Em 24-02-2010 10:16, Dave Neary escreveu:
Richard Stallman wrote:
Software freedom is a means to furthering our vision of providing
technology to all, regardless of means, physical and technical
capability or culture.
Freedom can lead to more available technology, but it is vital
Em 14-12-2009 00:26, Philip Van Hoof escreveu:
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 13:34 +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
Em 13-12-2009 12:44, Philip Van Hoof escreveu:
Richard's claim that proprietary is illegitimate is enforcement. He's
making a philosophic mistake that contradicts his own ideology
Em 13-12-2009 12:44, Philip Van Hoof escreveu:
Richard's claim that proprietary is illegitimate is enforcement. He's
making a philosophic mistake that contradicts his own ideology of free
choice.
Choice of the master is not free choice for a slave. It only looks like
free choice to other
Em 11-12-2009 18:20, Brian Cameron escreveu:
If there is enough people to do a vote, that's great.
My vote: -1
I do not think that people should be discouraged from suggesting rules
for the GNOME community, and a reaction like leaving the GNU community
because Richard made a suggestion could
Em 12-12-2009 11:31, Philip Van Hoof escreveu:
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 09:51 +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
I have a personal blog and when I asked planet.openmoko.org to add my
posts, I gave them the RSS feed corresponding to posts under the tag
OpenMoko.
Perhaps it would be a simpler
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 04:10:39AM +, Bruno Pinho wrote:
This tutorial about GTK+ is 100% translated to portuguese. What do you think?
Can I offer it to my friends so they can study?
thanks,
Hi Bruno,
It seems to be a Standard Portuguese translation, am I right? I just skimmed
the first
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:41:24AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Richard Stallman
The reason this is not so is that Microsoft is trying to spin the apparent
support of GNOME into proof that OOXML is not bad for free software.
Microsoft haven't done so publicly thus far, but the risk
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:37:27PM -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
On Nov 28, 2007 7:15 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't see how the foundation can 'make sure' of anything in this
instance. It can not force developers towards or away from either
spec
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:09:31PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:15:11AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 06:23:57PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:34:54PM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
and I hope
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:03:38PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
I read http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/05/gnome-mono-yelp/ with
great concern.
(...)
However, making GNOME depend on Mono is running a grave risk, and a
grave mistake. If the article accurately describes the situation, I
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:22:23PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Richard Stallman
I read http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/05/gnome-mono-yelp/ with great
concern.
Unfortunately, the authors of that website are obstinate in their
indifference to the truth, and do not serve the
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:15:34AM +, Bastien Nocera wrote:
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 20:03 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
I read http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/05/gnome-mono-yelp/ with
great concern.
snip usual rant
Yelp has had an optional Beagle dependency for at least 2 years. It's
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 05:40:47AM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:25:30AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:09:31PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
If you (or anyone else) is interested talk to the board. That
is all it takes
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:04:14PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Microsoft isn't defending OOXML under the terms defined by ISO.
So we should be as grubby and corrupt as them?
No, we simply shouldn't be lax or complacent with a convicted entity who
has
Hello,
One question to candidates:
Wil you promote the Foundation's participation on the reviewing
of ODF?
I'm sure it won't be for lack of a sponsor, but I think it is much more
important to the Free Software world to have a true Open Standard for
office documents, regardless
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 06:23:57PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:34:54PM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
Hello,
One question to candidates:
Wil you promote the Foundation's participation on the reviewing
of ODF?
I'm sure it won't
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:16:48AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=jamie
I can see MS spinning this to their advantage and I believe playing safe
here would be better for us in the short term
Thing is, Microsoft haven't spun it to their advantage. They've mentioned
that Gnumeric is
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 02:02:49AM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:44:52AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
Don't cry about people who criticize the Foundation's unconditional
support for OOXML, you're pointing guns at your own feet (and in fact
just took another
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 09:37:07AM -0600, George Kraft wrote:
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 03:23 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 14:45 -0600, George Kraft wrote:
Affl: none
Bio: http://live.gnome.org/GeorgeKraft
Hi George,
Great to see you running. So, you are
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 06:35:50PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
what you value about GNOME. To put it in a clunky but simple way, if GNOME
is People, vote for the people who are GNOME.
