Re: Truth matters when writing software and selecting leaders

2021-04-03 Thread Jean Louis
* Martin [2021-03-30 19:58]: > > Instead of open source, we say, free software or free (libre) > > software. > This is absurd, I would never use only "free software" term for the exactly > same reason I'm not using only the word "open-source". You may, but we don't, as it is vague term. On GNU

Re: Truth matters when writing software and selecting leaders

2021-04-03 Thread Martin
On 3/30/21 1:38 PM, Jean Louis wrote: * Martin [2021-03-30 15:51]: This kind of stories also have some pros. That time Jabber/XMPP network was getting big "free" promotion from Facebook, Google, etc. Nowadays I'm still using Jabber/XMPP and I have zero interest of having fb, g+, etc. I don't

Re: Truth matters when writing software and selecting leaders

2021-04-03 Thread shulie
On 3/30/21 12:58 PM, Martin wrote: > Nowadays almost every end user is verifying PGP signatures, it's not a > rocket science anymore. no they aren't and it is not rocket science, it is just poorly designed and worstly implimented.

Re: Truth matters when writing software and selecting leaders

2021-04-03 Thread Martin
On 3/29/21 12:26 PM, Jean Louis wrote: * Martin [2021-03-29 13:57]: From the paragraph above, I can see you did not get the difference between the free software and open souce. And your analogy is not right. You mentioned price not freedom. I know that gnu definition and in general I'm on your

Re: Truth matters when writing software and selecting leaders

2021-04-03 Thread Martin
On 3/30/21 9:10 AM, Jean Louis wrote: * Martin [2021-03-30 11:07]: On 3/29/21 12:26 PM, Jean Louis wrote: I do not think that Facebook is freeware software, it is cloud service provider. There are Facebook applications and messengers, maybe you mean those? See:

Re: Truth matters when writing software and selecting leaders

2021-04-03 Thread Jean Louis
* Martin [2021-03-30 15:51]: > This kind of stories also have some pros. That time Jabber/XMPP network was > getting big "free" promotion from Facebook, Google, etc. Nowadays I'm still > using Jabber/XMPP and I have zero interest of having fb, g+, etc. I don't remember that neither Google nor

Re: Truth matters when writing software and selecting leaders

2021-04-03 Thread Jean Louis
* Martin [2021-03-30 11:07]: > On 3/29/21 12:26 PM, Jean Louis wrote: > > * Martin [2021-03-29 13:57]: > > From the paragraph above, I can see you did not get the difference > > between the free software and open source. And your analogy is not > > right. You mentioned price not freedom. > I

Dealin with Social Justice Warriors - Re: Truth matters when writing software and selecting leaders

2021-04-03 Thread Jean Louis
* Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss) <936-846-2...@kylheku.com> [2021-03-26 19:02]: > Those incidents could have been "innocent" in the sense that > the person was really just working on their own and actually member > of [FOOBAR group], just with a really oboxious personality and > way of thinking. >

Re: police report against the petition mob

2021-04-03 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer
Daniel Pocock wrote: On 29/03/2021 12:59, Daniel Pocock wrote: On 29/03/2021 02:49, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: Daniel Pocock wrote: : host eggs.gnu.org[209.51.188.92] said: 550 bad domain - email sysad...@fsf.org for details (in reply to RCPT TO command) : host

On mailer daemon notice

2021-04-03 Thread Jean Louis
* Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss) <936-846-2...@kylheku.com> [2021-03-29 17:52]: > To be confident, I would need inside information: what the mail exchanger > is and how it is configured. I had that error once too with eggs.gnu.org and I do not think that Libreplanet human mailing list managers

Re: police report against the petition mob

2021-04-03 Thread Jean Louis
* Daniel Pocock [2021-03-29 13:59]: > If the roles were reversed, if de Blanc was a male harassing a female > boss, past or present, there would already be a restraining order. The > police handle such cases in the same manner as domestic violence. But > because de Blanc is female, she seems to

Re: Truth matters when writing software and selecting leaders

2021-04-03 Thread Jean Louis
* Martin [2021-03-29 13:57]: > On 3/28/21 6:47 AM, Jean Louis wrote: > > * shulie [2021-03-27 21:28]: > > > On 3/24/21 10:55 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: > > > > As I understand, RMS always thought that proprietary software > > > > companies would make some kind of large legal attack on the GNU

Re: Truth matters when writing software and selecting leaders

2021-04-03 Thread Martin
On 3/28/21 6:47 AM, Jean Louis wrote: * shulie [2021-03-27 21:28]: On 3/24/21 10:55 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: As I understand, RMS always thought that proprietary software companies would make some kind of large legal attack on the GNU project, no - this is just how the extreme left works