Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-09-03 Thread Richard Stallman
to use that here? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org

Re: [guadec-list] Registration for GUADEC 2019 is now open!

2019-07-18 Thread Richard Stallman
ion went away. Is that > on purpose? If you have registration at no charge, how about calling it "gratis", to help people recognize the difference between that and free/libre? This is a small change, it is clear, and it helps make the distinction clear too. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free

Re: Re: GNOME ASIA logo competition

2019-07-07 Thread Richard Stallman
ot hard to put the logos in a page of ordinary HTML. We're going to do this, so as to be helpful. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) _

Re: Re: GNOME ASIA logo competition

2019-07-07 Thread Richard Stallman
, since I don't have an account. Likewise, I can't test submitting a set of numbers of logos. Can someone please test that, with LibreJS active? If that doesn't work, how should we tell people to votd after they see our page of logos? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https:

Re: GNOME ASIA logo competition

2019-07-05 Thread Richard Stallman
go _there_." It won't be elegant but it will do the job. It won't introduce any divergence from the upstream models -- it will have no relation to them. Freedom isn't gratis -- sometimes it takes work. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://g

Re: GNOME ASIA logo competition

2019-07-02 Thread Richard Stallman
ch specific license. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.o

Re: GNOME ASIA logo competition

2019-07-02 Thread Richard Stallman
is how LibreJS does it. See https://gnu.org/software/librejs/free-your-javascript.html. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) ___ foundatio

Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2019: revamped timeline

2019-05-27 Thread Richard Stallman
the board by first come, first served. I hope that at least 11 people will run. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) ___ foundation-list mailing

Re: Minutes of the Foundation Board, 22nd May

2018-05-26 Thread Richard Stallman
development decisions. If hardly any, then there is no reason to object to deleting them. If they are important, then we should fight deleting them. Perhaps it is worth consulting a US lawyer about whether GNOME has to fear a Canadian censorship law. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Soft

Re: Proposal for an Events Code of Conduct and Policy Referendum

2018-04-15 Thread Richard Stallman
code of conduct, and one is the Abstractions code of conduct. The former is general; the latter is a lot more concrete. (Sorry, I don't have URLs.) -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org

Re: Publishing the hackfest reports

2017-12-09 Thread Richard Stallman
n look for a method of posting the photos that doesn't have the problem. I sent you, off the list, a suggestion. -- 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://stal

Re: Publishing the hackfest reports

2017-12-08 Thread Richard Stallman
this off the list, and include Nuritzi? -- 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. ___ founda

Publishing the hackfest reports

2017-12-07 Thread Richard Stallman
Teaching ourselves to attend to this issue when it arises will make us more effective defenders of free software. -- 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://st

Re: Maps' Mapbox free coupon is soon to expire

2017-11-10 Thread Richard Stallman
What does the coupon give access to? How how do we use it? Does this involve a proprietary program? -- 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

Re: GNOME 3.26 Release Parties

2017-09-16 Thread Richard Stallman
It functions in Firefox. A new version of LibreJS, which is much faster and uses WebExtensions, will be released as soon as WebExtensions supports a certain new feature. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype:

Re: GNOME 3.26 Release Parties

2017-09-15 Thread Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman

Re: GNOME 3.26 Release Parties

2017-09-13 Thread Richard Stallman
ink > the Foundation should use it. What does that do? Is it free software? -- 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. ___ foun

Re: Preliminary Results - GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Elections 2017

2017-06-14 Thread Richard Stallman
allots. I am not surprised that so few voted. Can anyone think of a way to encourage more candidates? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skyp

Re: The Goal of Gnome

2017-04-10 Thread Richard Stallman
if it did not contain a file navigator, system control panels, etc. Naturally, Gnome has them. However, it wouldn't make sense for non-graphic, non-desktop programs to be included in Gnome. It would be more natural to classify them elsewhere. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software

Re: The Goal of Gnome

2017-02-09 Thread Richard Stallman
be pertinent to discuss here. -- 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. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list

Re: Code of Conduct Adoption Process

2016-09-17 Thread Richard Stallman
won't appear until approved by a moderator. My practical question is, which of those lists _do his messages actually get through to_? I should send my reactions to the lists that his messages actually reach, and not to those his messages do not reach. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free So

Re: Code of Conduct Adoption Process

2016-09-16 Thread Richard Stallman
e list(s). I will certainly stop. Which of these lists is he banned from? Both? -- 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. ___ fou

Re: Code of Conduct Adoption Process

2016-09-16 Thread Richard Stallman
eserve a chance to respond. What is it about this that is wrong? Would you please spell out concretely what actions you are criticizing? What, concretely, are you asking me to do instead? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of

Re: Code of Conduct Adoption Process

2016-09-15 Thread Richard Stallman
wants us to accept without examination: that we should judge proposals based on opinions about the people who worked on them. We should judge proposals based on what they say and their effects, not based on personalities. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org

Re: Code of Conduct Adoption Process

2016-09-15 Thread Richard Stallman
"Lefty" has resumed his old practice of attacking anything that is associated with me, mainly as a way of associating my name with a cloud of vague disapproval. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.

