There is the FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe.) But the problem of free
software is similary to the problems my political party in the Netherlands
(Socialist Party) is exposed to.
People have all kinds of misunderstandings. Even trying to get rid of
misunderstandings in the office
I know that xD But the concept of this wonderful piece of software is to run
Microsoft Windows applications on it, and this is why I mostly don't use it
(yes I'm a little bit radical I know)
I totally agree with this, it is almost the same problem for a different
thing, but once again, the best we can do (as human beings respectful of
others life) is to don't push them as we don't wanted them to push us.
And this is where the big problem is. If you want to accept your idea and
Ras PI needs propriety software for the GPU just to boot! No good for
free software subscribers. Rhombus Tech is superior!
http://rhombus-tech.net/
On 18/09/12 01:57, aliasb...@gmail.com wrote:
It's very kind of you but I can't accept that, it goes against my way of
life (if I can say this
I know but I was hopping to use it only in server mode :S One more dream
broken xD I will see Rhombus Tech (never heard of it).
Do check out the mailing list. There is a lot of info on the site if you
look carefully.
On 19/09/12 00:54, aliasb...@gmail.com wrote:
I know but I was hopping to use it only in server mode :S One more dream
broken xD I will see Rhombus Tech (never heard of it).
Hello Everyone,
To start I just wanted to say a big Thank You for all that Trisquel and the
Free Software Community archived in the years that passed. I remember that it
was thanks to Ubuntu that I switched from Windows to Gnu/Linux, and now it
was thanks to Trisquel Gnu/Linux that I've
Thank you very much of your posting. It was interesting to read.
In engineering education I had similar problems what you have. There was only
one person besides me in my class who used GNU/Linux. The teachers were not
hostile toward Free Software though, and I managed to almost finish the
Hello moilami,
To start, thanks a lot for you fast answering :D That really helped me a lot
to see a different point a view from an Engineering Student.
I managed to not use anything than Free Software (except for JavaFX in the
first year not very happy with that but what can I do...
It is a shame that your program / school / professors are not troubled by
this.
If they won't accommodate there are other issues with the program that should
get them to change the requirements. There is a difference between a tech
school and a college level program. In a tech school you
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:24:54 +0200 (CEST)
aliasb...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Everyone,
To start I just wanted to say a big Thank You for all that Trisquel and the
Free Software Community archived in the years that passed. I remember that it
was thanks to Ubuntu that I switched from
Is very difficulty to use only free software in others places, but the mostly
of times is possible. The mostly of professors recommend many non-free
software and the mostly students without critic sense use it.
My cousin started the last month in civil engineering course and have the
same
Thanks for you reply :D
I totally agree with you in that point ! Those schools/universities exist to
learn us how to Program and how to use in a clever way all the technologies
that we have in our hands, and not to learn a specific technology that will
block our views and our way of
Merci pour la réponse :D Tous les commentaires sont réellement très
appréciés.
Je vais donc te réponde en Français. Je n'ai pas d'autres solutions :S Et
c'est bien ça mon plus grand problème. L’université la plus proche de
moi est sur Lisbonne, et moi qui vie dans les alentours (Barreiro
Thanks for the Reply :D
I agree with you, there is a lot of Free Software but not for every usage
sadly, and even if I manage to finish my course without using proprietary
software (at least on my personal machine... that one will never happen again
!), it will be hard to find a job that
ahahah xD Nice advices indeed :D
You are right, I need to take this unique opportunity :D
Thanks a lot for all the advices ^_^
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:04:28 +0200 (CEST)
aliasb...@gmail.com wrote:
Erasmus ?... I never taught of that... I mean I already heard of this, but I
didn't knew that this could be in my advantage... I really need to see this
:D (even knowing that we mustn't let any course behind (too late
The last time I saw it, it was only 3 months :S... But I will confirm that in
the beginning of the year.
If I am very lucky, and if I work hard I could do Erasmus this year and going
to Japan in the next Year (ok maybe I am see something too far for what I can
archive but dreaming is not
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:36:17 +0200 (CEST)
aliasb...@gmail.com wrote:
Merci pour la réponse :D Tous les commentaires sont réellement très
appréciés.
Je vais donc te réponde en Français. Je n'ai pas d'autres solutions :S
No, no if you want you can speak in english, i understand, but i have
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:27:42 +0200 (CEST)
aliasb...@gmail.com wrote:
The last time I saw it, it was only 3 months :S... But I will confirm that in
the beginning of the year.
If I am very lucky, and if I work hard I could do Erasmus this year and going
to Japan in the next Year (ok
How sorry then xD Even if talking in English when reading some text in
another language that I understand can be a little bit weird for my brain but
that's not the point here :D.
Yes, Gnu/Linux zs Sorry, I've taught myself over the years to say Linux
instead of Gnu/Linux in order to make
Didn't knew about that :S... I really need to inform myself about that
quickly then.
IIRC Mono uses libwine to provide a .Net Winforms API.
