Re: Project to stimulate Edu-FLOSS development

2017-01-08 Thread Bastien Guerry
Hi Charles, I find the whole idea very interesting, thanks for sharing it. At OLPC France (a grassroots organization, born in 2008 after I spent some time working for OLPC), we are developing http://sugarizer.org It is a rewrite of the Sugar environment (https://sugarlabs.org) in HTML and

Re: Is it acceptable to use proprietary software (platforms) to promote software freedom?

2017-08-14 Thread Bastien Guerry
Here is my position, stated as "logically" as possible. My premisses are these: A. FSFE discourages people to use FB because FB TOS are unfair. B. Trading the number of people you can reach out against the consistency of your behavior (aligning your moral with your discourse) is not a

Re: Is it acceptable to use proprietary software (platforms) to promote software freedom?

2017-08-14 Thread Bastien Guerry
Hi Mat, please don’t take this personnally: I don’t feel like discussing this in further details. Thanks, -- Bastien ___ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion

Re: Free Software security vulnerabilities: Heartbleed and other case studies?

2017-07-26 Thread Bastien Guerry
Hi Hugo, Hugo Roy writes: > Any case studies on how the world dealt to react quickly and update > systems in reponse to Heartbleed for instance? I remember blackduck had some reports comparing FLOSS/non-FLOSS with respect to their security, I found this, but I’m sure there are

Re: Is it acceptable to use proprietary software (platforms) to promote software freedom?

2017-06-22 Thread Bastien Guerry
(I'm just a member of this list, not a member of the FSFE, which goals I strongly support though.) Erik Albers writes: > In our European core team we are having a lively discussion now about the pros > and cons of using proprietary software platforms like Facebook, Meetup, >