Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-09-03 Thread Richard Stallman
le 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.gnom

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

2019-07-18 Thread Richard Stallman
ay. 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,

Re: Re: GNOME ASIA logo competition

2019-07-07 Thread Richard Stallman
u recognize, it is not 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
test logging in, 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, Fr

Re: GNOME ASIA logo competition

2019-07-05 Thread Richard Stallman
s do not appear, 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,

Re: GNOME ASIA logo competition

2019-07-02 Thread Richard Stallman
ld say which 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://ma

Re: GNOME ASIA logo competition

2019-07-02 Thread Richard Stallman
that 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) ___ foun

Re: GNOME ASIA logo competition

2019-07-01 Thread Richard Stallman
. Would you please post them so that they can be seen in the Free World? Please do not make running a nonfree program a precondition for participating in some Gnome activities. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet H

Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2019: revamped timeline

2019-05-27 Thread Richard Stallman
l 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 ma

Re: Minutes of the Foundation Board, 22nd May

2018-05-26 Thread Richard Stallman
standing of the 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 Presi

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

2018-04-15 Thread Richard Stallman
lanet 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://internethall

Re: Publishing the hackfest reports

2017-12-09 Thread Richard Stallman
you could take down that slide show, then 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://internetha

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
at the FSF if that is helpful. 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)

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) S

Re: GNOME 3.26 Release Parties

2017-09-15 Thread Richard Stallman
. -- 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://mail.gnome.o

Re: GNOME 3.26 Release Parties

2017-09-13 Thread Richard Stallman
think > 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. __

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

2017-06-14 Thread Richard Stallman
gt; ballots. 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

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2017 - Candidates

2017-05-26 Thread Richard Stallman
It is not a good thing to have no real choice of candidates. Can we do something to encourage more people to run? If it is not possible this time, what about next time? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org

Re: The Goal of Gnome

2017-04-10 Thread Richard Stallman
tiful 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, Fre

Re: The Goal of Gnome

2017-02-09 Thread Richard Stallman
might 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

Re: Code of Conduct Adoption Process

2016-09-17 Thread Richard Stallman
is posts > 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 Stallma

Re: Code of Conduct Adoption Process

2016-09-16 Thread Richard Stallman
t(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
erve 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
se that he 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 Foundatio

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.org)

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 (internethalloffam

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2016-05-27 Thread Richard Stallman
ves at a disadvantage: 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 advers

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2016-05-25 Thread Richard Stallman
ute applications and GNOME works with those 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 m

If you are thinking of running for the board, please run!

2016-05-17 Thread Richard Stallman
nd in your candidacy now! Please don't hold back because "there are enough candidates" if there are as many as will fill up the board. The idea is that the members should have a real choice, and that calls for a lot more candidates than there are slots. -- Dr Richard Stallman Pres

Re: Really professional GNOME videos

2016-03-27 Thread Richard Stallman
stros 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

Re: Travel committee disfunctional?

2016-03-19 Thread Richard Stallman
e movement 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/

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

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
n URL; 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

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

2015-12-29 Thread Richard Stallman
uation very much, because we already know that the other "solution" is not a valid solution at all. A nonfree program isn't a solution, it's the problem. See http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foun

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

2015-12-29 Thread Richard Stallman
Mallory Knodel 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: No way! See stallman.org

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

2015-12-28 Thread Richard Stallman
ungrateful and nonconstructive. I 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. ___ foun

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 Ha

Re: Agenda for board meeting on November 3rd

2015-11-15 Thread Richard Stallman
ietary 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-

Re: Agenda for board meeting on November 3rd

2015-11-06 Thread Richard Stallman
hat installed. That'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 H

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 Hal

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
ur server, and I should 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. ___

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
ns it probably won't be free. 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. ___

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

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-06-07 Thread Richard Stallman
try to mention both 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

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-06-06 Thread Richard Stallman
, and Open Source Software", if you feel that > that would more fully acknowledge Free Software. 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 Richa

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
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, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.

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
ok at it privately and give me feedback? -- 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@g

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-31 Thread Richard Stallman
acking visitors is direct mistreatment of them -- which is worse than merely 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 US

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-29 Thread Richard Stallman
he ideas of free software. 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.g

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-29 Thread Richard Stallman
rect about this. Am I right 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

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-28 Thread Richard Stallman
be pretty open to hearing any ideas on what we 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

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-28 Thread Richard Stallman
iggest 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 M

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-28 Thread Richard Stallman
support > 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 sta

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-27 Thread Richard Stallman
ce the cause of free 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! Se

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 w

Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates

2015-05-24 Thread Richard Stallman
ction. 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

Please run for director!

