Re: referencing non-free software

2018-01-09 Thread Francesco Ariis
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 02:52:00PM -0500, Ilya Shlyakhter wrote: > "Of the many things you can accuse the FSF of, this is not one > of them" -- It's a direct quote from > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html . Touché. You left out: > Those who benefit from the current system where

Re: referencing non-free software

2018-01-09 Thread Francesco Ariis
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 02:19:29PM -0500, Ilya Shlyakhter wrote: > [..], so the FSF's caricature > of non-free software authors' motivations (“I want to get rich > (usually described inaccurately as ‘making a living’)") hardly > applies. Of the many things you can accuse the FSF of, this is not

Re: referencing non-free software

2018-01-09 Thread Francesco Ariis
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 12:51:16PM -0500, Ilya Shlyakhter wrote: > But don't you want users to choose free software consciously, having > considered your arguments that non-free software is "unethical and > immoral", and actively agreed with them? If users end up using free > software simply by

Re: Linux Kernel.org email address

2016-06-27 Thread Francesco Ariis
On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 08:55:52PM +0100, Jacinto Moreno wrote: > Hi,Our company has made some small modifications to the Linux Kernel and in > order to be compliant with GPLv2 I wanted to send an email to kernel.org with > the patches we made.https://www.kernel.org/doc/pending/gplv2-howto.html