Obviously the worst thing about proprietary JavaScript is that it's
proprietary. You don't have the 4 freedoms.
Besides that JavaScript can be used for snooping various things, some listed
at https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Also, the JavaScript sandboxes on many applications are not too good
I posted my IMO on harmful effects of non-free JavaScript here:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/harmful-effects-non-free-javascript
tl;dr: tricking users, unnecessarily tracking of user actions on pages,
obfuscation or primitive digital restrictions management (hard to tell,
not sure what
I'm living in India and using mirror in.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ since
I installed Trisquel 7.0 LTS. But for a week; This mirror is not answering.
I can't :
Neither sudo apt-get update Nor sudo apt-get install [pkg]
I've also checked by trying to download package(s) manually from
Maybe release the source code? What you're trying to do is nice, but it does
seem strange to me. If you're trying to make a fully free system, it would be
logical for you to develop and share it as free software. But you say that
you only provide a non-functional binary .iso without the
Hence Why in.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ is not active (since
about week)? Is it dead?
Yes, I think it must have died recently because I only started having
issues a few weeks ago (for some reason the installer must have
defaulted to India).
You should change to one of the archives listed
Recently I observed (for two days) that I can't open
http://packages.trisquel.info/ also checked from external sites (to see that
http://packages.trisquel.info/ is not down for me or really down) which also
results that http://packages.trisquel.info/ is down/dead.
Then Why
OK. I replaced in.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ with
http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel (in /etc/apt/sources.list) and now All working
fine. BTW https://trisquel.info/en/forum/packagestrisquelinfo-downdead
It is hosted by http://kmeacollege.ac.in/
some of their services have been down for a while
You can useapt-cache search QUERYfor searching the descriptions of packages
andapt-cache search -n QUERY for searching package names.
The development server is being migrated to a new machine, service will be
restored soon.
Personally, I've been pretty much off the air since 12/25, however, at that
time the 'backend' of the new build system was undergoing tests. That is the
part which delivers signed binaries of Trisquelized packages to the repo.
There is also a bug against packages.trisquel.info for it not
I bought myself a dinky TV dinner tray to put my Libreboot X60s on for
Christmas. Since then the ventilation holes at the bottom have been left in
the clear I haven't had an overheat. I'm not running thinkfan, but am running
last stable Libreboot rather than any from the current beta
As much as I would love to release the source code early, if I did, there
would be nothing to sell! Also, it wouldn't add much additional proof of the
software's existence.
The FSF supports selling free software - the GPL was designed with this in
mind:
Read the article correctly
The article says selling free software
and The free software must possess the four freedoms
You violated the four freedoms
you say that you only provide a non-functional binary .iso without the source
code and
sell a DVD with working one you ask people not to
The people who receive the software have the freedom to distribute it. All I
am doing, is requesting on a human level that they wait a bit before doing
so. They can disregard my request if they want to.
I didn't want to distribute the cd56.iso without source, but many people were
I think of it this way, Facebook and I presume Google track users when
they're logged out and not even on their sites through all sorts of code that
we can't see or opt out of.
http://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-we-do-track-logged-out-users-but-trust-us/#!
i have no experiance with multiple monitors
but i do know that very few modern video cards
work well with free software
you can get a good one that will work with trisquel from thinkpenguin though:
Thank you.
I recognize some of the links stated in the answers. The quality of espeak
and festival voices I have installed or tested, is not high enough. I am
impressed of the quality of windows voice anna. On the internet there was,
and maybe still is, some windows sapi5 voices. Fx
Really enjoyed this speec the last night - I didn't see it before on minitube
so I guess is quite recent..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8mOIAY_Jmw
cheers
It's hard to do business with unknown people. That's the case here from
possible donnors/patrons to Riley and vice-versa. It's much easier if there's
a trusted intermediary.
Riley Baird:
I'm very glad that you're interested in free software. I support commercial
development of free
Thanks for the great essay- I'm now convinced that I should keep LibreJS
enabled.
orthogonal released the cd56.iso- I did a quick comparison of OpenBSD's ISO
and LibertyBSD's ISO:
LibertyBSD:
8.0 MB in size
OpenBSD:
8.8 MB in size
That's all the comparison that's possible without the source code.
It seems most likely that the blobs are the only things which would be large
enough to account for this much of a difference in size.
Since you're already buying a CD, I'll email you a link to the source
tarballs now, if you'd like to do any more comparison. (They're several
hundred
Thank you so much for going to all of this work to make this proposal. This
is definitely something which I would like to do.
*I've removed the cd56.iso from the website. If anyone is looking for it, and
still wants it, feel free to ask.
*Would the FSF be willing to act as an escrow? I
You can't rely entirely on OpenBSD's policy. Note this passage:
It follows however, that OpenBSD cannot include material
which includes copyrights which are more restrictive than
the Berkeley copyright, or must relegate this material to
a secondary status, i.e. OpenBSD as a whole is freely
Okay, good point about the policy. As far as I can tell, there is no more
non-free software in OpenBSD (other than the firmware blobs). If any more is
found, I'll be sure to remove it.
I don't think that it's worth refusing to help OpenBSD just because of their
license choice. After all -
I've just heard that some people are unable to donate/buy CDs because they
don't have a Bitcoin wallet, so I've included instructions on how to pay
using Paypal or credit card:
http://www.libertybsd.net/#nobitcoin
I've also contacted the FSF to ask about escrow, so hopefully that will work.
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