Re: Code of Conduct Adoption Process

2016-09-14 Thread Richard Stallman
Here's a code that I helped write: http://abstractions.io/policies/#code-of-conduct . I tried to avoid vague, subjective rules that could be interpreted in many ways. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2016-05-27 Thread Richard Stallman
isadvantage: we have to compete on a field shaped by the adversary. In effect, we would be competing with one hand tied behind our back. Instead of that, we must do our best to shape the field to favor our intrinsic advantage, respect for users' freedom -- what our proprietary adversaries refuse to try

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2016-05-25 Thread Richard Stallman
ose package systems. -- 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. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org ht

Re: Really professional GNOME videos

2016-03-27 Thread Richard Stallman
mentioned? -- 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. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https

Re: Travel committee disfunctional?

2016-03-19 Thread Richard Stallman
might consider joining the travel committee to help it get its work done. -- 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

Re: Free software streaming

2016-01-09 Thread Richard Stallman
> Hey, you did not react to Nicolas Dufresne's suggestion of using webrtc ? I don't know enough about it to have an opinion. I am provide the advice I mentioned in the form of a URL -- people requested that. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.

Free software streaming

2016-01-08 Thread Richard Stallman
I now have a URL to suggest: https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/free-video-streaming-technology -- 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

Re: [Builder] Developer experience (DX) hackfest 2016

2015-12-30 Thread Richard Stallman
; it could hardly be easier. I thought we were looking for one-way streaming to a lot of people, not for a meeting. But I could have misunderstood that. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See

Re: [Builder] Developer experience (DX) hackfest 2016

2015-12-29 Thread Richard Stallman
Mallory Knodel <mall...@mayfirst.org> says that I can post her name and email address. Please write to her for instructions about free software streaming. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype:

Re: [Builder] Developer experience (DX) hackfest 2016

2015-12-28 Thread Richard Stallman
will ask them for a URL I could post. -- 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. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation

Re: [Builder] Developer experience (DX) hackfest 2016

2015-12-27 Thread Richard Stallman
a way that lets everyone watch with free software, and I know people who would be glad to help you do this. When you want to do streaming, please write to me and I will put you in touch with them. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of

Re: Agenda for board meeting on November 3rd

2015-11-15 Thread Richard Stallman
y systems and their app stores. -- 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. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@

Re: Agenda for board meeting on November 3rd

2015-11-06 Thread Richard Stallman
's true. The program's developers, or others, can put it in the Google store if they wish. My point is that the GNOME Foundation should not do so. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffa

Re: Agenda for board meeting on November 3rd

2015-11-05 Thread Richard Stallman
software, but I don't know for certain. Thus, I think the GNOME Foundation should not do this. When we recommend free software for Android, let's instead recommend fdroid.org as the place to get them. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer

Re: Agenda for board meeting on November 3rd

2015-11-03 Thread Richard Stallman
What do we plan to do with a Google Play account, such that it is an issue for the board? -- 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

Re: User Data Manifesto

2015-08-24 Thread Richard Stallman
use my server, which makes it a decentralized system. -- 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. ___ foundation-list mailing

Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 7th

2015-07-11 Thread Richard Stallman
The joke is on me. I naively assumed they must be asking for GNOME support. -- 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

Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 7th

2015-07-09 Thread Richard Stallman
. Is there anything we should do with it? -- 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. ___ foundation-list mailing list

Re: Privacy of information sent to the Travel Committee (was: GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 Travel Subsidy application is Open)

2015-07-01 Thread Richard Stallman
Another problem with Google Drive requires running a nonfree Javascript program. If you do this privately, you affect only yourself, but I hope GNOME won't use Google Drive for dealings with the public. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-06-07 Thread Richard Stallman
camps. They wish to boost the open source camp at the expense of the free software movement, so they say only open source. When we have an opportunity to strengthen the free software movement, we should take advantage of it -- not be neutral. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-06-06 Thread Richard Stallman
. If you want to mention both camps, Free/Libre and Open Source Software is always the best way to do it. See http://gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html for the reasons why. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-06-06 Thread Richard Stallman
Do any other candidates want to state plans to intentionally spread the ideas of the free software movement? -- 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

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-06-01 Thread Richard Stallman
? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman

