The world is not black + white, but our right to decide our freedom is. Why you aren't publishing Slack source code? Will this question drive us to the two models discussion?
We are here for Ubuntu & Gnome projects, and the first principle is IT freedom, not sparkly features. Let's do a better community communication tool with FLOSS. (or release Slack source code as FLOSS) El 28/02/16 a les 10:53, Tim ha escrit: > > > On 28/02/16 20:39, Narcis Garcia wrote: >> I don't understand why we discussing here about changing free software >> model by privative software model. > We are not talking about changing the software model. >> >> Tim, I feel that this list is intended to a (composed) FLOSS project and >> its growing with this model, and not for proprietary proposals >> discussing advantadges of privative software model. > Ubuntu GNOME is fully FLOSS, and always will be, but I see little reason to > disqualify proprietry services that can help out our project, purely > on political/freedom grounds >> >> You can create a Slack channel called something like >> "floss-vs-proprietary" and invite people to thiscuss this subject there, >> and not here. >> Here it's becoming like discussing football advantadges in a chess >> factory mailing list. We've already decided to contribute and grow FLOSS >> model. > You do realise that many of the big proprietry service providers are heavy > contributors to the open source world right? my email provider > commits all their changes to cyrus (email server) but the service is > proprietry. Crossover are the top contributors to Wine, yet its a > proprietry product. Apple maintain Webkit which is used by quite a few GNOME > apps. Yet you will notice that most of these are under BSD/MIT type > more permissive licenses, the world is not black + white like Stallman might > have you believe. >> FLOSS community can be wrong, but many people have already taken a >> decision about their freedom. Contrary to this, most of proprietary >> software&services users hadn't the opportunity to take same decision >> about their freedom. >> >> >> El 28/02/16 a les 10:06, Usama Akkad ha escrit: >>> I asked a question: for now to see what is going on with Ubuntu Gnome we >>> visit this link. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-gnome/ >>> >>> no registration required, publicly visible and indexed by search engines. >>> >>> How communication in Slack would be compared to that? >>> >>> On 28-02-2016 00:34, Tim wrote: >>>> >>>> On 27/02/16 22:11, Usama Akkad wrote: >>>>> Will slack allow more communications to be hidden from the public too? >>>>> If so this is another thing that we should use try to avoid. >>>> How did you come to that conclusion? We are not trying to hide >>>> communications, more the opposite, to make it easier for new comers to >>>> catch up >>>> on things. >>>> > > -- Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list Ubuntu-GNOME@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome
