Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[greatgnu]

:)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[Adonay Felipe Nogueira]

Thank you very much! ;)

2017-11-23T20:28:47+0100 great...@riseup.net wrote:
> shame on you for doubting adfeno's level of celebritivenesss.
> or is it celebritivity?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[greatgnu]

Well you beat me on that one, ur moar famous, I am just an amateur, I am  
wanted in only 2 states. I am persona non grata in 17 states though, I guess  
that makes up for something. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[contact]

While many, including quite a few so-called celebrities use opensource  
software, they do not use free (as in freedom software) because they do not  
know such a thing exists. There is still the confusion between Libre and  
Opensource, which are not the same thing. We are still in the early stages of  
spreading the word, but Trisquel is helping make this easier. It is not easy  
to go Libre, lack of hardware (like if you are doing pro multimedia) makes  
this difficult, but perhaps we can pressure manufacturers to change. It used  
to be a big deal to even install Linux, now this is less so. We must Libre  
more. 

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[i_write_words]

Good. I wasn't sure because I don't follow celebrity culture AT ALL. ;)

Beiber is sort of like Chuck Norris or Paul Bunyan in some circles--a  
hyperbolic urban myth to illustrate a concept and provide some much needed  
humour. I don't think I've ever actually heard his music.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[leestrobel]

That's a great video! Stephen Fry just put on a +2 Baseball Cap of Coolness,  
in my estimation :D

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[leestrobel]

I was being sarcastic about Bieber being cool, btw - lol! XD

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[i_write_words]

I believe I am wanted in four states and considered armed and dangerous, but  
frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[i_write_words]

I share Calmstorm's minority opinion but am too chickenshit to click on a  
stupid little thumbs up button, lol; long story for another internet forum.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[gslima2016]

I agree partially. The image of transgression was the only thing that brought  
us progress on science, although I agree that what he done on Brazil was not  
a civic thing (he defaced a wall). Formerly scientists thought that  
out-of-box thinking was everything, and they wanted to stimulate more  
scientists to appear, every land was a land of farmers, so they had to appeal  
for transgression for science advancement. Today, we have a big problem: the  
cult of transgression became not well channelled, because of inequality of  
opportunities on life and belicist persons. You know, some old rock bands  
where actually cool, and I pretty like those prior to these days, because  
they only posed as bad persons, but on personal life they where truly  
concerned on morals and ethics. If this consolates you, I heard that he's at  
least making an effort to convert himself to christianism, where many stop  
before recycling its own attitudes.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[gslima2016]

agree very much with this. I can add that Ubuntu would have the right  
philosophy if there where no bad persons and governments on world, other  
places FSF has its place, specially bad owned ruled locals.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[greatgnu]

shame on you for doubting adfeno's level of celebritivenesss.
or is it celebritivity?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[calmstorm]

Sadly, that would scare some people away from it,

ps, Bieber is a prickish animal.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[greatgnu]

>If Bieber uses it then it must be cool :D

I see no fallacy in your argument, hmm, installing it right now. Gotta to be  
cool :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[leestrobel]

If Bieber uses it then it must be cool :D

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[greatgnu]

And finally.. after Hannah Montana GNUlix fresh out of an.s.. Justin  
Bjebberro Lignux \o/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[greatgnu]

Btw I use and advocate, I'm famous in my town. 

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[csh]

Doctorow has become complicit in the War on Sharing.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[masonhock]

That made me feel good. Thank you.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[dahunt]

How refreshing.  Not really out-spoken advocacy, but it's a start.  Maybe  
somene will see that strange desktop and want to learn more about it?  

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[usename]

That is how I generally feel too. I think copyright is fine on arts and  
different works but just not when it comes to software generally because art  
really doesn't need to be changed. It doesn't get bugs it just has a message.  
If I were to write a book/ make a painting I would probably do a limited  
copyright that went to public domain/CCSomething after some time (years). At  
least that's the plan. Also "I own the sole right to allow or disallow anyone  
from using it." sounds nice, I like that idea.
"I need money to live sadly..." This is generally why copyright was made  
anyway... so people could make money of their artistic/literative works. The  
way it is implemented now though is just not the best.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[leestrobel]

I agree very much with this. Free software is a choice that people should  
make, not something that should be imposed on them. Ubuntu is a good  
stepping-stone away from the sinister Windows/Apple world.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[calmstorm]

We need a balance between encouragement, enforcement towards freedom.

IT is hard to do, but when people take a step towards free software, we  
should encourage them to go further, not condemn them for not going far  
enough.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[calmstorm]

Actually, with that attitude, I fear people will not understand our purposes.

I think we should not condemn, or condone at the least if we disagree with  
such things...


As for me, I may have changed my mind on using CC BY SA ver 4...


I may make all of my books on a copyright. One that both expires within 30  
years, but I own the sole right to allow or disallow anyone from using it.


I need money to live sadly...  I will however allow anyone who wants to when  
one is published to make a free software game if they want. It is my right  
after all.
As long as you don't copy the text and are bringing the characters to life in  
a graphical sort of way... yeah.  And of course when the 30 years expires it  
will automatically be set to become that license.


That is my  wish.
That is my plan anyways. this will apply to each book. You can call me a  
traitor if you want, like you did him... but it will get you literally  
nowhere.
I must first of course publish it, but yeah. If you have recommendations for  
publishers who will allow that let me know. If possible maybe 25 years?  
Yeah... for the whole series.

That is all. ;)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[csh]

Stephen Fry uses Ubuntu.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[csh]

GNOME was in a Justin Bieber music video once.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[csh]

Doctorow is a traitor.  He no longer uses CC licenses for his novels.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[dahunt]

I'm not sure what, if anything, of Ubuntu was shown, but, a lead character  
mentioned it by name. Afaik, this has happened once in the entire series  
called The Big Bang Theory. Otherwise, characters are shown using Skype and  
their IThings.  Oh, and I think Ubuntu got a brief mention in a Tom Clancy  
novel; I think all his books are best-sellers. A character was talking about  
outfitting laptops for field operatives in a ficticious intelligence agency,  
and how the operating system's openness and freedom allow the agency to  
purpos-build their systems. H, free software used to spy on folks; not  
sure I like that much...  Now, if only I could remember which book this  
was... If I hadn't been using ShuttleworthOS at the time, I probably wouldn't  
have noticed.  If only we could get more prominent placement.  

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[dhood]

I found the video! Here it is:  
https://www.gnu.org/fry/happy-birthday-to-gnu.en.html 

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[leestrobel]

Ok, that's cool. Stephen Fry seems like a good guy :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[leestrobel]

Yes, that is more what I was getting at. For example, Hollywood or TV stars,  
or musical artists. It seems to me that Free Software could really use one or  
two 'ambassadors' that have a high-profile outside the Free Software  
movement.


Also, it's interesting that you mention product placement. It seems fairly  
rare that I see GNU/Linux used or mentioned on mainstream media. I guess it's  
hard to compete with the big advertising bucks from Microsoft/Apple/Google  
...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[leestrobel]

I meant, except for rms and you, Adfeno, of course! XD

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[dhood]

I'm not sure how active he is or if he uses Free Software in his personal  
life, but Stephen Fry made the now pretty well known 25 Anniversary video for  
Gnu. I can't imagine he did it for the money. 

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[dahunt]

All of those are preachers to the choir.  What I think the op is after are  
names of of celebrities who are known more for their work outside the free  
software connunity, but who are allies.  Hence my mentioning a well-known SF  
author.  On a related topic, who has seen product placement of a GNU/Linux  
distro in pop culture?  Once, so far, I heard the name Ubuntu in a  
massively-popular sit-com.  

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[Adonay Felipe Nogueira]

There are so many, please forgive me if I forget some names. Besides,
this list is in alphabetic order, and I also inserted those beyond
famous, because I don't want to keep giving credit only to specific
already known "stars".

- Adonay "adfeno" Felipe Nogueira (it's me, ;D), member of LibrePlanet
  Brasil;

- Allison Randal, from FSF;

- Alexandre "lxoliva" Oliva, from FSFLA;

- Anahuac de Paula Gil, Brazilian famous for giving very useful talks
  that provoque people on questioning what they know about Tux, Linux,
  and open source, where in the end he always mentions and favors
  free/libre software philosophy;

- Benjamin Mako Hill, from FSF(?);

- Bradley "bkuhn" Kuhn, from Software Freedom Conservancy;

- Christian Grothoff, talks about GNUnet and GNU Taler and mentions the
  free/libre software philosophy in these talks;

- Christopher Allan Webber, developer and writer of some federation
  standards that are currently in the making;

- Clayton "cdausacker" Eduardo Dausacker, member of LibrePlanet Brasil;

- Eben Moglen, from Software Freedom Law Center;

- John Sullivan, from FSF;

- Karen Sandler, from Software Freedom Conservancy;

- Katharina Nocun, politician which also gave a talk during Chaos
  Communication Congress 32c3 (2015) in favor of free/libre software,
  federated social networks and communications and also on distributed
  ones;

- Larissa Oliva, Brazilian who gives talks on the importance of
  free/libre software and education, although I don't know if she gave
  talks on the importance of the philosophy. Anyways, seeing younger
  people getting interested in this area never stops amazing me;

- Luis Villa, a lawyer and former developer;

- Marianne Corvellec. She gave a talk on LibrePlanet 2017 providing an
  alternative view of the ethics (or lack of) in free/libre software
  movement and in open source development methodology;

- Mathias Kirschner, from FSFE;

- Matthew Garrett, known for the talk given in LibrePlanet 2013, where
  he describes the difference between Secure Boot and Restricted Boot;

- Mike Gerwitz, from FSF;

- Nelson de Luca Pretto, Brazilian who does research and talks
  describing the importance of free/libre software philosophy to
  education (if and when the education is to be made with computers);

- Shauna Gordon-McKeon, gives speeches on democracy, artificial scarcity
  and free/libre software. As far as I remember, she gave talks both in
  LibrePlanet 2016 and 2017;

- Sva, talks about GNU Taler and mentions the free/libre software
  philosophy in these talks;

- Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Brazilian who gives talks about the
  importance of copyleft, community-oriented enforcement and free/libre
  software;

I have listed some speakers that I remember just now, not users.

Once again, forgive me if I forget one. ;)

leestro...@gmail.com writes:

> I'm just wondering if there are any celebrities that are known to use
> Free Software? (apart from rms, obviously!) :)
>

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Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[leestrobel]

Ok, that's interesting. I hadn't heard of him, but I might have to check out  
some of his books :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[dahunt]

Thesci-fi author, Cory Doctorow comes to mind.  He addressed this spring's  
Libreplanet conference and was a hit!  

[Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

[leestrobel]

I'm just wondering if there are any celebrities that are known to use Free  
Software? (apart from rms, obviously!) :)