So.. nobody knows how to change it?
Thanks
"I just think that if less people did it and swallowed their pride for the
greater good of a project, that we would have better quality free software
code."
People say this so much but whenever anyone sits down and tries to do this,
nobody agrees on what project to focus on as everyone has
People will never agree as they are stubborn and will protect their ego. If
there is a disagreement, they will create their own community. After time,
there is conflict within the new community and members leave to start yet
another.
There may never be a solution to this. That's why compani
Did you even read it? THE GAME ENGINES WILL BE FREE.
Thanks for your reply. It might be a little over my head, but why do some
programs i.e. Electrum have "helpers" and others i.e. Jitsi do not?
If I had Mark Shuttleworth money, I would put it towards building libre
hardware. I want an open society so true innovation can happen without
restrictions.
Unfortunately, companies with the big money are focusing on mobile and tablet
devices and are locking things down more and more.
"Crowdfunding is supposed to help with getting the initial capital. What
happens when you need more money to deliver your project and sustain it for
years? Are you going to alienate and piss off your original investors if you
cannot meet those demands?"
If it turns out that the initial crow
I re-read my post a few hours later and actually felt bad about what I said
there. I apologize for those comments and initially meant to say "most"
instead of none. I actually use your repos for the kernel and VLC and am
thankful for that.
I just feel like I bang my head against the wall so
I keep on seeing crowdfunding being mentioned as the best solution, but from
what I've seen, only the games that have a big name behind them or franchise
get the full funding. I'm talking about Shenmue 3, Mighty Number 9, and that
Castlevania spinoff.
All of these success stories result in
> How is the approach different from Debian?
It's a bit difficult to wrap my head around this. We're not a distribution
and only attempting to draw people away from non-free operating systems.
Including partly non-free ones.
> Encouraging people not to even talk about this software does not
"And not all people are unimaginative."
I didn't say all people were. Just those that can't imagine any other funding
model as being valid.
"Not all people are assholes who *want* to make stuff proprietary."
Haha, but the reverse is true and all people that make proprietary stuff are?
Than
"Would you please open your eyes? It's obviously _not_ working.
I wished too that it would work and a lot of people could make a living from
developing great free software games; reality is different though."
And this means that I can't "like to see more people doing what onpon4 is
doing and
But because we build the GPU, doesn´t that mean, that we would have to
develop the firmware?
But seeing, that no one develop it, I think that this thing will be never
released. What a shame. We have some open CPU´s but no one is building
them...
The commercially available part was a given, the freedoms part actually could
be an issue seeing as this is based off AMDs open parts.
Yet another example of Open doesn't necessarily mean free.
Thank you for your support.
"Just because someone is unimaginative and can't think of how to raise enough
to fund what they want to do doesn't justify making stuff proprietary."
Are you more imaginative?
Have a plan for earning enough cash in order to make a free video game?
Hundred-thousands of gigantic masterpieces hav
ok i dont know what happen to my last post but i have heard this From
JupiterBroadcasting a lot and i agree we need an os standerd amd pratice -
recently had to email FSF for some ? and i will never do it again- i will not
be treated like an idoit. we need to rethink how we approach new user
"I'd like to see more people doing what onpon4 is doing and developing free
games commercially."
Would you please open your eyes? It's obviously _not_ working.
I wished too that it would work and a lot of people could make a living from
developing great free software games; reality is differe
You know what website people here link all the time?
http://www.gnu.org/distros/optionally-free-not-enough.html
How is your approach different from debian?
Don't get me wrong, I agree perfectly with what you're saying, but people
here normally don't.
Why do they bash on debian but not on you?
the Computer Bild, a computer magazine, sometimes bundles the Opensource DVD
with their magazine http://www.opensource-dvd.de/, so it wouldn´t be
impossible.
Keep in mind it's not something commercially available and we don't entirely
know what they mean by "open source". AMD has "open source" graphics chip
too, but it's not free software.
I just want to say thank you for contributing all these years the Linux-Libre
repository you maintain. It's really helped *a lot* of users get on board
with newer hardware *still being sold*. Without that there would be a good
chunk of people here who wouldn't be on Trisquel today.
i am determine to to make my own but this be an challenge for me to look up
good games and wallpapers- i will install gnome3 on trisquel and get an libre
games os
https://github.com/VerticalResearchGroup/miaow There is the source code.
http://miaowgpu.org/ Here is the homepage.