Re: Orca Project - forwarding a message

2015-06-01 Thread Richard Stallman
If those five links point to tweets, they must be rather short. How about including the text of the tweets in your message, rather than only links to them? PS. Thanks for contributing to Orca; it is an important project. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-06-01 Thread Richard Stallman
as a supporter of open source, and has no idea that it is entirely false. I am going to ask the site editors to correct the article, if I can find a way to reach them. I have to do this often. With your help, we can inform people that free software is something else. -- Dr Richard Stallman President

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-31 Thread Richard Stallman
conveying a bad message to them. See http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-29 Thread Richard Stallman
. That is different from use of GNOME. Thus, I ask, how would you piggy-back spreading the ideas of free software onto GNOME and the promotion of GNOME? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-29 Thread Richard Stallman
in assuming that only applies to political parties in the USA, then? I don't know -- for that you should check with a lawyer. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-28 Thread Richard Stallman
can do above and beyond being useful free software which does fall within GNOME’s remit, though. The GNOME Foundation's activities will naturally focus on promoting GNOME; in the course of those activities, it can promote the free software ideas too, in many ways. -- Dr Richard Stallman

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-28 Thread Richard Stallman
this aspect of our work wherever possible. This is a useful avenue, if we can see a way for GNOME to advance it. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-28 Thread Richard Stallman
form of positive influence. But we can only occasionally achieve that much. Short of that, what kind of change would be positive? To be truly positive, it ought to be positive for users' freedom. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-27 Thread Richard Stallman
software and users' freedom, over and above what GNOME contributes by being useful free software? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html

Questions for candidates

2015-05-26 Thread Richard Stallman
I'd like to ask the candidates, how do you think GNOME should contribute more to the advance of free software and users' freedom in general (in addition to being useful free software). -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org

Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates

2015-05-24 Thread Richard Stallman
. It is likely be a very big debate and likely to drown out discussion with the candidates. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html

Please run for director!

2015-05-05 Thread Richard Stallman
barely outnumber the seats on the board, the election is little more than a formality. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html

Re: You logo

2015-04-05 Thread Richard Stallman
done so, this side-discussion would have been over so fast they'd hardly have noticed it. Don't worry about them -- they will probably come back. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org

Re: You logo

2015-04-04 Thread Richard Stallman
refer to this operating system as GNU/Linux. See http://gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html. Please respond to me off the list if you would like more explanation. I think that will deal with the sub-issue quickly and without disputes, and nothing will be derailed either. -- Dr Richard Stallman

Re: You logo

2015-04-04 Thread Richard Stallman
Fedora is a GNU/Linux distribution, I thought it's a GNU/Linux/xorg/texmf/PHP/Perl/Python/HarfBuzz/... distribution. See http://gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#many. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org

Re: Links that recommend running nonfree JS code.

2015-01-07 Thread Richard Stallman
in on Facebook. -- 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. ___ foundation-list mailing

Re: Linking to non-free websites from gnome.org

2015-01-07 Thread Richard Stallman
...@hergert.me to make alternate arrangements. -- 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: Linking to non-free websites from gnome.org

2015-01-07 Thread Richard Stallman
is so specific, it is ethically simple -- it's wrong to recommend the operation if the operation requires running nonfree software (including JS code). -- 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

Links that recommend running nonfree JS code.

2015-01-07 Thread Richard Stallman
recall any others besides this one? -- 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: Linking to non-free websites from gnome.org

2015-01-06 Thread Richard Stallman
visitors to run nonfree software in order to use the site to do the job in question (in this case, to donate). If a web site runs nonfree software internally, that doesn't affect the site's visitors, so we have no reason to concern ourselves with that. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software

Re: Linking to non-free websites from gnome.org

2015-01-06 Thread Richard Stallman
the site. It says that such use of the site is something we approve of. If such use of the site requires running nonfree softare on your machine, we shouldn't say we approve of that. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org

Re: Linking to non-free websites from gnome.org

2015-01-06 Thread Richard Stallman
of nonfree software is different in nature from endorsement and can arise even in the absence of an endorsement. I agree that GNOME should study the question of endorsements and when to make them, but that's a different issue. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51

Re: Linking to non-free websites from gnome.org

2015-01-06 Thread Richard Stallman
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. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list

Re: Linking to non-free websites from gnome.org

2015-01-06 Thread Richard Stallman
is done. Is the continued existence of the page https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/richard-stallman-s-air-ticket-to-speak-in-south-africa/x/8947753 giving people the wrong idea? If so, I will ask the people who invited me to try to get rid of the page or add a note to it. -- Dr Richard Stallman

Re: Linking to non-free websites from gnome.org

2015-01-06 Thread Richard Stallman
money that way if they don't want to run nonfree JS code? -- 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: Builder crowdsourcing banner on PGO

2015-01-03 Thread Richard Stallman
enter your card number into Indiegogo. Thus, for several reasons, it isn't a pertinent issue for this campaign. We need not take up that tangent. Nonfree Javascript, by contrast, is a big issue and a serious problem. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston

Re: Linking to non-free websites from gnome.org

2015-01-03 Thread Richard Stallman
to that. It's not a lot of work, and it enables us to promote funding for Builder coherently with our principles. -- 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

Re: Builder crowdsourcing banner on PGO

2015-01-03 Thread Richard Stallman
/philosophy/javascript-trap.html. -- 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: Builder crowdsourcing banner on PGO

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Stallman
overall goal as a byproduct. -- 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: Builder crowdsourcing banner on PGO

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Stallman
of Javascript. You can verify this by accessing the site using GNU IceCat, or Firefox with LibreJS enabled. -- 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

Re: Builder crowdsourcing banner on PGO

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Stallman
else already did so.) -- 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. ___ foundation

Re: Builder crowdsourcing banner on PGO

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Stallman
, but it would be better for us to post the bitcoin address directly and skip Indiegogo. Intermediate: we could mention Indiegogo and ask people to please use the bitcoin address rather than donating thru Indiegogo. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA

Re: Builder crowdsourcing banner on PGO

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Stallman
that software, but we don't need to make a fuss about it. -- 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

Repeated apology

2014-10-15 Thread Richard Stallman
again, but this time I waited for the next batch to say so, so this will only go out once. -- 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

Message repeated due to mail bug

2014-10-13 Thread Richard Stallman
I use for mailing. Sorry. It should not happen again. -- 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

Message repeated due to mail bug

2014-10-13 Thread Richard Stallman
I use for mailing. Sorry. It should not happen again. -- 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: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Stallman
. Isn't it the errors that deserve your resentment, rather than their corrections? If you reinterpret the situation, seeing the repeated errors as causing a real problem and my corrections as trying to prevent that problem, you might feel glad to see them corrected. -- Dr Richard Stallman

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Stallman
. Isn't it the errors that deserve your resentment, rather than their corrections? If you reinterpret the situation, seeing the repeated errors as causing a real problem and my corrections as trying to prevent that problem, you might feel glad to see them corrected. -- Dr Richard Stallman

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Stallman
. Isn't it the errors that deserve your resentment, rather than their corrections? If you reinterpret the situation, seeing the repeated errors as causing a real problem and my corrections as trying to prevent that problem, you might feel glad to see them corrected. -- Dr Richard Stallman

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Stallman
. Isn't it the errors that deserve your resentment, rather than their corrections? If you reinterpret the situation, seeing the repeated errors as causing a real problem and my corrections as trying to prevent that problem, you might feel glad to see them corrected. -- Dr Richard Stallman

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Stallman
. Isn't it the errors that deserve your resentment, rather than their corrections? If you reinterpret the situation, seeing the repeated errors as causing a real problem and my corrections as trying to prevent that problem, you might feel glad to see them corrected. -- Dr Richard Stallman

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-02 Thread Richard Stallman
the pertinent facts about it? -- 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: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-01 Thread Richard Stallman
that, but GNOME in particular was started to protect users from a specific threat to their freedom (nonfree Qt). So freedom is at the heart of GNOME and should never be forgotten. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-09-30 Thread Richard Stallman
, but if FreedomSponsors publishes their server software as free software, that is a nice contribution to the community. Perhaps we should choose them instead in order to give them a boost -- provided it's ok on the crucial ethical questions stated above. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-09-29 Thread Richard Stallman
of the functionality. See http://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html. Does Bountysource work without nonfree JS? I don't know, but one can't presume that. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way

Re: AUS

2014-09-21 Thread Richard Stallman
problems. See http://gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.html. -- 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: GUADEC registration

2014-08-27 Thread Richard Stallman
, could you share it? Eben Moglen seemed to think there was no problem, but since the GNOME Foundation is his client, it should consult him directly. -- 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

Re: GUADEC registration

2014-08-27 Thread Richard Stallman
payment in bitcoin. Does the GNOME Foundation accept payment for GUADEC this way? If not, could it do so? -- 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

Re: Mission Statement

2014-08-07 Thread Richard Stallman
on the same attitude that human rights are important. The slogan open source was launched so as to reject that attitude. It's not a good fit for OPW or for GNOME. -- 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

Re: Mission Statement

2014-08-07 Thread Richard Stallman
design a bot smart enough to find and express new specific ethical points, such as highlighting the similarity in values between the free software movement and OPW, I would be glad to let the bot take over from me. I have a lot of other work to do. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software

Re: GUADEC registration

2014-07-23 Thread Richard Stallman
evidence there is of this. I will also ask Karen. -- 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: GUADEC registration

2014-07-22 Thread Richard Stallman
investigated more and publicized more. Can someone put me in touch with those accountants and lawyers? In the mean time, it would be good to urge people to pay cash so as not to identify themselves. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org

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