Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-06 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Lisi Reisz writes: > On Monday 05 October 2015 19:58:19 Timothy Hobbs wrote: >> Lately, I feel that this trust has been violated. Most notably, by the >> addition of advertisements to iceweasel's new tab page. >> http://timothy.hobbs.cz/iceweasel-ads.png See the

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-06 Thread Gabriel Corona
Hi, > Another interesting example is that of the open source Atom text editor: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747824 Atom is, as far as > I can tell, mostly a front end to github's closed source services. No it is a real (purely local/non-Sass) text editor which has some git

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/05/2015 05:50 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 05 October 2015 19:58:19 Timothy Hobbs wrote: >> Lately, I feel that this trust has been violated. Most notably, by the >> addition of advertisements to iceweasel's new tab page. >> http://timothy.hobbs.cz/iceweasel-ads.png See the

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 08:58:19PM +0200, Timothy Hobbs wrote: > Dear list, > > I have used Debian for many years now, and I have come to trust it as a > source of software that is safe. That is, the software > that I install with apt-get is not spy-ware, nor ad-ware, nor malicious in > any

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-06 Thread Timothy Hobbs
Thank you all for your replies. I was particularly pleased with Sven Arvidsson's reply with his link to the DuckDuckGo discussions. I am glad that the iceweasel advertising issue is being resolved. Timothy Hobbs

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/05/2015 09:51 PM, Peter Ludikovsky wrote: Also, would you complain about RedHat for their business model? Peter, That's a can-of-worms you just opened.. I don't complain, but, I do feel RedHat is not the heart of Linux, as you say RedHat is a bu$ine$$ model, while Debian is free and

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-06 Thread Timothy Hobbs
On 10/06/15 11:19, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 08:58:19PM +0200, Timothy Hobbs wrote: Dear list, I have used Debian for many years now, and I have come to trust it as a source of software that is safe. That is, the software that I install with apt-get is not spy-ware, nor

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-06 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 11:50:38AM +0200, Timothy Hobbs wrote: > In light of the recent Java API copyright rulings, I think that this > license may need to be explicit. Personally, I am tending towards > the idea that there would be a new license

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-05 Thread Peter Ludikovsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, > Lately, I feel that this trust has been violated. Most notably, by > the addition of advertisements to iceweasel's new tab page. > http://timothy.hobbs.cz/iceweasel-ads.png See the "Booking.com" > sponsored link. Apparently, that's a bug:

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-05 Thread Seeker
On 10/5/2015 11:58 AM, Timothy Hobbs wrote: Dear list, I have used Debian for many years now, and I have come to trust it as a source of software that is safe. That is, the software that I install with apt-get is not spy-ware, nor ad-ware, nor malicious in any other way. I also have had

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 20:58 +0200, Timothy Hobbs wrote: > Lately, I feel that this trust has been violated. Most notably, by > the > addition of advertisements to iceweasel's new tab page. > http://timothy.hobbs.cz/iceweasel-ads.png See the "Booking.com" > sponsored link. AFAICT that's a bug:

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 05 October 2015 19:58:19 Timothy Hobbs wrote: > Lately, I feel that this trust has been violated. Most notably, by the > addition of advertisements to iceweasel's new tab page. > http://timothy.hobbs.cz/iceweasel-ads.png See the "Booking.com" > sponsored link. I don't see that. Do

Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-05 Thread Timothy Hobbs
Dear list, I have used Debian for many years now, and I have come to trust it as a source of software that is safe. That is, the software that I install with apt-get is not spy-ware, nor ad-ware, nor malicious in any other way. I also have had the overwhelming feeling that the software is "on