Charles:
> You actually believe that the
> user's "rights" exceed mine as the author? I'm willing to bet that there
> is at least one other person out there in the FSF(E) community that is
> willing to stand-up and publicly challenge that assertion. Anyone?
Here. As an individual, not
> [...] let's consider the advantages of negative campaigning:
> + it increases the reach of a message (due to its emotional nature)
Or not. In Europe we are "shocked", "outraged", "indignados" every
day. We've got enough of that. Negative messages have no effect at
all, in my opinion. Then we,
Carmen Bianca:
>> You are saying that some people deserve
>> your sympathy and support, and other people do not deserve your sympathy
>> and support, by mere virtue of how they were born. I care for
>> _everybody's_ equality and freedom. Surely, I hope, that's a good
>> thing.
Seconded. Thanks
Context: Daniel Pocock writes in his own blog that he will repost at
the next GA meeting a motion that did not pass at the previous GA
meeting. Unchanged, seemingly.
Paul Boddie:
>>> I was surprised that Daniel's motion to document the FSFE's proprietary
>>> dependencies, and to describe ways
This is the question. Or, better, to github or not to github.
Once upon a time, github was a bad hosting site, because the site code
is not free, and we should have rather preferred gitorious. I
did. But then gitorious closed shop and I had to go to the various
projects (hosted elsewhere) that
> Using Mercurial instead of git is also a bit like using another kernel
> instead of Linux. It seems unnecessary to use something else when you already
> have something that works, but it's useful to have working options in case
> you find yourself using a device without a Linux port but with
Thanks to all who replied. Let me comment a little on these
recomendations, suggested by Bastien:
>>https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html
>>https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria.en.html
To which Bernhard (and Sandro) noted:
> Not taking new developments into
> On the german list someone came up with the eeePC. This is from size exactly
> what I am looking for and you can get them second hand at around 50 euro.
I had 3. One was my laptop (with external keyboard), one was my son's
and the other was my wife's desktop (with external kbd/mouse. One
broke
Hello.
I don't think FSFE should provide coding standard: everybody is
already doing that. Some coding standard make no sense, some are ugly,
some are good; you only need to choose yours -- or be forced by your
employer.
The problem your describe is that of bashisms. I agree we should use
Paul Boddie:
>> [...]
Bernhard Reiter
> [...]
> Hope it is helpful to see why most of your writings do not convince
> me and they are often not specific enough to be able to answer them
> without a lot of time and research.
On the other hand, I find Paul's posts always enlighting. I do not
> I'm curious to hear what you think about this topic.
In my opinion it is a serious problem. Not only about banks: everybody
and everything is willing to install trojan horses in our telephones.
And the telephone is becoming a bad SPoF -- but most users don't care
because everything is backed-up
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