What I took from that is that the freedom to modify your computing
environment is only meaningful in the first degree to programmers.
And if GNOME continues to bury all the configuration in secret corners
without a UI, and even the basic stuff only by an add on (tweak tool)
you'll continue to
digress). The goal we should be aiming for is freedom for all computer
users, and like it or not, the majority of computer uses in the next 5
years will be on phones and tablets.
To pretend otherwise and focus on PC-style devices is trying to gain
traction in a shrinking market, which
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:33:26 +
Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote:
hi;
On 28 November 2012 11:02, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote:
What I took from that is that the freedom to modify your computing
environment is only meaningful in the first degree to programmers
Lets be intellectually honest - a command line client editor is *NOT*
user-friendly.
I don't agree at all with this assessment: it depends entirely on the
audience it is targeting.
If the goal is freedom then presumably the goal is freedom for all not
freedom for the special elite who
Your TV allows that:
http://prolost.com/blog/2011/3/28/your-new-tv-ruins-movies.html
I don't think we want to compare GNOME to TVs with awful UIs.
There is nothing awful about the TV UI. Look at the facts. The problem
with TV settings is the same as the benchmarketing game in computing - it
This is especially true given that there is NO tablet that can run a
completely free operating system. Only desktop and laptop machines
This is not quite true. The options are very limited and in some cases
you cannot use all the hardware (often the 3D acceleration) but there are
a few such
Actually I think Richard made a really helpful suggestion - a screen
built in to the desktop that explains the goals. Can the desktop by
default at least have such a document on it for people to read?
One place to put it is part of an introductory first run tutorial which
also explains things
What has changed since the initial GNOME 3 release and now ?
The software rendering in Mesa improved dramatically and also has some
limited ability to use GEM to optimise data paths on certain cards.
Is gnome-shell now optimized and usable on said, older hardware ?
Some of the problem
I suspect the most likely sub-domain to be read via Readability is
blogs.gnome.org, which would raise the question of whether it's right
for the Gnome Foundation to accept the money from people reading
Foundation-hosted blog posts. I think it's probably reasonable, but I'm
just one person
I would be surprised if the Gnome Foundation had legal authority and
ownership rights to authorise any redesign of such material as it isn't
the rightsholder in question.
Well, we are reformating and republishing already. How's that different?
Just wondering.
People asked to have their
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:22:14 -0500
Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 13:45, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote:
People asked to have their blogs included on it and placed them on
it by choice. It's under CC-NC licensing (*). So they've agreed to NC
I'm not the world's foremost expert in trademark law but I am a lawyer and
have worked in this area in my tenure at the Software Freedom Law Center.
The language that I proposed was reviewed in other contexts by other
lawyers at SFLC as well as lawyers at various companies that were involved
This section is quite broad, and is only modified by the somewhat vague
Fair Use section. Unfortunately, if taken literally, it would prevent
The Fair Use section has another problem btw when someone is looking at
this. Fair Use has no meaning in most legal systems outside the USA.
I'm
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:25:17 +0100
Dodji Seketeli do...@seketeli.org wrote:
Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org a écrit:
(I changed the Subject because I recommend that we not describe
potentially useful works of software documentation works as content.
That term denigrates the works.
See
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:35:13 -0700
C.J. Adams-Collier KF7BMP c...@colliertech.org wrote:
I'm raising a red flag:
W: Failed to fetch
http://download.meego.com/live/devel:/tools:/sdk:/host/${distribution}/Sources.gz
404 Not Found
Seems to work for me.
${distribution} in the URL looks
minorities have not had a large role in free software community. So that
joke might have worked with a lot of people back then but not so much now.
Since you're a celebrity people are willing to probably overlook such
things that might normally offend them. Of course the opposite is true as
It would be better if GNOME defined a precise set of rules (ie. don't
mention religion). As for the hazy areas, common sense is a better
That is hardly a precise rule. I think quite a few people would describe
certain posters attitude to the letters G N and U as 'religion'.
The social sciences
That's completely irrelevant. Do we need to write a list of no bag
stealing, no puppy strangling etc.? Sexual assaults are supposed to
be dealt with using law enforcement, not speaker guidelines.
Assault is - but where for example would you draw the line given a
speaker appearing in a
In my opinion you solve latency more by making services capable of
pipelining, than by compressing data. And by making clients that make
use of the remote service's pipelining capabilities.