Wine also provides a DirectX 9 replacement. That is AIUI how some of the
proprietary virtualization solutions provide virtual 3D graphics (they hack
the Wine source to work with a proprietary interface provided by the virtual
machine
Hi Thanks for the reply :D
I didn't saw the problem from that kind of view... I think that I will send
an email for the professors of the courses that force us to use those
technologies (or other that I can't remember), to make a change if possible.
PS : I think that the big problem will
They are teaching students to use what the market uses, and this for one
reason... because it is what students use xD No more no less.
School has to do this work. I'm happy to discovered the system GNU like
Trisquel and others, but i'm disapointed to discover so late.
They are teaching students to use what the market uses, and this for one
reason... because it is what students use xD No more no less.
School has to do this work. I'm happy to discovered the system GNU like
Trisquel and others, but i'm disapointed to discover so late.
I was very shocked and angry when reading how narrow mined your school seems
to be. Maybe things are different in France but I suspect you just had
exceptional bad luck with the school you've ended up with. I'm in Germany
(more precisely, at the KIT) and after the second semester they
When I was reading the original post and replies, it only strengthens me in
my believe that no only you are struggling with the problems proprietary
software brings along, but it also appears that you are caught by modern
politics. It appears to me that your university, similar to other
Totally agree, if it wasn't our own initiative we would have never discovered
such great distributions like this one.
The
real trouble started with Java, but mostly JavaFX, the final project
was in JavaFX so I had to use JavaFX SDK with OpenJDK in order to make
it work (but Oracle now don't have them separate, instead of that it
is necessary to install Oracle JavaSDK 7 to have access to JavaFX and
that is a
I quite like the following two online teaching websites:
Udacity: http://www.udacity.com/
Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/
They've got many university-level courses spanning various disciplines.
It also does not cost anything to participate: no enrolment fees and no
need for external study
I am a control engineering student in Brazil and have a similar problem. I
don't know anybody in my course (save some professors from the computing
department, not engineering) that uses free software or free OS's here. I
have a course that demands to learn AutoCAD. When I did that I used
To start, thanks a lot for you reply, every idea, suggestion, and support is
very welcome for me right know :D
I never went to Germany but I've learn a few words in France (not enough to
have a simple conversation which is bad, I really regret the fact that I
didn't take the opportunity to
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Morne Alberts mo...@malberts.net wrote:
I quite like the following two online teaching websites:
Udacity: http://www.udacity.com/
Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/
Hi,
those website have a lot of useful
Thanks for the reply :D
Like I said in the last reply, my university (like many others in Europe, and
all around the world), are only around the idea of getting a job, and they
don't teach us any more how to program (or anything else), but how to use the
tool that we will mostly use when
Thanks for you reply :D
Parabola has OpenJDK7 but no JavaFX. JavaFX was shipped as a separate
package, but now it is integrated with Oracle Java JDK7 only, not with
OpenJDK7 (at least for now).
At least for C# we have Mono and Monodevelop as alternative.. not the best
but at least it
Thanks for the Reply :D
I really want to thank you for telling me that there is a good Alternative to
MatLab :D I will need to use it the next year and haven't find a good
alternative until now (mainly because I never used MatLab at all).
As for a Circuit Simulation alternative, I was
I will have a look at those :D Thanks !
I've already seen that plugin to Eclipse somewhere but I don't remember
where... I really need to give it a better look before the class begin :D
Thanks for the help ^_^
There is GNU Octave, Scilab, and Sage which you can use to replace Matlab.
With Scilab you can even try to replace Matlab's Simulink. You wont be able
to do everything with Scilab what you can do with Simuling, but I am quite
sure you can do with Scilab assignments required in the course.
Stuff school. Stupid institution to zombieafly imhumans to do what there
are told. Home Education! If they are still teaching trash/flash they
really are obsolete. I've been to private then state schools. In the UK.
I am not leaning about engineering. Left school at the end of year 8. I
am now
I have the freedom... But not everywhere, and that is the problem. The only
place where I have that freedom is at home and on my laptop, and even those 2
are getting in danger... In Portugal we have to do our IRS (taxes) by using a
software, that is, available for Linux, but no Free (as in
Take advantage of your hirer education to learn what you want to learn
regardless of what is being taught. Your “education” and grades be
dammed. It is unlikely it'll matter later on anyway. At least if you have the
initiative to go your own way. The fact that you've switched to GNU/Linux
Thanks for the reply :D
In my school teachers let the students work with others and see their code,
but they do 2 things :
1 - They have a software that looks for all the projects to see if there is a
Plagiarism, or better, if anyone just made any copy-paste.
2 - They will ask
If there is no such group (hard to believe) start one. Take a look at the
Latin America Group as an example:
http://www.fsfla.org
You don't need to hold regular meetings. Just setup a group with a mailing
list and/or forum. Then start contacting whatever groups and organizations
are
If I'm not mistaken Microsoft is abandoning .net and Mono is no more. Novell
laid off the developer(s) that were working on it.
Similar story at many other universities. I currently go to university and
I'm studying IT.
