I'd like to add that the logic used here would also work for justifying the
legalization of slavery. You could say, We want workers to have the freedom
to choose how they want to work, and that's why permitting people to sell
themselves into slavery is the best way. (It's not the same, mind
Actually the GPL sin't focused on total (any better words?) freedom as it
basically says Don't tell the world that it's your writing since it wasn't,
and don't you dare to re-release a version of this software that is not
*free* ,
while non-copyleft lincences simply say Don't tell the world
* Enough protection is offered to be relatively sure you won't sue me if
something goes wrong when you use my code.
Using my code in proprietary software is something that goes wrong. And
something permissive licenses do not protect from (by definition).
Radeon cards work on Trisquel. But because of the proprietary firmware you
mentioned (and that remains proprietary until now), some features do not
work. That includes 3D acceleration.
If your computer has an Intel graphical chipset (the case for all Intel
processors, for many years), you
Well then why the heck do they even celebrate these drivers like a win for
GNU/Linux users? You can't even use them wihtout proprietary code! I don't
understand supposed Linux enthusiasts writers that are doing this then... I
mean if anything it'll get current Free software users to
Not quite.
Writing proprietary software is more like offering somebody to become a slave
at free will.
It's like raising the question: who wants to become my slave voluntarily?.
It's similar but not the same like enslaving people directly since they are
free to choose whether they want to
Exactly.
That's just what not valuing freedom leads to. You've got people thinking
it's fine because of where the proprietary firmware is being run, and it
doesn't help that the main distribution of the kernel Linux includes these
proprietary blobs. For example, one of the people responsible for the
Doesn't Apache 2.0 fix this?
I'm not Tom Preston-Wener, so therefore I didn't give the speech in question.
Direct your anger towards him.
GPL gives total freedom to the user, but restricted freedom to the developer.
Permissive gives total freedom to the user and developer, but then allows
other developers to change the intention of the original developer by making
proprietary or bundling it with other proprietary software.
This was only a small part of the interview. Unfortunately the choice of
words in the beginning was poor, but it wouldn't have been so bad had they
actually kept the part where I went into what free software was and how Linux
Mint, Ubuntu, etc were not totally free.
I was very conscious of
Some time ago when I did not care about freedom, I was using AMD CPUs. When I
switched to Trisquel I realized that AMD does not want users to have freedom.
AMD could easly solve the problem by burning the firmware into a ROM or
hardwiring the command processor. I think releasing the source
No, that's a permissive license. Incidentally, since this anti-GPL FUD
includes complaints that the GPL is long, it doesn't work to support the
Apache License, itself being lengthy.
Some time ago I heard that github is not Open Source, so I decided to use
gitorius insted which is copylefted free software under the AGPL. At this
time I was a Mac User but I know that if something is not open source, it is
certainly not free software. [RMS]
When I browse github, I still
Whoops, should've known better about the linking part!
Hello guys,
I have some problems blocking a facebook subdomain in /etc/hosts. I am able
to block facebook.com but I cannot block a subdomain called
ro-ro.facebook.com.
I'm typing everything as I should but it just doesn't work, it's very weird.
Did anyone met with this problem, with
Freedom 0 means that you can use the program in whatever way you want, not
that you can do whatever you want with it.
I have a Replicant tablet with PowerVR. I really hope someone reverse
engineers it.
BTW, the Raspberry Pi's GPU blob was actually freed by Broadcom. :)
https://libv.livejournal.com/26434.html
At least the ME microcode for R600 (and probably earlier CP microcode) is
simple code with separate instructions for reading or writing registers, Rob
Clark of Freedreno partially reverse engineered the instruction format.
Newer Radeons have different ISAs. (ME is microengine, CP is
So, that is why I found it strange; they have cutted the interview.
I think the other companies do not find funny what smaller competitors are
doing to counter-attack their deceitful behavior (generalization).
you where great on that interview Chris.
Thank you for your consideration t3g.
Greetings ladies and gentlemen.
I've been doing research about File Systems and I want to ask what File
System type have, the Thinkpenguin's Storage Devices, by default.
Thank you.
You can always reformat them, so it shouldn't really matter.
Thank you for answer, but that was not what I was asking.
I know I can always reformat the device, but I want to know the defaults from
Thinkpenguin in order to have a reference for my learning.
Hello Trisquel GNU/Linux community,
I'm in the process of liberating a new laptop (Asus X451) from Windows 8.
(Just in case this may help someone later, the WiFi chip in this computer is
by Atheros and works with Linux-libre kernel). The computer in question has
(U)EFI but allows the
Thanks for the tips.
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I looked at choosealicense.com, and found out that this page uses the word
content that one should avoid.
Another reason to avoid using the site is that it leaves No license on the
table as a legitimate option. If you send people to choosealicense.com, they
may decide to go the no license
Tom Preston-Warner represents the open source world. In the open source
world, open source code exists so that proprietary software developers can
build their proprietary software on top of collaboratively maintained
libraries and frameworks. That's why his mantra is open source almost
The USB drives are always formatted to fat32. The problem with other formats
is one of compatibility, licensing, and/or permissions.
Posted it to the ThinkPenguin blog:
http://thinkpenguin.com/blog
great post
http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everything.html
Have you ever written an amazing library or tool at one job and then left to
join another company only to rewrite that code or remain miserable in its
absence? [...] By getting code out in the public we can
Yeah but I think the the former is sometimes a bit too synonymous with the
latter.
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