Re: European Commission Event "Open Source beyond 2020" (DG CNECT/DIGIT)

Hello, I will be at the event and speak on two panels. I am not going to represent FSFE, though. Best, Mirko. > On 7. Oct 2019, at 14:56, Harald Welte wrote: > > I recently heard about the event "Open Source beyond 2020" by the European > Commission [1] and was wondering if anyone from the F

Re: negative campaigning?

Hello, I am one of the people that have argued against negative campaigning in the past. From the discussion however, even after many emails there is still not a common understanding what it is. Daniel gave some examples, let me build on top of that: “Free Software is good as it gives you choi

Re: Is it acceptable to use proprietary software (platforms) to promote software freedom?

Hi, > On 23. Jul 2017, at 09:37, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > On 23/07/17 09:03, Evaggelos Balaskas wrote: >> Social media are now part of our life (I am not debating if they >> should or not), but diminish them to cat videos is a strong opinion. >> 90% of email is SPAM, should we stop using email?

Re: Is it acceptable to use proprietary software (platforms) to promote software freedom?

Hi, > On 23. Jun 2017, at 09:59, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> I am glad you asked. Overall global GNUsocial users rank in the >> 1000s-100.000s, as far I know. Maybe somebody has better statistics on >> that. Here is a good overview of proprietary social media >> reach: >> http://www.smartinsight

Re: Is it acceptable to use proprietary software (platforms) to promote software freedom?

Hi! > On 22. Jun 2017, at 22:05, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> It appears to me as if we conduct this discussion based on what we wish >> the world would be, instead of based on what the present world is like. >> In the perfect world, everybody would be using free software, and >> everybody would kn

Re: Is it acceptable to use proprietary software (platforms) to promote software freedom?

Hi, > On 22. Jun 2017, at 21:31, Roland Häder wrote: > >> Based on this, I would argue that FSFE needs to be present on >> proprietary platforms to be able to achieve the second part of it’s mission. > > There is an idea circulating in the fediverse about writing a free-libre > open source "yo

Re: Is it acceptable to use proprietary software (platforms) to promote software freedom?

Hi everybody! > On 21. Jun 2017, at 17:20, Federico Bruni wrote: > > Il giorno mer 21 giu 2017 alle 16:47, Daniel Pocock > ha scritto: >> - systems like facebook are made by the establishment, for the >> establishment. Zuckerberg is a regular at Bilderberg these days.

Re: UK to "end" encryption?

Hello Willi, > On 28. May 2017, at 03:21, willi uebelherr wrote: > > two emails from "D" (dguth...@posteo.net ), now > with a reference to "David Icke" from outside? > > Who are this persons? D Guthrie is a well-respected member of our community. David Icke is a

Re: A dual license system for code libraries?

Hi! > On 28 Feb 2017, at 10:11, Agner Fog wrote: > > Mirko Boehm wrote: >> I cannot speak for FSFE, but I think the setup can be made simpler: Anybody >> can donate to FSFE. Just ask them to provide proof of the donation, and then >> you give them a license. This way you don’t need any kind of

Re: A dual license system for code libraries?

Hi! > On 27 Feb 2017, at 14:40, Agner Fog wrote: > > On 27-02-2017 11:06, Mirko Boehm (FSFE) wrote: >> You will need permission/license from the other contributors to sell >> proprietary licenses. >> You need a scheme that fairly distributes the licensing reven

Re: A dual license system for code libraries?

Hello, > On 25 Feb 2017, at 09:54, Agner Fog wrote: > > Hi, I have a problem with several open source projects. Neither GPL nor LGPL > license seems to be appropriate. > > One such project is my C++ vector class library > (http://agner.org/optimize/#vectorclass >

Re: Implementing a code of conduct?

Hi, > On 3 Nov 2016, at 15:19, Erik Albers wrote: > > Are you in favor or against having a general Code of Conduct? > Are you in favor or against having this Code of Conduct? > I am slowly re-emerging out of a pile of unprocessed communication. Sorry that I am late to the party.

Re: October Newsletter /Summit

Hello, > On 11 Oct 2016, at 22:11, Paul Boddie wrote: > >> Werner Koch mailto:w...@gnupg.org>> writes: >>> I miss any mentioning of an (internal) discussion in the aftermath of a >>> very questionable talk[2] advertising proprietary software. >> >> Thank you for pointing out that talk. I was