The programming course which I'm doing does C# development. I have been using
Mono, which is okay because it is entirely Free Software (but it could be a
patent trap for anyone who implements or
I don't know if they isn't any, I just know that RMS talked about them on the
response email but I didn't find them anywhere :S...
But thank you for the suggestion maybe I should start directly with something
in my school to start to appeal people showing them the benefits of using
Free
Can you take it to someone else and have them submit it for you? I would also
recommend complaining. Write to the government or electors about this issue.
Write to the computer groups. If you create a group / web site there will
likely be others who follow your lead.
If you need financial
I will be honest with you, I never paid for any software.. I always used the
services of our Sweden friend (thepiratebay). The only software that received
my money (the little amount of money that I have as a student without a job),
are :
- Humble Indie Bundle (1cent + 1cent + 37cents)
-
Can you take it to someone else and have them submit it for you? I would also
recommend complaining. Write to the government or electors about this issue.
This isn't true. Businesses use a variety of tools. While the majority of
jobs in many fields require the use of Microsoft Windows and
It's very kind of you but I can't accept that, it goes against my way of life
(if I can say this like that), but once again thank you a lot for the
suggestion, really !
I will buy a raspberry pie and will use it as server for a website like this
(and my others personal website needs), and
I am not applying for any job for know since I am still studying and it uses
almost all of my time. But I am scared because of the future just that,
that's why I start looking at it now, even knowing that everything can happen
from one day to another.
Thanks for you reply :D
The only solution I see is to have an external financial support (by finding
a job that is in accord with what I believe, or even just make some Free
Software and sell it for example, or ask for donation like most of the
software out there), and then make my
Things like this make me want to create my own enterprise that works around
Free Software (which is not a really bad idea when I think about it...).
I didn't know that there were so many issues in Portugal. You guys REALLY
need a free software advocacy organization.
I'm not sure your position on taking money for a cause although I think you
may have misunderstood me. The point was to help you pay the expenses of
running such an
I understood you correctly xD I wasn't thinking about any profit at all, but
I have real problems accepting anything for other (mostly money), and if it
isn't for me at all, because I have a fear of failing (I'm being honest).
But I will not discard the idea of the organization, but I want
At the end of each semester students are able to provide feedback to the
university. I will most certainly provide some feedback then!
Unfortunately the university has links to Cisco and Microsoft and so I doubt
that they would change their stance without major opposition from students.
I
If you allow me I will tell you a funny story that happen to me when I was
in France...
When I was young I was in a school (in the 78 department for those who know),
that had old computers running Windows 95 (and we where in 2006). So I
started an action (I was very young at that time xD I
Wow, that's a GREAT story with a bad ending. :(
It shows that Microsoft doesn't mind giving things if it means locking people
in for the long term.
Don't ask questions you don't know the answers to. You won't like the
response and it'll have no benefits. Ask questions that make them
uncomfortable about the relationships instead. Phrase questions such that the
response puts the universities in a low light.
What I mean by that is they
Thanks for the advice Chris. That's definitely a good point about teaching
concepts. I'll speak to a few of my lecturers and see if I get somewhere.
I can't say I'm expecting great results, but at least if I can make a good
point it could make people think about it.
For instance why does the university promote relationships which are against
the students academic interests? ie Cisco, Microsoft, Adobe, etc? These
companies stifle learning and lock students into tools. Universities should
be teaching concepts. Not tools.
Totally agree with you.
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:08:18 +0200 (CEST)
aliasb...@gmail.com wrote:
If you allow me I will tell you a funny story that happen to me when I was
in France...
When I was young I was in a school (in the 78 department for those who know),
that had old computers running Windows 95 (and we
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:07:23 +0200 (CEST)
aliasb...@gmail.com wrote:
Things like this make me want to create my own enterprise that works around
Free Software (which is not a really bad idea when I think about it...).
Some company work with free software. Look at the partnair of fsf.
I
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:43:33 +0200 (CEST)
aliasb...@gmail.com wrote:
I have the freedom... But not everywhere, and that is the problem. The only
place where I have that freedom is at home and on my laptop, and even those 2
are getting in danger... In Portugal we have to do our IRS
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:37:05 +0200 (CEST)
aliasb...@gmail.com wrote:
I understood you correctly xD I wasn't thinking about any profit at all, but
I have real problems accepting anything for other (mostly money), and if it
isn't for me at all, because I have a fear of failing (I'm being
The problem is that it is a stupid circle around the idea that, inside the
school, they teach you that outside everyone use proprietary software (mostly
Microsoft software), and because of that you need to do it to, and outside
they told you that you have to use them because it was what they
aliasbody -
You are benefiting from having these at your fingertips:
- Options to use free/open software on top of open hardware like ThinkPenguin
- Choice in programming languages that are open and well documented
- Ways to learn those programming languages without setting foot in school
- Run
Ok :D
Thanks for you reply :D
This is already what I have done, I never give any project or any file (since
the beginning of the University) in a close format and I'm really waiting for
this to make a difference, even little.
As for the rest, I totally agree with you, I have all the tools I
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