@t3g-i agree but the Linux community needs to agree on what is what- i
recently email the FSF about couple of things and they rubbed me the wrong
way. i'm sorry but we need to have change in the big boy playground so us
little guys (newcomers} can also play and help premote libre free sofware
think-penguin sell one:
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-usb-20-hi-speed-10100-fast-ethernet-network-adapter
Well, I get your overall sentiment, but I'm not sure I totally agree in that
"nobody" has/is. There are a half dozen people here at a minimum that either
do contribute something. Be it development time, work on maintaining a
repository, work on maintaining a distribution (at least 3 people wh
"I've been on these forums 4+ years and besides Ruben packaging a Trisquel
ISO every few years, no one here has really contributed anything to the free
software cause of any significance."
Wow. Just. Wow.
Your entitled to that position, but its contradictory to movement's position.
Non-free software is unethical. If you don't agree then it's not the right
place for you.
Sorry, I was distracted by your incorrect usage of "your" and "you're". :-)
Anyways, I softballed some solutions to the free engine debacle so hopefully
it was helpful.
I think your missing the point. It's not a topic we should be discussing
here. We shouldn't be having a discussion on DRM in relation to gaming. Any
game with DRM is non-free and not appropriate here. If you feel otherwise
it's a discussion you need to take elsewhere. In fact your not in agre
I've been on these forums 4+ years and besides Ruben packaging a Trisquel ISO
every few years, no one here has really contributed anything to the free
software cause of any significance. People here are more concerned in
pointing fingers and telling you that you are wrong without providing
It's not about the money. It's about reality. Sometimes to move forward you
need to take baby steps. * We don't tell users what distribution to get *. We
ask them what distribution would you like? And if they don't know they get a
'default'. The default is based off the assumption they don't
1. Your not following what I'm saying. If you waste time trying to get people
to understand your view point who aren't listening you might as well be
talking to a brick wall. It's better to spend time addressing the problems
which are holding people back from being able (due to lack of compet
i going to say this and be done with it- games are not evil- i am, tired of
people saying video games cause voilence but im sorry they dont but the linux
cummonity needs a game devolper team that runs an GPL engine and only focus
on games for linux but untill then i for one while pay 50 bucks
Check my comment above:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/do-drm-free-games-matter-even-if-game-non-free#comment-77905
One example is
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-pocket-wee-gnu-linux-desktop
"Default configuration:Ubuntu
Compatible with Microsoft Windows 7"
If Chris was 100% to free software like he preaches on here and fights with
people, he wouldn't offer Ubuntu or even mention it. S
This is the point I was trying to make in my original post. It is stupid that
the engine is closed source, but it is ok for the artwork to be not "gratis"
if you are trying to sell an actual game.
Some games like Team Fortress 2 are free to play but the only thing you pay
for is cosmetic it
Thanks, moxalt.
I will include this into my daily ritual.
Still reading about the command line.
I will but not shure how to do it.Maybe someone can explain me.
Those artists are trying to make money from live performances because that is
the only way for them to make their own money these days. Gone are people
buying $20+ records (ever since Napster) and instead people would rather
download them on their smart phone, stream via a site like Spotify o
For a while I have been trying to think of ways to encourage more people to
make their games more freedom friendly but also get paid to continue to do
what they love. I do agree that making games DRM free is a good step in the
right direction, but there should be more than that.
You do have
Deus Ex... One of the best games ever made. A lot of people are really pissed
off about the "augment your pre-order" mess with mankind divided. I really
wish somebody would reverse-engineer Deus Ex, I would make monthly donations
to said project.
I tried to create accounts on jitsi via XMPP (one for me, ad a few for my
contacts).
Let's be honest, having so much supported networks is cool, but it isn't
helpful at all. This program seriously needs a beginner guide.
I had to make some research to find out that XMPP is working fine is easy
That's pretty cool, I just looked it up not even 2 hours before I saw this
post.
