> Make of that what you will, but if that isn't just a slander, that's the
> guy upon whose legacy everyone is relying.
Everyone knows (or ought to, at this point) RMS is a weird guy and at best
makes some seriously questionable life choices and misinformed public
statements. There's a reason he
I once heard a story from someone* who was told by a journalist that while
said journalist was interviewing Richard Stallman he was [WARNING: GRAPHIC
CONTENT COMMENCES HERE] picking the jam from between his toes and eating it.
Oh, that's a thing of legend. Fear not, for there is video.
https://
> I once heard...
You don't need hearsay. FSF leadership seems to be proud, and vocal, of
things that make the rest of us cringe.
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 7:48 PM Sellam Abraham via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I once heard a story from someone* who was told by a journalist that whil
I once heard a story from someone* who was told by a journalist that while
said journalist was interviewing Richard Stallman he was [WARNING: GRAPHIC
CONTENT COMMENCES HERE] picking the jam from between his toes and eating it.
Make of that what you will, but if that isn't just a slander, that's th
FSF hasn't done anything in at least a decade, but someone from there "is
still around", so they're somehow relevant. People who actually are doing
something (e.g litigating) are dismissed because you "don't know these
people" (aside: there's someone who cares about open source who doesn't
know wh
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 09:25:31PM -0400, Ken Seefried wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 12:32 PM Alexander Huemer via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:05:41PM +0800, Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote:
> > > FSF does not enforce anything.
> >
> > https://gpl-viola
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 12:32 PM Alexander Huemer via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:05:41PM +0800, Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote:
> > FSF does not enforce anything.
>
> https://gpl-violations.org/
> They do though.
>
> -Alex
>
Go to 'News' on that site and the
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:05:41PM +0800, Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote:
> FSF does not enforce anything.
https://gpl-violations.org/
They do though.
-Alex
> FSF does not enforce anything. I repeatedly begged for help with Desktop
> CYBER which was GPL licensed and they did not even bother to reply.
I'm told by a friend at Red Hat that RH/IBM has a department for that kind of
thing and can/will provide legal help for outside projects.
Thanks,
Jonat
Maybe they only do for GPL items of their own.
paul
> On Mar 16, 2023, at 11:05 AM, Tom Hunter via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> FSF does not enforce anything. I repeatedly begged for help with Desktop
> CYBER which was GPL licensed and they did not even bother to reply.
>
> Tom Hunter
FSF does not enforce anything. I repeatedly begged for help with Desktop
CYBER which was GPL licensed and they did not even bother to reply.
Tom Hunter
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 7:46 AM Paul Koning via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>
> > On Mar 14, 2023, at 10:57 PM, Jonathan Chapman vi
> On Mar 14, 2023, at 10:57 PM, Jonathan Chapman via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>> If you posted your design as Open Source, someone else producing it isn't a
>> knockoff, it's the system working as intended.
>
> What is it when the design is open source, but they're not complying with the
> terms
On 3/15/2023 10:05 AM, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote:
If you posted your design as Open Source, someone else producing it
isn't a knockoff, it's the system working as intended.
-- Chris
I remember a talk by LadyADA of Adafruit at HOPE about starting a
company making open source hardware and
If you posted your design as Open Source, someone else producing it
isn't a knockoff, it's the system working as intended.
-- Chris
I remember a talk by LadyADA of Adafruit at HOPE about starting a company
making open source hardware and success and all that. It's easy if you
have the market
On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 09:16:02PM +, Jonathan Chapman via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> It's nice to support the designers in some capacity, but buying knockoffs
> fuels the ecosystem that creates knockoffs. With our stuff, it's never
> been that a single knockoff operation eats our lunch, it's that t
I have been thinking about this discussion: I bought one of the cheap 8
channel units on Ebay and downloaded the Salee software. It works
extremely well for debugging logic issues on my pdp8/L's but it has a
few issues:
The buffer size is miniscule, and I get data overruns at higher sample
ra
> If you posted your design as Open Source, someone else producing it isn't a
> knockoff, it's the system working as intended.
What is it when the design is open source, but they're not complying with the
terms of the license? That's what really bugs me, the "cost" of producing your
own from on
On 3/14/2023 8:26 PM, Chris Hanson via cctalk wrote:
If you posted your design as Open Source, someone else producing it isn't a
knockoff, it's the system working as intended.
-- Chris
Yep, naive on my part. I would counter that if I had just published my
designs online with a commercial
On Mar 14, 2023, at 2:55 PM, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote:
>
> On 3/14/2023 4:16 PM, Jonathan Chapman wrote:
>> There are other things that we've chosen not to run for the same basic
>> reason, and others that won't get open sourced.
>
> I will admit I am trending in that direction. I put thing
On 3/14/2023 4:48 PM, Alexander Huemer via cctalk wrote:
* The main IC in a 16 channel Saleae LA is a Xilinx Spartan 6,
The clones are of the older pre 2015 Cypress FX2 design, which was not
easy to protect. I don't see any eBay listings for the newer stuff in
clone format. I do see Logic8/
On 14 Mar 2023, at 23:23, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>
> On 3/14/23 14:48, Alexander Huemer via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Let's face it, there is a sizable number of people who will never ever
>> buy a logic analyzer for north of $1000. Either because they can't
>> afford it or are too greedy. Tha
On 3/14/23 14:48, Alexander Huemer via cctalk wrote:
> Let's face it, there is a sizable number of people who will never ever
> buy a logic analyzer for north of $1000. Either because they can't
> afford it or are too greedy. That is not lost revenue for the company.
> Either those people buy
On 3/14/2023 4:16 PM, Jonathan Chapman wrote:
There are other things that we've chosen not to run for the same basic
reason, and others that won't get open sourced.
I will admit I am trending in that direction. I put things as FLOSS
because I wanted the designs to outlast my involvement with
On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 09:16:02PM +, Jonathan Chapman via cctalk wrote:
> > But, as some who worked
> > to bring a product to market only to see people on forums say "Skip
> > buying it from Jim for , you can build the same thing by yourself
> > for $ from AliExpress parts or buy this eBay
> But, as some who worked
> to bring a product to market only to see people on forums say "Skip
> buying it from Jim for , you can build the same thing by yourself
> for $ from AliExpress parts or buy this eBay knockoff for 2X$", I will
> admit that is somewhat infuriating. If the hobby communi
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