Re: open source or free software?

2014-09-04 Thread John Sullivan
Daniel Pocock writes: > On 28/08/14 08:16, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 06:05:55PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: >>>"JSHint is open source and will always stay this way."[2] >>> >>>"To be honest, I'm getting tired of these not-true-open-source talks. >>> Out of all thin

Re: Cooperation with the FSF?

2014-09-05 Thread John Sullivan
Hi Ansgar, Ansgar Burchardt writes: > Hi, > > elsewhere I heard that there was some talk (also including people from > the FSF) about cooperation with the FSF. > > Could anybody tell a bit more what current ideas are? I just remember > the fsf-collab-discuss list on Alioth with sadly died rather

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-06-03 Thread John Sullivan
generated now at http://h-node.com. The FSF is also consolidating its former compatible hardware database there. Since h-node lists hardware that works without proprietary drivers or proprietary firmware, it should be a good fit for Debian main from Squeeze on. -john -- -John Sullivan -http://wj

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-06-03 Thread John Sullivan
Ben Hutchings writes: > On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 11:42 -0400, John Sullivan wrote: >> Thomas Goirand writes: >> >> > The point is to have a system so that manufacturers can write "this >> > system supports Debian". If they don't want to do the work

Re: FSF not considering Debian as Free (Re: Debian and non-free)

2008-09-20 Thread John Sullivan
t suggests getting non-free software from there. > > I'm very curious what part of the website or Debian would be doing this for > years, but I guess someone could ask Richard. I haven't been following this thread super-close, so sorry if I missed someone already throwing this

Re: What is preventing Debian from being fully free at this moment?

2009-07-30 Thread John Sullivan
#x27;t offer me gNewSense, it's based on Ubuntu 8.04 and I'd prefer > Debian above Ubuntu. The MIPS port of gNewSense (used on the Lemote netbook for example) is based on Debian. -- -John Sullivan -Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.deb