Re: FOSSY: FSF no presence?
I wonder if the FSF would be more willing if they dropped the O and the first S. Then it would just be free software. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Get [1]Outlook for Android __ From: Theodore Somers Sent: Friday, July 7, 2023 9:00:32 AM To: Andy Tai ; libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org Subject: Re: FOSSY: FSF no presence? I wonder if the FSF would be more willing if they dropped the O and the first S. Then it would just be free software. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Get [2]Outlook for Android __ From: libreplanet-discuss-bounces+knowledgeofnations=outlook.com@libreplanet. org on behalf of Andy Tai Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2023 3:51:31 PM To: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org Subject: FOSSY: FSF no presence? SFC's conference in Portland in July13 to 16--FSF has no presence? ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org [3]https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss References 1. https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg 2. https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg 3. https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
Re: FOSSY: FSF no presence?
I wonder if the FSF would be more willing if they dropped the O and the first S. Then it would just be free software. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Get [1]Outlook for Android __ From: libreplanet-discuss-bounces+knowledgeofnations=outlook.com@libreplanet. org on behalf of Andy Tai Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2023 3:51:31 PM To: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org Subject: FOSSY: FSF no presence? SFC's conference in Portland in July13 to 16--FSF has no presence? ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org [2]https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss References 1. https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg 2. https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
Re: FSF continuously harms Free Hardware
On 1/18/22 20:16, Richard Stallman wrote: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I think that none in Free Software would support being forced to use > proprietary software filled with malware that injects malware in their > free software with hardware designs it is the exact same situation just > instead instead of "compiler" you have "fabricators". You're right that the two are similar. But there is a crucial difference. We can get around the problems at the level above the processor level by writing software. We can't deal with the problems inside the processor that way. Suppose a processor has malicious functionalities. There are three ways it is likely to be implementd: 1. By unchangeable circuits. 2. By firmware in ROM. 3. By secret firmware in RAM. These three are equivalent because, in all three, we are equally helplsss. In theory, in case 3 reverse engineering would be able to fix it. But we can't do any reverse engineering -- we can encourage people to do such it. Thus, we treat all three cases the same. Case 2 may also be fixable if the rom chip is on the board (depending on how difficult it would be to replace without damaging the rest of the system). If it is feasible to replace the rom, then it would simply be a problem of reverse engineering. ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
Re: LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!
On 12/30/21 8:26 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] For practical success, it is desirable to make the game easy to install. To respect users' freedom, it is important to avoid dependence on any nonfree software. To let the community make sure the program is safe and not malware, we need to encourage users to package the program for distros. (See https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html.) It is important to achieve all three goals. The second is often ignored, but then the free software idea is forgotten. The third is one we often forget. Can you find a good way to achieve all three? Wouldn't packaging for specific distros make the game less accessible? Creating a specific guix or flatpak (or even debian or arch) repository could allow more access to the game(s) rather than waiting for distribution maintainers to act. ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
