Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-13 Thread Andres G. Aragoneses
On 13/10/14 05:29, Richard Stallman wrote: Would it be possible for you to, instead of repeatedly bringing up the subject of Free Software vs Open Source and GNU/Linux vs Linux, do this privately, off the list? It is not possible for a private response to be effective. When error

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Would it be possible for you to, instead of repeatedly bringing up the subjec

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Would it be possible for you to, instead of repeatedly bringing up the subjec

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Would it be possible for you to, instead of repeatedly bringing up the subjec

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Would it be possible for you to, instead of repeatedly bringing up the subjec

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Would it be possible for you to, instead of repeatedly bringing up the subjec

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-12 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Would it be possible for you to, instead of repeatedly bringing up the subjec

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-05 Thread Claudio Saavedra
On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 08:53 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > GNOME is part of the GNU Project, whose goal is freedom for users. > Not only that, but GNOME in particular was started to protect users > from a specific threat to their freedom (nonfree Qt). > > So freedom is at the heart of GNOME and

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-05 Thread Lefty
On Sep 30, 2014, at 5:01 PM, James wrote: > > Causing me to waste more internets time I've just looked up: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev Here: “waste” some more time, and get an education: http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindness-weev-and-the-cult-of-the-angry-you

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-05 Thread Lefty
On Sep 30, 2014, at 4:48 PM, James wrote: > > I'd personally recommend you avoid getting angry at your MUA, read > this (rudely titled, but well written) article: > https://weev.livejournal.com/409835.html?nojs=1 and get back to > hacking :) Oh, you’d personally recommend the opinion of the guy

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-03 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Bountysource charges a 10% commission on each bounty. Section 6.5 of their To

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 17:00 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > Thus, rather than finding the answers elsewhere and (possibly) raising > _objections_ next week, I decided to raise _questions_ this week. Can > people interested in using Bountysource please find out the pertinent > facts about it? Hi,

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-02 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I think it would help if next time you please checked third party sites when

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-02 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-10-01 08:53, Richard Stallman wrote: GNOME is part of the GNU Project, whose goal is freedom for users. Not only that, but GNOME in particular was started to protect users from a specific threat to their freedom (nonfree Qt). So freedom is at the heart of GNOME and should never be forgo

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-01 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] GNOME is part of the GNU Project, whose goal is freedom for users. Not only that, but

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-09-30 Thread James
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:01 PM, James wrote: > > > Causing me to waste more internets time I've just looked up: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev > > And so I apologize if I have chosen someone with a tainted past to > refer you all to. I don't think the link above had anything > questionabl

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-09-30 Thread James
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Lefty wrote: > https://weev.livejournal.com/409835.html?nojs=1 and get back to > hacking :) > > > Oh, you’d personally recommend the opinion of the guy who hounded Kathy > Sierra off the web entirely. Causing me to waste more internets time I've just looked up:

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-09-30 Thread James
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Lefty wrote: > Oh, you’d personally recommend the opinion of the guy who hounded Kathy > Sierra off the web entirely. I don't know the author of the post personally at all, nor anything about his background. > > That’s an apropos choice. > > Richard could certain

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-09-30 Thread James
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 15:24 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: >> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] >> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] >> [[[ foreign or domestic, requir

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-09-30 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 15:24 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] So, this is a bit an

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-09-30 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I'm not sure I understand Richard. Out of curiosity, have you used Bountysou

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-09-30 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-09-29 at 17:34 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > While Bountysource is interesting, I also think that we need to be > rather careful about adopting it. On top of your concerns, their 10% commission is quite high, and their terms of service are absurd [1], so I would advocate removing funds f

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-09-30 Thread Andres G. Aragoneses
On 29/09/14 22:50, Richard Stallman wrote: If the GNOME Foundation is considering inviting members of the community to use Bountysource to communicate with the Foundation, that I'm not sure I understand Richard. Out of curiosity, have you used Bountysource? It doesn't incorporate a messaging s

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-09-29 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] If the GNOME Foundation is considering inviting members of the community to use Bount

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-09-29 Thread Allan Day
Jeff Fortin wrote: ... > The board will be having its regular meeting this Friday at 16h UTC. > Here is an overview of the agenda/topics for this meeting: ... > * Bountysource account for the Foundation ... While Bountysource is interesting, I also think that we need to be rather careful about