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Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 10, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Marc Volovic wrote: People, RMS (as well as any other person) is entitled to support, adhere, acquiesce or abhor, deny, etc any and all BDS activities. The man is entitled to his opinion and choice. It is his right as a man and as a public figure. Marc, it

Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 09:45:33AM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Jun 10, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Marc Volovic wrote: People, RMS (as well as any other person) is entitled to support, adhere, acquiesce or abhor, deny, etc any and all BDS activities. The man is entitled to his opinion and

Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-12 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 09:45, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 10, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Marc Volovic wrote: People, RMS (as well as any other person) is entitled to support, adhere, acquiesce or abhor, deny, etc any and all BDS activities. The man is entitled to

Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Uri Even-Chen wrote: I don't agree with you, Geoff. What Richard Stallman does as a private person does not mean the FSF in involved. As a private person Richard Stallman has the right to boycott Israeli institutions and universities. It does not mean that

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-12 Thread Baruch Even
On Jun 10, 2011 8:53 PM, Steve G. word...@gmail.com wrote: If you want computer to computer, there are plenty of chat clients that would work - Jabber, msn, aol, yahoo, I think all have voice and video communications in them. Gmail is another excellent system. The problem is the network effect -

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-12 Thread Steve G.
Maybe, but that is my choice. I am not yet abandoning open source, or course, but will from now on try to be more diverse. On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Baruch Even bar...@ev-en.org wrote: On Jun 10, 2011 8:53 PM, Steve G. word...@gmail.com wrote: If you want computer to computer, there

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-12 Thread Udi Finkelstein
The number of free software packages where RMS is involved, or even was ever involved, is very small compared to the whole open software universe. Even if you decide to boycott the entire GNU projectyou stll have tons of free software that is not FSF-related. But then, it's you choice - feel free

Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-12 Thread Marc Volovic
Being significantly less conversant with US corporate law than e.g. Israeli corporate law, I'll take your comments at face value. Is RMS, by agreeing to the conditions set by the financial contributors to his visit, in violation of US law? Mind - to the best of my understanding - he has not

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-12 Thread Mordecha Behar
Well, seeing as how most workers' strikes here only punish those who are striking, that would be completely in character :P But more seriously, the main advantage that I see to using Skype is that everybody else does. It's like the Myspace/Facebook war of a few years ago. Facebook won because

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-12 Thread Uri Even-Chen
2011/6/12 Udi Finkelstein linux...@udif.com The number of free software packages where RMS is involved, or even was ever involved, is very small compared to the whole open software universe. Even if you decide to boycott the entire GNU projectyou stll have tons of free software that is not

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 12, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Mordecha Behar wrote: That means that at some point there will be FOSS alternatives that will be able to connect to the Skype network. There is and has been for some time. It just costs you money. Skype offically supports SIP. You have to pay for each SIP

Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-12 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Marc Volovic marcvolo...@me.com wrote: Being significantly less conversant with US corporate law than e.g. Israeli corporate law, I'll take your comments at face value. Is RMS, by agreeing to the conditions set by the financial contributors to his visit, in

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-12 Thread Steve G.
I am neither planning nor recommending to boycott GNU or FSF. I also drive German and Japanese cars. I AM planning to maintain alternatives to them - that is, while my attitude in the past was to find ways to use open source solutions even if it meant, often, spending days fixing bugs and

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 09:19:55AM -0600, Steve G. wrote: I am neither planning nor recommending to boycott GNU or FSF. I also drive German and Japanese cars. I AM planning to maintain alternatives to them - that is, while my attitude in the past was to find ways to use open source solutions

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-12 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: Or when OpenOffice.org gets abandoned by Oracle, where will you move to? Hmm, maybe LibreOffice? Good question: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/01/oracle_openoffice_apache/ ;-) -- Oleg Goldshmidt |

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-12 Thread Steve G.
1. You can't say RMS is not a leading voice of free software. Then there is mint. Then there are others. 2. The advantage of diversity is that if MS drops skype, and there is a market need, they would come up with an alternative. And if not, there is always Apple, Oracle, or another business that

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:24:26AM -0600, Steve G. wrote: 1. You can't say RMS is not a leading voice of free software. Then there is mint. Then there are others. 2. The advantage of diversity is that if MS drops skype, and there is a market need, they would come up with an alternative. And

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 08:00:45PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: Or when OpenOffice.org gets abandoned by Oracle, where will you move to? Hmm, maybe LibreOffice? Good question:

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-12 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Oracle's alternative to Skype is? Apple's is? Apple's is Facetime, but they've got a *long* way to go before they match Skype for features IMHO. Oh and the whole not running on anything other than an Apple OS thing. Geoff.

Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-12 Thread Stan Goodman
On Sunday 12 June 2011 at 22:24:54 (GMT+2) Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: f FSF falls under the anti-boycott law (and I don't know that) then not only must RMS refuse to visit the PA, he (i.e., FSF) must report the request (this is the legal term in the context) to the US

Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:35 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: My guess is that the anti-boycott law has nothing to do with FSF or any other voluntary organization (like what is called amutah in Hebrew), which is what I understand FSF to be. They are a 501 c 3 corporation, which limits prevents them

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-12 Thread Uri Even-Chen
Ha ha ha! After writing Skype three times, they agreed to manually reactivate my credits. It's only 2.14 euro, but it's better to have them back in my account. Now I will write them again and ask for a refund. Thanks for the advice! Uri Even-Chen Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559 E-mail:

Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-12 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 22:35, Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.comwrote: My guess is that the anti-boycott law has nothing to do with FSF or any other voluntary organization (like what is called amutah in Hebrew), which is what I understand FSF to be. As far as I know, there is a law in

Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-12 Thread Steve G.
I do not think what he is doing is necessary illegal, especially since he leaves open the option of a 'bidding war', where someone else pays his expenses, but the way he handled this issue is very clumsy and unfortunate. As I had said before, he should have checked with his sponsor before offering