Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Article] Can the Terms of the GPL Prevent GNU/Linux being used for War?

2012-08-31 Thread Benjamin Henrion
for that: http://www.egpl.info/ For nonMIL: http://www.egpl.info/feeds/1 -- Benjamin Henrion bhenrion at ffii.org FFII Brussels - +32-484-566109 - +32-2-3500762 In July 2005, after several failed attempts to legalise software patents in Europe, the patent establishment changed its strategy. Instead

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Migrating to Postgres 9 for replication?

2012-05-10 Thread Benjamin Henrion
failover copies. It would save a lot of maintenance time, I am imagining! I wrote some scripts to do point in time recovery (PITR), live backup using rsync, and booting a slave with pgbackup. I will release them soon on github, will keep you posted. -- Benjamin Henrion bhenrion at ffii.org FFII

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Sign the Hague declaration

2008-05-15 Thread Benjamin Henrion
Fee, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080515]: Benjamin Henrion wrote: Exclude proprietary file formats from public nuisance, yes. Public nuisance? Surely the public at large gets to choose what they view as a nuisance rather than you? Public nuisance is for example promotion of monopolies

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Sign the Hague declaration

2008-05-15 Thread Benjamin Henrion
because we have data networks we did not had before. The internet and email makes that you will receive soon *.docx files from your friends, with nice macro extensions you won't be able to decode because you did not buy software XYZ. -- Benjamin Henrion [EMAIL PROTECTED] FFII Brussels - +32-484

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Sign the Hague declaration

2008-05-15 Thread Benjamin Henrion
Fee, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080515]: Benjamin Henrion wrote: And I have a right to find out what my governement is doing, how is it possible if the governement forces me to buy a copy Microsoft Word 2003 (TM), and thus also a copy of Microsoft Windows (TM), and thus also an intel

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Sign the Hague declaration

2008-05-15 Thread Benjamin Henrion
practical. And I'm a very practical guy. Practical guys makes compromises with freedom. As a citizen, I don't accept the government rolling over my basic rights. -- Benjamin Henrion [EMAIL PROTECTED] FFII Brussels - +32-484-566109 - +32-2-4148403

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Sign the Hague declaration

2008-05-15 Thread Benjamin Henrion
Fee, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080515]: Benjamin Henrion wrote: The only application that reads 100% proprietary file formats is the application that goes with it. Well shoot, that can be said about a lot of formats even those that are open. Does OO read/write ODF better than Google

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Sign the Hague declaration

2008-05-14 Thread Benjamin Henrion
with citizens, governments could exclude participation of their own citizens just by using proprietary standards. -- Benjamin Henrion [EMAIL PROTECTED] FFII Brussels - +32-484-566109 - +32-2-4148403 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http