You got it spot on. This is one of the two reasons we don't ship hardware
dependent on non-free software. It's not just an ethical issue. There is a
practical side to things too. It is unfortunate that the whole thing gets
written off because people feel that it's fanaticism. It's not. There
I'll start by saying I haven't had the chance tread these articles yet
although a post elsewhere suggests NVIDIA is reacting to Linus's recent
criticism by releasing code and documentation. I suspect this is NVIDIA
pulling an AMD. For those who aren't aware AMD released some
I didn't read or it didn't mention in what I read this is for a mobile
graphics chipset (tablets and phones). It does not look like you will be
seeing us releasing computers with an NVIDIA graphics chipset any time soon.
That is at least not unless we end up shipping a tablet/phone. It
I agree this is better buying harware from manufacturers that are the best
free software friends. But how can you find this information? I personally
don't know how. But if you know, you might be able to create and maintain a
list of manufacturers and give them a notation about their
webgl.force-enabled was false. Set it true. But, still mapsgl did not work.
neither did adive.in.
gnash plugin was disabled, i enabled it. But, could not view streetview.
There was also an error in terminal
Mesa 7.11 implementation error: unexpected format in
_mesa_choose_tex_format()
My hate for proprietary software started way before I heard the words
proprietary/free/non-free/opensource software, when you start to see
applications crash, with licences everywhere, and you can't replace them,
this is when you start to think a little bit more about the what's inside
the
That is because there are few people who deal with these issues on a day to
day basis and are supporting a large user base. If I hadn't worked for a
distribution in 2005 with an opposing perspective to free software I wouldn't
have realized just how big a problem it was. When I founded
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Open source is wrong. It irritates me to no end how companies claim to be
'open source friendly' because they release a very minimal amount of source
code to the community. They claim to be 'collaborating with the community',
when all they're doing is making it easier to run their
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Le 12-09-21 07:25 PM, aliasb...@gmail.com a écrit :
Correct me if wrong, but Debian could only reach FSF-approved, 100% free
distribution if they would
create a Distribution without any non-free software,[...]
I believe Debian has already achieved
I am pretty sure the list is manually updated by ruben. He indicated to me a
few days ago, when replying about something else on the dev list, that he was
[http://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/trisquel-devel/2012-September/000694.html
completely swamped]. Probably because he is working on
Open source is about the convenience to developers and business. It is a
valid business reason to do so. Where it might actually help a competitor
companies are extremely careful not to release the source code. It's why
Intel releases 100% of the source and NVIDIA/AMD won't. You find that in
Just to correct an historical mistake: GNU Hurd was in no way developed in
reaction to Linux. Its development actually started in 1990, i.e., before
Linus Torvalds started Linux. Actually, the effort on the Hurd was rapidly
diminished because, after being released under the GNU GPL, Linux
Hello, I recently moved from ubuntu and installed dagda, then brigantia, and
first of all: a big THANK YOU to the developers of trisquel.
In this post, I ask for help because I think I messed up something.
The AUCTeX extension of emacs wasn't running properly, and I found out it had
to do
Also consider the difference between net and gross. For example lets say I
get paid by my job $800 a month (after taxes). For me that is net. However,
lets say Ruben makes $800 a month from donations/membership I would say that
is gross. That is because money has to be taken out of that
It may be a problem with the emacs metapackage.
Either try:
#with with GTK+ user interface
sudo apt-get install emacs23
or
#without X support
sudo apt-get install emacs23-nox
Thanks very much for your swift reply!! on-the-fly, wow!
I found the error, however, when I re-read the error message: emacs and
emacs23 were expecting a directory used by/for PSPP, as the pspp package was
still installed. So what I did was: uninstall pspp, re-install emacs and
emacs23.
Trisquel does not have a non-free section in its repositories nor it has
that kind of sentences in the about section of its website:
Although Debian believes in free software, there are cases where people want
or need to put non-free software on their machine. Whenever possible Debian
will
I believe Debian has already achieved that and is only pending review by
the FSF.
Old news or was there significant progress after Squeeze (and its kernel
just recommending separate blobs)?
and without repositories that would allow to easily install non-free
software right ?
By that logic
You know what, I'm of the opinion that if it works just go with it. But that
is just personal choice. Sorry your log was a tad hard to read consider I
don't speak that language (german?). Either way glad the issue is fixed.
Having used other forums, I agree such an application might be generally
useful. Since this forum can be accessed as a mailing list, it's
probably easier on a phone than Web-only forums.
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Thank you, SirGrant.
Yes, it was German and I knew somebody might not understand, sorry.
