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> Ben Finney writes:
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> > Please enable support to log into the wiki with our existing OpenID
> > http://moinmo.in/JohannesBerg/OpenID%20support> so we don't
> > have to maintain yet another set of authentication credentials.
>
> If I
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Thanks, Ben. To be clear, the show is on Wednesday nights. I'll be on
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> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.foss.melbourne>.
[…]
> I have given Ben Sturmfels instructions for how to make the past
> messages of this forum appear as postings in Gmane; hopefully he can
> f
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> allows sending an appreciative note instead of a bug report:
>
> -k, --kudos
> Send appreciative email to the recorded maintainer
> address, r
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> ben+freesoftw...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>
> > IIUC, that invitation was to you specifically, and not for general
> > distribution :-/
>
> Ben, Bianca, how do you explain: "a spee
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Howdy all,
On last night's Byte Into It, we had whole lot of software freedom
discussion, and Vanessa even gave a shout-out to Free Software Melbourne
for tonight.
* LibreOffice 3.6 released, and people can upgrade or stay with the
previous release as it's still supported.
* CyanogenMod 9 rele
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> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:04:05AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > First you'd need to show that we're treating graphics firmware
> > specially. I think the same criticisms are applied to vendors who
> > act against freedom in network interface
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> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:04:05AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > First you'd need to show that we're treating graphics firmware
> > specially. I think the same criticisms are applied to vendors who
> > act against freedom in network interface
;s possible, at some point in time, for the issue to
affect us all catastrophically.
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http://bytbox.net/blog/2012/08/leaving-github.html>
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Melbourne?
We could aim for $1000 or some other impressive figure.
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> In other words: Get the money to me before the end of this month and
> I'll donate it to MediaGoblin in the name of Free Software Melbourne.
Today I made a donation of US$240 to the campaign, hooray!
It was a little complicated; I'm still trying to declare
of Free Software Melbourne.
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> Today I made a donation of US$240 to the campaign, hooray!
>
> It was a little complicated; I'm still trying to declare the donation
> in the name “Free Software Melbourne” instead of my name.
John Sullivan of the FSF has belatedly notified me that the nam
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> Today I made [in the name of Free Software Melbourne] a donation of
> US$240 to the campaign, hooray!
As a reward, the MediaGoblin project has sent me a T-shirt with their
logo. It's a “unisex” (i.e. men's) style, size Large.
This shirt belongs, IMO,
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> So in order for XMPP to continue we need to have clear recommendations
> for good servers to switch to. What servers are good to recommend to our
> friends who are Google Talk refugees?
I wasn't specific enough here: I mean “which services are good to
r
if I were to omit that we have no budget
for this currently :-)
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> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:23:08PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Here is an excerpt from my response
>
> Just an excerpt? :)
Yes, I excerpted only the part of general software-freedom interest
(beyond the specific query that started the thread at the ‘debian-l
ake any FDL-licensed work non-free.
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m of a work.
Why does that surprise you?
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only a loose trust
relationship have access to crack it if they choose.
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, since they are working to prevent
societal harm.
It's a dilemma that I'd like to see discussed and resolved by the free
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> On 21/07/13 13:22, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Adam Bolte writes:
> >> Given that the Debian project rejects the GNU Free Documentation
> >> License from main - a stance which I strongly disagree with
> >
> > I'm surprised by that.
tal software
freedoms, and hence enough to reject FDL-licensed works from the free
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> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Ben Finney <
> ben+freesoftw...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>
> > Adam Bolte
> > writes:
> >
> > > Once again, your definition conflicts with what the legal Free
> > > Dictionary appears
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> Not all interpreters are interpreting executable programs as input.
> Your “ASCII interpreter” is not treating the input document as a
> program. It is parsing the document's structure and content, but not
> executing the result as a program. A plain-text
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