On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 04:03:34AM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > GNU Radio Foundation, Inc. is denying freedom 0 to GNU wget users. > The only GNU Radio users being denied freedom 0 are those who are > also GNU wget users. > > 1) GNU wget users are not being "denied" access to GNU radio via Tor. > Here is me downloading GNU radio via Tor using GNU wget: > > $ wget http://gnuradio.org/releases/gnuradio/gnuradio-3.7.10.1.tar.gz > --2017-03-09 09:49:15-- > http://gnuradio.org/releases/gnuradio/gnuradio-3.7.10.1.tar.gz > Resolving gnuradio.org... 104.28.6.113, 104.28.7.113, > 2400:cb00:2048:1::681c:771, ... > Connecting to gnuradio.org|104.28.6.113|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: 4272430 (4.1M) [application/x-gzip] > Saving to: ‘gnuradio-3.7.10.1.tar.gz’ > > gnuradio-3.7.10.1.t 100%[===================>] 4.07M 4.04MB/s in 1.0s > > > 2017-03-09 09:49:16 (4.04 MB/s) - ‘gnuradio-3.7.10.1.tar.gz’ saved > [4272430/4272430]
That it works on your side, it means not it works on someone's else side. That is not a proof that you have used Tor, and overall, there are many Tor exits, which are treated different, unjustified, by Cloudfront. > 2) By saying that the GNU Radio Foundation is "denying access" you are > saying that they have activley taken decisions to make it > impossible, or very hard to download GNU Radio, they have done no > such thing. I agree fully that they are not doing it actively, but also not proactively finding better solution to serve the files. Jean Louis