2015-05-05 Thread Richard Stallman
dates 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

Re: [OT] Re: You logo

2015-04-08 Thread Richard Stallman
ely others have forgotten it, or had never heard about it. If you start politely reminding people to write "GNOME", when they don't, you'll teach the community to do it. These reminders are necessary, just like reminding people once in a while to write "GNU/Linux" (and

Re: You logo

2015-04-05 Thread Richard Stallman
y had 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! S

Re: You logo

2015-04-04 Thread Richard Stallman
art of the GNU Project, asks you to please 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 not

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.or

Re: You logo

2015-04-03 Thread Richard Stallman
I'd appreciate if you > could pay attention to this one as well. Thank you. I will try to remember. Note that I'm not the only person who has posted messages saying "Gnome". -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 US

Re: You logo

2015-04-03 Thread Richard Stallman
including 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/skype.html. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.g

Re: You logo

2015-04-02 Thread Richard Stallman
://gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html and http://gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html, plus the history in http://gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.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.

Re: Links that recommend running nonfree JS code.

2015-01-08 Thread Richard Stallman
ial cases where the purpose of the link is something else (such as to donate), then it needs to be judged according to that purpose. -- 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-den

Re: Links that recommend running nonfree JS code.

2015-01-07 Thread Richard Stallman
ple to log 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. ___ fo

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

2015-01-07 Thread Richard Stallman
erform a certain kind of operation there. Because the issue 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 Bos

Links that recommend running nonfree JS code.

2015-01-07 Thread Richard Stallman
ntial problem cases occur rarely. Can you 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) softw

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

2015-01-07 Thread Richard Stallman
e that IndieGoGo > requires for those methods, contact christ...@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 (free

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

2015-01-06 Thread Richard Stallman
n their own machines. This issue 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 Presid

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

2015-01-06 Thread Richard Stallman
t about 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.

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

2015-01-06 Thread Richard Stallman
eb site requires 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 Richar

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

2015-01-06 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! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call. ___ foundation-list mailing list fo

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

2015-01-06 Thread Richard Stallman
not give up until the job 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 t

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

2015-01-06 Thread Richard Stallman
, and invite people to send 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.

Re: Builder crowdsourcing banner on PGO

2015-01-03 Thread Richard Stallman
JS code sent by servers, and they control your computing. See http://gnu.org/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! Th

Re: Builder crowdsourcing banner on PGO

2015-01-03 Thread Richard Stallman
ng the chip if you 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 Fo

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

2015-01-03 Thread Richard Stallman
A good solution has already been proposed. You can state a way people can send you money, without running nonfree software, and the banner can point 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 Pres

Re: Builder crowdsourcing banner on PGO

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Stallman
ogo will stop running 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.

Re: Builder crowdsourcing banner on PGO

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Stallman
nded by the idea of > indigogo are able to donate with this way instead. That would partially solve the problem, 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 r

Re: Builder crowdsourcing banner on PGO

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Stallman
er someone 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. ___

Re: Builder crowdsourcing banner on PGO

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Stallman
an achieve the same subgoal (helping Builder) without undermining our 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 (freedo

Re: Builder crowdsourcing banner on PGO

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Stallman
cluded in the web pages, in the form 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 nonfre

Re: Builder crowdsourcing banner on PGO

2015-01-01 Thread Richard Stallman
s campaign on > IndieGoGo? IndieGoGo has an ethical problem: to donate requires running nonfree software. Thus, even if a campaign is a good thing, we shouldn't promote it on that site. We could urge people to send money to Builder in other ways. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free S

Repeated apology

2014-10-15 Thread Richard Stallman
I'm sorry 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

Message repeated due to mail bug

2014-10-13 Thread Richard Stallman
cript 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

Message repeated due to mail bug

2014-10-13 Thread Richard Stallman
cript 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

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Stallman
correction of those errors. 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.

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Stallman
correction of those errors. 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.

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Stallman
correction of those errors. 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.

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Stallman
correction of those errors. 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.

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Stallman
correction of those errors. 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.

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Stallman
correction of those errors. 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.

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