Vinyl discs are cool... and DRM-free

2014-06-04 Thread Solal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Music majors's strategy for limit fans freedom with DRM is to end CD era. Their work has somehow worked: CD sales dropped significantly this last years. Majors want listeners listen their DRM music. This works (see the Spotify success) but there is

Restrictware... But this is for help science, of course!

2014-05-31 Thread Solal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I found a dangerous thing, a new excuse for restrictware creators to restrict freedom : We have not outsourced the client for several reasons, relating to client reliability and other issues. However, we’ve come up with a compromise — we have been

Re: Statement on code.NASA project

2014-05-04 Thread Solal
up! Le 25/04/2014 12:45, Solal a écrit : The code.NASA project is a catalog of software distributed by the NASA and which is used by its space projects. There are some problems in this project : -Most of software are proprietary, under the NOSA (NASA Open Source Agreement). NOSA is open

Statement on code.NASA project

2014-04-25 Thread Solal
The code.NASA project is a catalog of software distributed by the NASA and which is used by its space projects. There are some problems in this project : -Most of software are proprietary, under the NOSA (NASA Open Source Agreement). NOSA is open source but not free. I call that a POSS license

Essay : The Free Software Definition

2014-04-24 Thread Solal
I've tried to put all the complete Free Software Definition (very long in its complete form, which takes a big part of the What's free software? essay) in a shorter version. A software is free if : 0. Free Use : The user have the right to use the software without any restrictions. 1. Free Source

Wikipedia

2014-04-23 Thread Solal
Wikipedia have an amoral approach of what is an encyclopedia. For example, Wikipedia rejects the use of the real name GNU/Linux in articles about this system because GNU/Linux is often called Linux[1]. Non-free software is an example of that amoral approach and thrives on it. Thus, in the long run