Not according to the Ziff-Davis article they haven't: - Microsoft's Mark Russinovich presumably heard what Stallman said at his talk (which was said to be a "mostly standard talk"). Stallman's talk usually includes a…
The public domain isn't recognized everywhere and licenses like Creative Commons Zero (CC0) which has a fallback of being all-permissive for regimes where a public domain won't work doesn't look out for patent…
Because Mozilla (unlike most other web browser publishers) publishes free software -- software users are allowed to run, inspect, modify, and share at any time for any reason. This is known as respecting a user's…
> This is still user-hostile bullshit and some people > at Microsoft really need to be beaten with a rubber > hose until they get it through their heads that they > don't own our devices. If you run proprietary software…
If the Input Mono Condensed you're referring to comes from https://djr.com/input/ I recommend reviewing that font's license. https://djr.com/license/ is a non-free license (the license does not respect your software…
I don't know what Librem 5 will offer in the end, but I think your response argues a false dichotomy with zero evidence. There is no "automated transparent and trusted global support infrastructure [...that requires]…
> I want a browser that is reliable, high quality, respects my privacy, and nothing else. I don't want addons baked into it. I don't want to be spied on. I recommend that you look into what you're getting with software…
It's not, of course, as you point out. One can't defend the ethics or law on the basis of what's good for a particular political party. One should come to a proper understanding of relevant US law, and US jurisdictional…
Here's another interview with Wolff: Transcript should arrive here eventually: https://therealnews.com/stories/amazon-gets-3-billion-in-ny-... Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlECXGQfVyY Some of the highlights of…
Perhaps but I think that point misses the underlying issue at hand -- with proprietary software users don't get any real control over the software. Even the corporate-friendly computer press reported plenty of stories…
It's tough for me to say because I've read multiple estimates and they vary by a factor of 10. Amazon's promises https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/amazon-selects-new... are one thing, what actually happens as…
You're missing the point (as are the moderators, apparently): trust is a factor only when it comes to proprietary software. If you have to "trust Apple" to deal with Apple software, then you've lost any reason to trust…
We don't commonly have figures on that, however the combination of proprietary (non-free, user subjugating) OS and application software plus built-in camera/mic hardware doesn't bode well for one's privacy.
Ugliness is subjective. Where do you get the data to back up the claim that "the number of people [who] want this is ridiculously small"?
You're essentially giving us a tautology -- the claim is true because it's true -- about something non-obvious (based on what you say is an opinion) and not evidence-based. Plus you give us a tangent about what happens…
Totally electronic balloting is bad news but not what the article dismisses without evidence. I'm not for electronic tabulation by default nor do I see the need. Optically scanned voter-verifiable paper ballots will…
I have no problem with doing either (so long as pre-arrangement never becomes mandatory), but that doesn't address fairness for illiterate voters at all. Also, it doesn't really tackle how a voter-verified paper ballot…
This article contradicts itself in at least one significant way without providing a real explanation for the contradiction. Early on the article claims "Apple tells CNET that it won't delete your movies, either. At…
According to https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8912714/Apple-i... "An unpatched security flaw in Apple’s iTunes software allowed intelligence agencies and police to hack into users’ computers for more than…
I'd say Brad Kuhn got it right in http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2016/08/13/does-not-kill.html including "[Y]our proprietary software has killed people, both quickly and slowly, and your attacks on GPLv3 and software freedom…
If what you say is true a more productive approach is to make a derivative of the last known non-malware release of FileZilla with a new name. FileZilla's code respects your software freedom (FileZilla is licensed under…
"Probably refers to"? That you don't know what "secure" refers to is itself a problem. But more problematic is anyone's defense of Google Chrome's architecture while overlooking that that architecture is implemented…
The real lesson here isn't forum shopping -- moving one's digital work to another singular place is repeating the error of the past: any singular forum invites censorship or an outcome that is indistinguishable from…
So Microsoft is highlighting the value of software freedom and the harm of software non-freedom: we're all granted permission to port free software (as Microsoft claims to have done with the Linux kernel, BusyBox, and…
It wasn't necessary (people who weren't going to buy the program still got a copy via file sharing, and as I point out later DRM chiefly hurts those who cooperate with the abuser/publisher). And Steam is not your friend…