I will leave it as is, because I think that as long as I haven't installed
any of those packages emacs23 is in conflict with, everything should be
fine. And Emacs works, that's the main point.
thank you!
i built OpenNX from source and it works! yeah.
though i still have some question regarding free software.
OpenNX seems to just be a GUI which comes with GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC
LICENSE Version 2.1, February 1999. That is free software, right?
The actual remote connection is
Yes, the GNU Lesser General Public License is a free software license.
Most software that is described as open source also qualifies as free
software. You'd have to check the actual license of the software in question
to be sure, though. The GPL isn't the only free software license, so
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Le 12-09-22 12:05 PM, Micha? Mas?owski a écrit :
I believe Debian has already achieved that and is only pending review by
the FSF.
Old news or was there significant progress after Squeeze (and its kernel
just recommending separate blobs)?
and
Don't use a GPL license and go with MIT or BSD so you have no complications
in getting the app accepted in Google Play in addition to F-Droid. I don't
want people to think I am anti-GPL because I am going for MIT instead. It's
just easier to get into the Apple and Google App Stores.
Never thought of that. I will have a look at the MIT and BSD licences. I was
thinking of adding an ad like my other Android Application (BodyIMC, quite a
good couple of years that I haven't done anything with that), and reversing
50% of the revenues (since the software would not exist if
Making difficult to install free software is going on the same trap as those
that make us life difficult to only use non-free software (like schools). We
don't need to force people, we need to educate them, and we need to work
together in order to have something that people can say : If this
Its so good to notice that my little post raised so much discussion. Getting
back to the topic: h-node. I am currently finishing my studies by doing my
practical training period in a small computer shop repairing computers. This
gives me an excelent chance to contribute to h-node.
When I
Awesome! Thank you for your contribution!
I definitely should. If I had the time to write a book I probably would.
I'm so busy trying to scale a small operation into something bigger though it
isn't like to happen.
I think a better solution is to advise people that the information can easily
steer people in less desirable
I know that Apple won't accept GPL licensed apps on their app store just in
case you created an iPhone version.
Be careful with installing software outside the Trisquel repository.
Figuring out if something is free software or not is challenging. More
frequently than not people use the term open source to describe software
that has non-free dependencies. There are few completely free solutions out
There is GPL-licensed software in Google Play. Besides, users of Android can
install software from other sources. By the way, you want to distribute your
software through the F-Droid free software repository too.
As for app markets refusing the GPL, I only know of Apple's. It may be that
There really should be more of an effort to keep conversation of money in the
forums. The more we talk about it the more people will realize the need to
donate and become a member.
It's not unreasonable to ask a few hundred USD / EUROS / AUD / CAN from each
user every couple of years.
Are you aware that the kernel you describe not only exists but you are using
it! All GNU/Linux distribution recommended by the FSF (Trisquel included) use
Linux-libre, i.e., the Linux kernel minus the blobs.
Working together is a keyword here to success (that is freedom). I think
we're getting there too. It's not just the free software world which is doing
a better job at it. We're interacting with lots of different organizations,
projects, and companies. Not to mention the community.
Thanks for the info. :)
Just be careful when using GPL code as there are more restrictions than a MIT
or BSD license. Some of the most important and useful software out or in the
near future like nginx or openstack or chromium go for a more permissive
license for wide adoption.
Each license has a purpose in what
I was wondering if I would suggest a system on h-node to recognize truly free
software frendly vendors from the rest. Let's assume we have a list of those
vendors. Then it would be relatively easy to add some kind of mark or message
to every device's page from that vendor. It would also be
I know that, but I also know that to archive this goal the Linux-Libre kernel
maintainers had to use a script that would compile the kernel without the
non-free stuff. I was talking about an option, the Linux Kernel works around
a lot of useful options that can be enabled or disabled when
Why couldn't I sell an application with a GPL Licence ? I've read the licence
rules and if I remember right, we only have to give the code when someone
buy the application, but this person has the right to do whatever he/she
wants with the application and the sources since it is his freedom.
Please Name Shame them. They are defiantly rubbish at education.
On 22/09/12 06:38, migatheot...@gmail.com wrote:
And don't worry about people laughing about you for not having Adobe
Flash. I've gone through the same. A few months back, I went to an
online high school (that I had started when
By definition, any free software (whatever the specifics of its definition)
grants the *users* the freedom to use it as they wish. You are actually
talking (one more time) about *developers* profiting from free software under
permissive licenses to integrate some or all code to their
You can, by definition, sell any free software.
Observe that you cannot do *anything* with *any* free software program. For
instance, copylefted licenses (such as the GPL) do not allow sublicensing. In
particular, you cannot take some GPL code (that you have not written
yourself) and
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