Re: ANN: Gemas 0.1

2010-12-17 Thread Richard Stallman
Would you like to work on improving the integration of Emacs with GNUstep? -- Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org

Re: Steven P. Jobs 1955-2011: Here's to the crazy one who inspired us all...

2011-10-08 Thread Richard Stallman
So it is unfair of RMS to characterize Steve as the one who made jail cool. That is fair because that is the most important effect he had on the world. Don't let one bad thing tarnish a myriad of great things. I don't

Re: Steven P. Jobs 1955-2011: Here's to the crazy one who inspired us all...

2011-10-08 Thread Richard Stallman
advances. Only that they can't outweigh Apple's wrongs. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel

Re: Steven P. Jobs 1955-2011: Here's to the crazy one who inspired us all...

2011-10-09 Thread Richard Stallman
I don't think Richard's statement is completely ignorant or wrong; I just feel it's stated in a completely inappropriate way. I don't see anything wrong with it, but if you have an idea for how to do it better, please go ahead. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation

Re: Steven P. Jobs 1955-2011: Here's to the crazy one who inspired us all...

2011-10-09 Thread Richard Stallman
advances are very important compared with attacks on our freedom. We need to focus on those attacks. We must not let ourselves be won over to praise something that threatens our freedom because of something secondary. When I die, you'll be free to write my obituary any way you like. -- Dr Richard

Re: Steven P. Jobs 1955-2011: Here's to the crazy one who inspired us all...

2011-10-10 Thread Richard Stallman
Meego, which in any case I don't know enough about to write an article about it. By all means publish your views on this matter, but I don't think they are a different way of expressing the same views as mine I think they are different views. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software

Re: Steven P. Jobs 1955-2011: Here's to the crazy one who inspired us all...

2011-10-11 Thread Richard Stallman
question. I'm indifferent, but I find that many of my users are strongly opposed to the GPLv3. Why are they opposed to it? Is it because of the part that bans tivoization? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA

Re: Steven P. Jobs 1955-2011: Here's to the crazy one who inspired us all...

2011-10-11 Thread Richard Stallman
of a system that threatens our freedom, and what they dislike about the GPL3 is that it resists in an effective way. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software

Re: Steven P. Jobs 1955-2011: Here's to the crazy one who inspired us all...

2011-10-13 Thread Richard Stallman
...@gnu.org. Please don't do it here in a list whose purpose is development of one particular GNU package. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free

Re: ANN: DataBasin 0.4

2011-11-04 Thread Richard Stallman
This program is free software, but Sales Force seems like SaaS. How about making a free local replacement for it, starting from RT? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom

Re: ANN: DataBasin 0.4

2011-11-06 Thread Richard Stallman
If SugarCRM is indeed a free software equivalent to SalesForce, I am glad to know we already have one. Only the Community Edition of SugarCRM is free. How useful is the Community Edition of SugarCRM? Does it do the needed jobs? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software

Re: ANN: DataBasin 0.4

2011-11-07 Thread Richard Stallman
because Mozilla's list includes nonfree ones. We started our own list of extensions for OpenOffice, but fortunately the LibreOffice fork was started and they adopted our list. Because (as you can tell from the name they chose) they endorse the free software movement, not open source. -- Dr Richard

Re: [gap-discuss] ANN: DataBasin 0.4

2011-11-07 Thread Richard Stallman
ignore our advice, some will pay attention. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel

Re: ANN: DataBasin 0.4

2011-12-29 Thread Richard Stallman
. Even if it is SaaS the way it's done now, it doesn't inevitably have to be SaaS. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http

Re: Announce: MPDCon 1.3

2012-10-22 Thread Richard Stallman
Congratulations on the new release. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call

Re: Announce: MPDCon 1.4

2012-12-31 Thread Richard Stallman
Congratulations on the new release. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call

Re: ANN: BatMon 0.7

2014-09-05 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ 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. ]]] Congratulations on the new release. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free

Re: Announce: TimeMon 4.2

2015-06-10 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ 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. ]]] Congratulations on the new release. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free

Please, no GitHub

2015-12-08 Thread Richard Stallman
this? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html. ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org

git.gnu.io

2015-12-09 Thread Richard Stallman
but it is surely at least as good as GitLab and may be better. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html. ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing

Re: Please, no GitHub

2015-12-12 Thread Richard Stallman
t;only" or "or-later". -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html. ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gn

Re: Please, no GitHub

2015-12-12 Thread Richard Stallman
t are legally unclear and unreliable (for instance, not stating the license on the source files themselves), and don't mention the difference between GPL 3-or-later and GPL 3-only, this leading people to choose the latter without realizing they made a choice. This fails C5. -- Dr Richard Stallman Pre

Re: Please, no GitHub

2015-12-14 Thread Richard Stallman
time for some request to be handled. That inconvenience doesn't stop most GNUstep volunteers. And there are other ethical repository solutions too. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See st

Re: Please, no GitHub

2015-12-10 Thread Richard Stallman
tware our repositories require people to run. Recommending nonfree software is a problem of a deeper level than the lack of some convenience. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/s

Re: Please, no GitHub

2015-12-10 Thread Richard Stallman
sion of freedom is > rather absolutistic, since forcing freedom upon others goes against the > very nature of freedom. We have set criteria on which to judge and accept repositories. I don't think your description fits the facts, not even slightly. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free S

Re: Please, no GitHub

2015-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
separate service is also an option we can consider. The Savannah volunteers are overloaded already. Thus, anything I ask them to do is going to take time. If someone would please volunteer to join that team, that would greatly help us to provide bettet service and make improvements. -- Dr Richard

Re: Please, no GitHub

2015-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
se notices is a serious problem. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html. ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.o

Re: ANN: New version of PikoPixel, pixel-art editor

2016-11-17 Thread Richard Stallman
gt; OS X & GNUstep. A new version, 1.0 BETA7, is now available. It sounds good -- but the licensing is not clearly stated. Is it AGPL version 3 only, or AGPL version 3 or later? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethall

Re: ANN: New version of PikoPixel, pixel-art editor

2016-11-20 Thread Richard Stallman
ike to talk with the developer to urge changing to AGPL 3+? If the developer rejects doing that, could you please ask why? I'd like to know. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.

Re: ANN: New version of PikoPixel, pixel-art editor

2016-11-20 Thread Richard Stallman
and for "or > later" (e.g. AGPLv3+), and leave it off to mean "version only" (though > that's ambiguous without context). If I knew you always said "+" when appropriate, I would have understood, but I don't know you so I didn't know that. I suggest saying "-only&

Re: ANN: New version of PikoPixel, pixel-art editor

2018-02-27 Thread Richard Stallman
it. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html. ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep

Re: ANN: StepSync 1.0

2018-09-30 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ 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. ]]] Congratulations on the new release. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free

Re: ANN: Gorm 1.2.24

2019-02-07 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ 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. ]]] Congratulations on the new release. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free

Re: Call to stop contributing

2021-03-29 Thread Richard Stallman
Nazis, violent nationalists and violent > bigots grow in power, it is bizarre that people focus on crushing > someone like me. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-

Re: Call to stop contributing

2021-03-27 Thread Richard Stallman
with. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: ANN: GNUstep Windows MSVC Toolchain Scripts

2021-03-31 Thread Richard Stallman
ses > information from the property declarations to control how ARC is done) > currently they are partially supported in GCC. Could you tell me what properties are, and what is missing? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundati

Re: ANN: GNUstep Windows MSVC Toolchain Scripts

2021-03-31 Thread Richard Stallman
on't know from where, but many in the free software movement HATE Apple and might contribute to this. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: ANN: GNUstep Windows MSVC Toolchain Scripts

2021-03-18 Thread Richard Stallman
cripts to build GNUstep for Windows with Clang and libobjc2 using > the Visual Studio toolchain and MSVC ABI (i.e. without MinGW): Please keep recommending GCC as the compiler to choose. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundati

Re: ANN: GNUstep Windows MSVC Toolchain Scripts

2021-03-21 Thread Richard Stallman
a major setback for our freedom. Nvidia took advantage of it to make a nonfree oompiler based on LLVM, and conceal the processor's instruction set. It was able to keep all the users under its domination because of LLVM. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org

Re: ANN: GNUstep Windows MSVC Toolchain Scripts

2021-03-21 Thread Richard Stallman
atures have also been mentioned. How crucial are those to GNUstep? Can someone identify the missing features that GNUstep absolutely needs? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)