in. I will try again today.
What don't you understand about custom software: some company or institution
(or whatever) needs an application to fill a specific needs or, more
frequently, needs to configure/adapt existing applications so that they
accommodate these needs. Either it contracts developers to achieve the job
When donating to a long-term project (such as Trisquel, the FSF, Wikipedia,
etc.), you can consider that your donation rewards the past achievements you
have freely benefited from. In this way you even better know what you pay for
than the tablet-purchase example. ;-)
While the ogg downloads...
My most recent understanding of the FSF position wrt the Apple App Store was
that yes Apple had stopped specifically excluding copyleft software.
However, the aggregate of their other conditions, namely that developers have
to agree to exclusively distribute the
I've tried but nothing
I actually took the time to watch the video (in OGG Theora). I think the
interviewers were really bad, and Stallman was for the most part quite good.
I do think though that Stallman didn't explain well enough how to earn a
living developing custom software, and some of his claims were inaccur
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