Find Free Software a New Voice

2011-10-08 Thread Tom Balazs
http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/10/why-fsf-founder-richard-stallm.php "It's time for free software to find a new voice. Once again, Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman is putting his feet firmly in his mouth. This time, Stallman says that he's glad Steve Jobs is gone

Re: Find Free Software a New Voice

2011-10-08 Thread Stan Goodman
On Saturday 08 October 2011 15:18:44 Tom Balazs wrote: > http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/10/why-fsf-founder-richar > d-stallm.php > > "It's time for free software to find a new voice. Once again, Free > Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman is putting his feet > firmly in his mo

Re: Find Free Software a New Voice

2011-10-08 Thread Steve G.
Maybe we should start a Facebook group to get rid of RMS, an open source Arab Spring or Social Justice movement... Unfortunately being an idiot is not against the law. 2011/10/8 Tom Balazs > > http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/10/why-fsf-founder-richard-stallm.php > > "It's time for

[HAIFUX LECTURE] How to Participate in the Linux Kernel Development (and Why) by Baruch Siach

2011-10-08 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, October 10th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Baruch Siach talk about How to Participate in the Linux Kernel Development (and Why) Abstract The Linux kernel is one of the largest scale free software projects. More than thousand developers contribute code to each kernel re

For people who use the Scheme programming language

2011-10-08 Thread Omer Zak
Three years ago I developed a library (PyGuile) for invoking Python modules from Scheme (run under the Guile interpreter) scripts. Blog articles: http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/category/pyguile/ Download: http://www.zak.co.il/a/itches/pyguile If you write in Scheme, I'll appreciate if you let me k

Re: Find Free Software a New Voice

2011-10-08 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Steve G. wrote: Unfortunately being an idiot is not against the law. Hence this thread. -- Matan Ziv-Av. ma...@svgalib.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/m

Re: Find Free Software a New Voice

2011-10-08 Thread Stan Goodman
On Saturday 08 October 2011 20:46:04 Steve G. wrote: > Maybe we should start a Facebook group to get rid of RMS, an open > source Arab Spring or Social Justice movement... > > Unfortunately being an idiot is not against the law. > > 2011/10/8 Tom Balazs Nobody has ever suggested prosecuting RM

Re: Find Free Software a New Voice

2011-10-08 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Stan, Steve, I think I mentioned once before, let's think about who *is* worthy to be the voice of Open Source rather than who who *isn't*. IMHO, RMS should be ignored at this point. He made great contributions in the past, but now it's time for a different voice. - yba On Sat, 8 Oct 20

Re: Find Free Software a New Voice

2011-10-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 10/08/2011 11:47 PM, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > Hi Stan, Steve, > I think I mentioned once before, let's think about who *is* worthy to > be the voice of Open Source rather than who who *isn't*. IMHO, RMS > should be ignored at this point. He made great contributions in the > past, but now it

Re: Find Free Software a New Voice

2011-10-08 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 9, 2011, at 6:56 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: There is a process that threatens any successful grass root movement, of being hijacked by close but non-identical agenda. People were worried that Microsoft might try to take over Hamakor, but looking back, that was never a real threat.