Thats a bit naïve. They two solve totally different problems and it is
dependant upon the behaviour of
sillies :-) Lets not forget some of the low-level sillies found in the
kernel and base-syste, recently: software resume processes that
synchronously read huge chunks of the swap partition to checksum the
disk, single big kernel locks held for all module insertions,
Modules is not showing up
A solution that IMHO has much better chances of success is to
create a free alternative to facebook. However, who is going to do it
and more importantly who is going to pay for this effort? :(
You would have the same problem as taking on ebay or replacing the
internet. The economic value
2. not legitimate; not sanctioned by
law or custom.
I don't see what the fuss is about.
Not sanctioned by custom precisely describes Richard Stallman's belief
that Free Software as a concept does not include considering proprietary
software as acceptable in most cases.
Whether that is true of
1. People speak on their own behalf, not on behalf of GNOME. Unless they
ARE talking on behalf of GNOME (say, board, release team, etc),
On things like the planet that can be addressed by suitable tags and
styling (as could inappropriate content - if there is a 'rant filter'
option or
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:20:22 +0200
Philip Van Hoof pvanh...@gnome.org wrote:
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 21:43 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
Another problem with trying to find an issue here is that, depending on
the point of view, Amazon acted within their own Terms (point iii under
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:41:36 -0400
Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote:
Created some Amazon affiliate accounts in US, UK, Canada and Germany so
tha=
t
Jaap can set up stores and a Firefox widget that will enable people to
direct Amazon referral fees for their purchase to
More specifically, some pixbuf loaders (png and tiff) load the entire
image, and then scale it. This leads to huge memory usage (bug 142428)
loading the image.
Yes - I reported this a a Gnome security problem about eight years ago.
Quite a few gnome apps fed small compressed images explode.
I agree 100% here, just because we're supposed to have an ideology of
free software doesn't mean we should be against using non-free software.
Hell, dreamweaver is an awesome product! This logic extends further that
if we are able to help Expectnation become open source (as a previous
post
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:11:15 +0100
Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:
I just want to put this in perspective: the foundation has $200,000 in
the bank, with guaranteed income of $100,000 a year approx. One employee
costs at least $70,000 per year, and depending on the role
With Novell's customers getting exclusive patent protection for mono, it
seems unfair for everyone else who have a heightened risk.
Thats something to take up with the FSF. The implementation of the GPLv3
is badly flawed by allowing that activity to continue. The original act
was Novell's, but
will believe it. Not a great way to encourage respectful discussion on this
list,
Nor is putting in strange references to ultimatums off private lists.
That makes it very hard to follow, so thanks for explaining where it came
from.
As for trashing you, it seems any comment about the boards
I pointed out behaviour that I thought was inappropriate and unproductive.
So did I ...
I suggest you take a gander at the Code of Conduct
So do I ...
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So, yes, I totally understand your position, but I think that falling back
on unsympathetic, dramatic criticism of the Board and ultimatums is not a
productive way of fixing the problem.
unsympathetic, dramatic criticism would be telling it as it is
of the Board would be blaming Jeff
Competing is a good thing, and in my opinion it's good that Microsoft
competes with us. This keeps us sharp and focused.
If you were sharp and focussed nobody would have joined anything in a way
Microsoft could twist.
Competition has never been a bad thing for mankind. In fact has it been
I look forward to further aggravated public shaming of past incompetencies,
especially ones so obvious in hindsight, as it always improves motivation
So you can do PR some of the time then Jeff
aggravated public shaming of past incompetencies
I have another word for that newspeak ...
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:53:28 +0200
Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Quim Gil wrote:
What happens when you get less than 7 people with votes?
I don't understand - you mean if there are fewer than 7 candidates?
Constitutional crisis, I suppose... everyone's elected, and they
Michael throughout this discussion belong anywhere. Miguel and Michael
have each done more for free software than most of us can even hope to
aspire to
That doesn't mean what they are doing now is good for free software. Just
ask Mr Raymond ;)
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* The validity of the statement that we can be stopped from
implementing OOXML: Has a lawyer weighted into whether the
patent grants in the Microsoft OSP are not sufficient? All I
have seen so far are opinions from advocates, with no legal
background.
Obviously to make it official it has to be a Board Member the one signing it.