How about a Free Philosophy page? You can have Games be a subpage on that and
have sticky topics on "Evil Consoles", "Windows DRM Games is a lesser evil of
Consoles", "DRM-Free/non-free Windows Games is a lesser evil of DRM Windows
Games", "DRM-Free/non-free games on a free OS is a lesser evi
I'm not really interested in help with the programming parts right now,
unless that comes down to finding and fixing bugs in either the SGE Game
Engine or xSGE (which are both publicly available). But if someone wants to
make some levels for ReTux, and can make good levels, then I would accep
The helper that brings electrum to trisquel, get it from debian testing,
check it here:
https://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel/package-helpers/blob/belenos/helpers/make-electrum#L21
So, when a new version is avaliable there, it's built and imported into
Trisquel. There are other helpers that b
Today I ran my updates and to my surprise Electrum upgraded from 1.9.8 to
2.4.4 and I don't know why. Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy it did. I
thought I was going to have to wait another 2 years to get the latest
version.
But my understanding is that only security updates and other bu
Most Developers go for the convenience like the "I have to use Adobe" world
of Content Creators. When it comes to Games, they use middleware that have
re-licensing restrictions and in a lot of cases, making non-free software
free is just as hard as legally making a non-free fork of GPL Code,
I will try what you wrote. In fact, I had in mind to keep my two wired
interfaces (one for each computer) on the same subnetwork. But, after
re-tinking about it, it might not be useful as I would only prefer that my
computer which has not yet access to Internet keeps the same IP address. In
If you have fun doing it and don't care that it may result in failure, then
just go for it.
A lot of great things origin from just playing around for fun.
Here's a related bug. It says "Please in the future include the report of
blocked files when dealing with librejs bugs."
[#8238]
Yes! Let's do it!
RESOLVED - thanks! Here's my update:
Symptom: USB wireless adapter not detected after Trisquelizing Ubuntu from
14.04 -> Trisuel 7
Configuration: Lenovo Thinkpad x220
Trisquel 7 Belenos
Wireless N USB Adapter w/ External 5dBi Antenna (Atheros AR9271) from
Thinkpenguin
Issue: open-ath9k-ht
With a crowdfunding campaign where large donations leads to requesting a
feature. I am pretty sure an hypothetical free software GTA 6 could be
entirely funded in this way.
Even without the fame of GTA's developers, Cloud Imperium Games received,
from about one million players, 89 millions
> DRM is a breach but not as bad as Windows 10
That doesn't excuse DRM, however.
I would argue that Stalin wasn't as bad as Hitler, but that by no means
legitimises Stalin.
Just curious.
> Tom's under 15
!!!
I *am* 15.
> knock-off/lookalike
Except that it was neither a knock-off or a lookalike, because it was actually
still Damn Small Linux- just with a different set of programs apart from the
default bundled selection.
That is nowhere near akin to 'making your own distro'. I do the same thing
whenever I instal
> especially if you are under 15, female
What?
That shouldn't have anything to do with your ability to type or express
yourself. Now if you could only concentrate enough to type for short periods of
*time* then sure, but the quality of the typing should not be diminished.
> I would find it interesting, if someone would resurrect trisquel gamers
Agreed. They should.
> Maybe some PC magazines would use that.
Yeaaahhh.. No. I doubt it.
LibreJS reports the presence of non-free JavaScript on both trisquel.info and
packages.trisquel.info. Is this actually the case (I doubt it)? Or is this
simply because the Trisquel website simply hasn't implemented the LibreJS
compatibility tag thingy?
Sudo isn't the command that actually does the adding of packages to the system-
that would be apt-get. Sudo is the command which elevates the status of the
appended program to give it root privileges.
In order to install GNOME 3 (Shell) in Trisquel:
# apt-get install gnome
I can't speak for your current setup but it generally works like this: Have
two interfaces on machine 1 (eth0 to Internet, eth1 is unconnected) and
bridge them, then configure the bridge (br0) on machine 1 to connect to the
Internet - plug in machine 2 to eth1 and it'll go straight to the Int
Would you accept outside contributors to help with the game's development?
Text to make it easier for everyone.
"Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open Source Graphics Processor
By Alexander Hellemans
While open-source hardware is already available for CPUs, researchers from
the Vertical Research Group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have
announced at the Hot Ch
So this is still in the prototype stage but this is some great news for the
future of free hardware design.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/processors/miaow-an-opensource-graphics-processor
" we'll never get to a free solution tomorrow if all we do is respond to
ignorant comments defending our position. In this case it's not even entirely
true."
So let's shut ourself up from new impulses so that we can stick to our
opinions that we currently have?
I think that's a bad way and
Can you provide a patch to the libreboot documentation with this new method?
These are the instructions: http://libreboot.org/git/
Agreed, interesting topic but there is nothing new to be said about it.
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