Re: [Trisquel-users] I've probably misunderstood the difference between the open source, and the free software movements

2016-01-20 Thread tegskywalker
The most important thing to consider is the license. As long as the license is both Free Software and Open Source approved (GPL, Apache, BSD licenses, MIT, MPL), they are the same thing and you can appease to both camps. Its just that the two camps have different ideologies on how we should b

[Trisquel-users] The Android app for Facebook now officially supports Tor

2016-01-20 Thread tegskywalker
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3024305/security/privacy-conscious-users-rejoice-you-can-now-use-facebooks-android-app-over-tor.html Thoughts? Who would have thought that Facebook would allow Tor in their settings for their official app. Crazy.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I've probably misunderstood the difference between the open source, and the free software movements

2016-01-20 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
About non-functional data, perhaps we ended up talking about different movements when approaching the relevant questions... I'm not for free culture. However, "free culture" is different from "non-funcional data for non-commercial redistribution". Most people think that they're the same (and in fa

Re: [Trisquel-users] I've probably misunderstood the difference between the open source, and the free software movements

2016-01-20 Thread Adam Wilson
> 1. It seems that, just because a might-be-free software recommends > or suggests non-free software, it doesn't make the software non-free. This is true. I think it is bad for free software to have non-free dependencies, but that being the case does not negate the software license and make it mag