Dear god... I didn't know GNOME was made of old people who had assisted
death in order to make canned food! Quick,
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:32:52AM -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
OOXML is going to be the defacto standard whether we like it or not.
To pretend otherwise is to deny that the sun will rise in the East
tomorrow.
I'm not so sure...
http://www.google.com/search?q=filetype%3Aodt = almost 100.000 hits
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:31:20AM -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
Spreadsheets are probably much easier to support, since they have a much
more structured data (fixed table spaces, namely).
Spoken like a non-spreadsheet user. My experience suggests exactly
the opposite. Users are a lot more
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 06:19:23AM -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
Option 3 is useful only if we can veto (or organize a veto, or a stall) of
the OOXML progress toward being a standard. The current participation is
not of that manner.
I have a significant problem with the ethics of that.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 04:18:38PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 10:19 +0100, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
I think that The GNOME participating in OOXML lends it a credibility
it does not deserve. Joining ECMA TC45 would be like joining of the
political party you dislike
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 04:14:11PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 08:30 +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
Nonsese, says you. I had direct access to Microsoft representatives as
well, and even a Microsoft expert. Microsoft decided to spend their
money and time
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:06:42PM -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:30:43AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:56:31PM -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 02:55:07PM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Tue, Oct 30
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:00:58AM -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
2) OOX is a file format that is in use, and we will have to interact
with it. The opportunity to improve the spec and have MS answer
questions and clarify necessary details should not be wasted.
Microsoft has done it's very
endorsement ODF.
Christian
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 21:34 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 03:37:06PM -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
Hello,
Also, why do you say the format is open? Can you tell me how Word95
does
auto-space
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 05:58:34PM +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 20:22 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
Also, why do you say the format is open? Can you tell me how Word95 does
auto-space ?
Can you tell me how ODF lays out paragraphs or does line-breaking
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 03:37:06PM -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
Hello,
Also, why do you say the format is open? Can you tell me how Word95 does
auto-space ?
Can you tell me how ODF lays out paragraphs or does line-breaking or
wraps text to shaped embedded objects or ... ?
Hi,
It is my non-lawyer point of view that the Microsoft OSP is absolutely
irrelevant and that in the soon to be EU law may actually be a complete
red herring, since it may soon be the case that you don't have to be the
owner of patents to make the authorites do the enforcement.
Also, why do you
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:44:40AM -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
The problem is that the above url is far from being truthful. You do
not have to go too far to find problems with it, starting with the
discussion that we were having on this forum regarding the Microsoft OSP
patent
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 03:06:45PM -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
Fully irrelevant, since in one case it's mere workload, and in the other
case it's double the workload + restricted information + mathmatical and
date errors.
We need to implement support for the date issue if we want to be
Hi Michael,
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 11:03:31AM +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:
AFAICS - Standards may be open or closed, but Free software will
eventually support them all.
I think this is naïve since even though they may be eventually
supported, they might not be used at all in business due
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 04:47:23PM -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
Here in Portugal, in the OOXML fake-standard debate, the position of
Free Softwar activists has been that it's impossible to fully implement,
or might even be downright illegal to do it independently, closed formats.
Well,
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 07:09:29PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
Here in Portugal, in the OOXML fake-standard debate, the position of
Free Softwar activists has been that it's impossible to fully implement,
Yes. The spec has 6000 pages, and that isn't even the complete spec,
since
Sáb, 2006-11-25 às 22:51 +, Joachim Noreiko escreveu:
Freedoms that you can't exercise are meaningless.
This doesn't stand to reality:
I'm not a journalist, yet freedom of press is not meaningless!
Freedom for you to study and adapt the code doesn't mean you have to do
it your self,
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 09:37 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
Luckily, I don't believe any of the candidates share your ridiculous
extremist self-belief.
How badly dressed you are... says the naked to the undressed.
Your posts reflect an anti-ness that's borderline religious.
Rui
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On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 09:42 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
In all of this discussion about whether they are third-party
developers or independant software developers, I think people have
missed the important point.
That point is that we need to encourage traditional independant
software
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 14:55 +, Alan Horkan wrote:
We can't solve the problem by denying it.
No one is denying the power of words but matters of linguistics are
distracting from more important issues (like the need for clear
information and heading off patent threats).
Actually, the
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