I hope someone can give me a hand!
I can't sign it but some comments from things learned in the past
His flight to Spain and United Kingdom, his accommodation and other
{the United Kingdom}
His flights to Spain,
But one thing is for sure - the travel costs for attendees is something
which will definitely be taken into account, and in general that will
exclude anything outside North America and Europe.
That depends upon the time of year and location. The bit of North
America which is civilised to
Ar Sad, 2006-10-21 am 18:01 +0200, ysgrifennodd Quim Gil:
compatible with several operative systems, including GNU/Linux (commonly
You've mis-spelled correctly as commonly and ignored the view of the
owners of the Linux kernel and the Linux mark. Unfortunate.
Can I urge translators to translate
Ar Sad, 2006-08-05 am 19:37 +0300, ysgrifennodd Yavor Doganov:
combination. We include Linux in the name because it is an
essential component of the system and the Linux developers deserve
credit for their work. The GNU Project's policy was always to point
out that Linux is a seperate
Ar Gwe, 2006-08-04 am 23:19 +0300, ysgrifennodd Yavor Doganov:
This issue was first brought at GTP; I was substituting Linux with
GNU/Linux in my translations and our team leader asked for a general
solution on the -i18n list. Christian Rose, one of the GTP
For the benefit of that meeting I'd
Ar Sad, 2006-08-05 am 00:00 +0300, ysgrifennodd Yavor Doganov:
However, I'm not really familiar with Trademark Law, but if this is a
really a problem, I suggest to call the system GNU. I'm using all
GNU variants so I call the system GNU in 99.99% of the cases,
when I refer to something
On Iau, 2006-06-01 at 14:33 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
Hmm, how about people working together? It just seems that the person who
most most obviously wants this should be the person trying to make it
happen.
I'd be wary of pursuing just the women in GNOME issue, because many of
the same
On Iau, 2006-05-18 at 22:04 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
The Linux Standards Base is a plan to develop a specification for
the GNU system. Not, in this case, for the GNU/Linux combination,
No Richard, it is not. The Linux Standards Base produces specification
documents. The implementation of
On Sul, 2006-05-14 at 19:52 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
Since lawyers talk .doc, and use revision control to track changes to the
documents, that's what we ge too.
Disappointing. I hope the foundation will reconsider that decision and
post its documents in open formats as well.
Alan
On Llu, 2006-05-15 at 15:25 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
I can certainly post a copy in ODT later in the week which gets converted into
.doc every time we need to go to the lawyers... I won't always have the time
to
do it promptly, though.
I will note that there are several high-quality free
On Llu, 2006-05-15 at 10:19 -0400, Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
Stick to your open formats argument; it serves you better. ODT makes
no guarantees that the documents will look the same across renderers
or platforms. If the apps used exactly the same layout algorithms with
the same fonts, ligature
On Sad, 2005-12-17 at 11:32 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
IANAL (yet), but... under US trademark law (and most European
trademark law, as I understand it) basically all users of the mark
must ask us for permission before use. We cannot adopt a permission
scheme which allows any use of the logo
Opportunities:
* no one else is really effectively reaching out to governments in
most of the world, talking specifically about free software desktops
as either a tool for them to use, or as a means of national economic
empowerment
* continue to see large deployments and corporate interest
On Llu, 2005-09-12 at 17:28 +0200, Anne Østergaard wrote:
Interest from others in building desktop conferences up (eg with OLS)
Alan do you mean OttawaLinuxSymposium?
The very same but with spaces between the words (TooMuchWikiIsBadForYou)
I think desktop conferences are coming up soon
On Sul, 2005-09-11 at 12:57 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
Indeed. But the article discusses how magazines cannot
distribute RHEL.
RHEL is a support and service arrangement with attached product, so no a
magazine could never distribute it. Centos is just code and they do
Funnier is that you
That's what it says. I believe that we are going to handle logo
modifications on a case-by-case basis. Please let us know if you want to
use a modified logo, and as long as it's a reasonable usage, there will
be no problem.
The logo has repeatedly been supplied as part of official GNOME
On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 15:43, Calum Benson wrote:
they're Based on the OpenOffice.org project. No joy as yet
unfortunately, but we do at least retain the About GNOME dialog and
the contributor list.
This is actually one issue that has come up with requests for the GPL
revisions - to have
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