Disturbingly that applies as much to Monsanto as it does to Ubuntu or FOSS. On 30 Apr 2014 07:15, "James Cuzella" <trinitr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Complaints show fear, anger & ungratefulness while calm feature requests > show peace, gratefulness & understanding of a problem. > > Community giving of FOSS shows kindness & compassion, while taking & > complaining shows an unsatisfied desire for control. > > True control lies in harmonising with the community, and paradoxically > involves letting go of your need for control while also giving the part > which is under your control. > > Heartbleed shows inherent insecurity of a house divided against itself.... > yet it also shows the speed of the Whole to heal itself. > > Privacy is an illusion... security built on deterministic Laws has little > room for true randomness without hiding within Complexity. The appearance > of randomness is Chaos, yet within the chaos lies a higher Order. > > No matter which side you think you are on... you're actually on both, and > they are not truly opposed when undivided. > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Sam Liddicott <s...@liddicott.com> > wrote: > > > I'm feed up of people complaining about people complaining about wilful > bad > > security. > > > > This is doubly so considering all the criticism that has gone the way of > > the OpenSSL people in the wake of Heartbleed. > > > > A little more discussion there might have helped, but here it obviously > > hasn't! > > > > When someone gives their time and experience to improve software designs > > from fatal flaws, often in the evenings with other distractions, they get > > next to no gratitude and a whole heap of criticism as if their drawing > > attention to the flaw is worse than the flaw itself. > > > > Free software doesn't stop people talking about the naked emperor. > > > > If they are not government spies and but just play at spies in their > > evenings (with other distractions) then that is fine, but if they then > make > > a public gift of it can they really expect people to not talk about it? > > > > They don't buy our silence with their wooden horse! > > > > We don't use it and we warn others. We actually care about their users! > > > > Sam > > On 28 Apr 2014 18:55, "Chris Kerr" <gingek...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I'm fed up of people complaining about developers. It's *free > software*, > > > and if you get anything more than you paid for then you should be > > > grateful (I certainly am). > > > > > > This is doubly so considering all the criticism that has gone the way > of > > > the OpenSSL people in the wake of Heartbleed. When someone gives their > > > best effort to produce software as a gift to the community, often > > > working in spare evenings with lots of other distractions which prevent > > > them giving their full focus to the task, they get next to no praise > > > when it works and a whole heap of criticism when they make a tiny > > > mistake. People even accuse them of deliberately inserting the mistake > > > as a government spy. > > > > > > I'm currently writing up my PhD thesis. When I finish, I will have some > > > free time while waiting for my viva voce, and would be willing to spend > > > some of that time trying to fix this, as it is something I would find > > > useful myself and potentially also a helpful addition to my CV. However > > > there are probably plenty of people out there who would do a better job > > > than I, especially since I have mainly used Fortran and Python for the > > > last 4 years so my C/C++ is rather rusty. > > > > > > -- > > > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the > bug > > > report. > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867 > > > > > > Title: > > > empathy needs to support OTR encryption > > > > > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/296867/+subscriptions > > > > > > > -- > > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > > report. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867 > > > > Title: > > empathy needs to support OTR encryption > > > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/296867/+subscriptions > > > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867 > > Title: > empathy needs to support OTR encryption > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/296867/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867 Title: empathy needs to support OTR encryption Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface: Confirmed Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Invalid Status in Telepathy framework - library: Confirmed Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “libtelepathy” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “empathy” package in Fedora: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: empathy Hello, I just tried empathy (the Intrepid version) and it looked very solid and stable. There were a few minor things that could be improved (e.g. automatically resizing the contact list), but that is not the topic here. The reason why I won't switch to empathy from pidgin is the missing OTR support (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ ). This is a really important feature because no one should read your messages. There were others with the same idea (links at the bottom). Would be so great if it could support that important encryption standard. Thanks for helping out! Links: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/253452/comments/2 http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2008-September/001479.html http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16891 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/296867/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