Not according to the Ziff-Davis article they haven't: - Microsoft's Mark Russinovich presumably heard what Stallman said at his talk (which was said to be a "mostly standard talk"). Stallman's talk usually includes a…
The public domain isn't recognized everywhere and licenses like Creative Commons Zero (CC0) which has a fallback of being all-permissive for regimes where a public domain won't work doesn't look out for patent…
Because Mozilla (unlike most other web browser publishers) publishes free software -- software users are allowed to run, inspect, modify, and share at any time for any reason. This is known as respecting a user's…
> This is still user-hostile bullshit and some people > at Microsoft really need to be beaten with a rubber > hose until they get it through their heads that they > don't own our devices. If you run proprietary software…
If the Input Mono Condensed you're referring to comes from https://djr.com/input/ I recommend reviewing that font's license. https://djr.com/license/ is a non-free license (the license does not respect your software…
I don't know what Librem 5 will offer in the end, but I think your response argues a false dichotomy with zero evidence. There is no "automated transparent and trusted global support infrastructure [...that requires]…
> I want a browser that is reliable, high quality, respects my privacy, and nothing else. I don't want addons baked into it. I don't want to be spied on. I recommend that you look into what you're getting with software…
It's not, of course, as you point out. One can't defend the ethics or law on the basis of what's good for a particular political party. One should come to a proper understanding of relevant US law, and US jurisdictional…
Here's another interview with Wolff: Transcript should arrive here eventually: https://therealnews.com/stories/amazon-gets-3-billion-in-ny-... Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlECXGQfVyY Some of the highlights of…
Perhaps but I think that point misses the underlying issue at hand -- with proprietary software users don't get any real control over the software. Even the corporate-friendly computer press reported plenty of stories…
It's tough for me to say because I've read multiple estimates and they vary by a factor of 10. Amazon's promises https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/amazon-selects-new... are one thing, what actually happens as…
You're missing the point (as are the moderators, apparently): trust is a factor only when it comes to proprietary software. If you have to "trust Apple" to deal with Apple software, then you've lost any reason to trust…
We don't commonly have figures on that, however the combination of proprietary (non-free, user subjugating) OS and application software plus built-in camera/mic hardware doesn't bode well for one's privacy.
Ugliness is subjective. Where do you get the data to back up the claim that "the number of people [who] want this is ridiculously small"?
You're essentially giving us a tautology -- the claim is true because it's true -- about something non-obvious (based on what you say is an opinion) and not evidence-based. Plus you give us a tangent about what happens…
Totally electronic balloting is bad news but not what the article dismisses without evidence. I'm not for electronic tabulation by default nor do I see the need. Optically scanned voter-verifiable paper ballots will…
I have no problem with doing either (so long as pre-arrangement never becomes mandatory), but that doesn't address fairness for illiterate voters at all. Also, it doesn't really tackle how a voter-verified paper ballot…
This article contradicts itself in at least one significant way without providing a real explanation for the contradiction. Early on the article claims "Apple tells CNET that it won't delete your movies, either. At…
According to https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8912714/Apple-i... "An unpatched security flaw in Apple’s iTunes software allowed intelligence agencies and police to hack into users’ computers for more than…
I'd say Brad Kuhn got it right in http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2016/08/13/does-not-kill.html including "[Y]our proprietary software has killed people, both quickly and slowly, and your attacks on GPLv3 and software freedom…
If what you say is true a more productive approach is to make a derivative of the last known non-malware release of FileZilla with a new name. FileZilla's code respects your software freedom (FileZilla is licensed under…
"Probably refers to"? That you don't know what "secure" refers to is itself a problem. But more problematic is anyone's defense of Google Chrome's architecture while overlooking that that architecture is implemented…
The real lesson here isn't forum shopping -- moving one's digital work to another singular place is repeating the error of the past: any singular forum invites censorship or an outcome that is indistinguishable from…
So Microsoft is highlighting the value of software freedom and the harm of software non-freedom: we're all granted permission to port free software (as Microsoft claims to have done with the Linux kernel, BusyBox, and…
It wasn't necessary (people who weren't going to buy the program still got a copy via file sharing, and as I point out later DRM chiefly hurts those who cooperate with the abuser/publisher). And Steam is not your friend…