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Stephen Paul Weber posted, “Protecting users from corporate negligence: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/38992.html” @ 2015-355.884Z
singpolyma starred dellis23/ispy. @ 2015-355.869Z
singpolyma commented on I use CCleaner as my go to uninstaller. Open source alternative suggestions? at Reddit, saying
If you're switching away from windows, most distros don't have these issues because the package manager knows about what is installed and can properly remove it.

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singpolyma commented on "Some companies have withdrawn from funding us [Software Freedom Conservancy] and some have even successfully pressured conferences to cancel or prevent talks on our [GPL] enforcement work." at Reddit, saying
https://sfconservancy.org/members/services/

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singpolyma commented on "Some companies have withdrawn from funding us [Software Freedom Conservancy] and some have even successfully pressured conferences to cancel or prevent talks on our [GPL] enforcement work." at Reddit, saying
They have their goal and current progress in the header of their website

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singpolyma commented on "Some companies have withdrawn from funding us [Software Freedom Conservancy] and some have even successfully pressured conferences to cancel or prevent talks on our [GPL] enforcement work." at Reddit, saying

Is libressl a drop-in replacement?

Yes, though if you're using some of the more baroque features of OpenSSL they're not supported. libressl is definitely the future
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singpolyma commented on "Some companies have withdrawn from funding us [Software Freedom Conservancy] and some have even successfully pressured conferences to cancel or prevent talks on our [GPL] enforcement work." at Reddit, saying
Switching to GPLv3 would be very difficult for a project like Linux, and Linus doesn't seen an advantage that would justify all that non-coding effort

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singpolyma commented on "Some companies have withdrawn from funding us [Software Freedom Conservancy] and some have even successfully pressured conferences to cancel or prevent talks on our [GPL] enforcement work." at Reddit, saying

The SFC has a very narrow focus, which is to provide GPL enforcement (for any software licensed under the GPL)

In fact, the SFC is primarily purposed with providing support services for their member projects (https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/) — one of those services is GPL enforcement, but they also have many other important services (such as enabling projects to give tax receipts for donations, etc).
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singpolyma commented on "Some companies have withdrawn from funding us [Software Freedom Conservancy] and some have even successfully pressured conferences to cancel or prevent talks on our [GPL] enforcement work." at Reddit, saying
The SFC works to support free software projects (https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/) to provide them with all the services they need to accept charitable donations, etc, as well as some others such as enforcement services, etc.

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singpolyma commented on Conservancy needs 750 Supporters to continue its basic community services & 2,500 to avoid hibernating its enforcement efforts! The next 78 supporters who sign up by December 24th will count twice thanks to an anonymous match donor! at Reddit, saying
Currently they do not even support recurring subscriptions.

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singpolyma commented on Sailfish UX and Apps are proprietary in Sailfish OS at Reddit, saying
Maybe more free. But Replicant is still Android… I just want to run debian on my devices. No more half-baked "mobile OS"

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singpolyma commented on issue mordak/Term48#8. @ 2015-353.613Z
singpolyma closed issue mordak/Term48#8. @ 2015-353.613Z
Stephen Paul Weber posted, “RT @aantonop CISA, the "Son of Patriot Act", passed the House. No warrants, all data. Don’t lobby. Don’t vote. Don’t whine. Don’t plead. ENCRYPT.” repost of @ 2015-353.588Z
singpolyma commented on Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Question at Reddit, saying
Why is that ideal?

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singpolyma commented on Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Question at Reddit, saying
I don't know how a cc license will end up working out. Obviously it would be in the spirit of the license for you to provide schematics to people who purchase your product, but that may not be strictly required by the license.

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singpolyma commented on Jolla is back in business! | Jolla Blog at Reddit, saying
A tablet that is crap to use I could work with. No tablet leaves me where I started.

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singpolyma commented on Jolla is back in business! | Jolla Blog at Reddit, saying
Software already exists. Maybe some tweaks were needed for larger screen size or no cell radio? But certainly most of the money from a tablet crowdfunding should go to a tablet and not to a company's other pet projects…

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singpolyma commented on Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Question at Reddit, saying
That's not how copyright works. Your changes are always your own. However, in order to be allowed the use the parts from the original at all you must abide by the terms of the license. In this case, that means your schematics must be BY-SA as well. If you want to work out specific details of how that applies to specific things you want to do I suggest you engage a lawyer who specialises in copyright.

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On 2015-351

singpolyma commented on issue mordak/Term48#8. @ 2015-352.965Z
singpolyma commented on issue mordak/Term48#8. @ 2015-352.965Z
singpolyma commented on Help! Designing a enterprise social network. at Reddit, saying
You might want to investigate GNU Social or Known.

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singpolyma commented on Help! Designing a enterprise social network. at Reddit, saying
anything you build will probably be a higher-cost shallow copy of something awesome that already exists. Hard to make reccos without knowing any requirements, though.

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On 2015-350

singpolyma commented on GPL vs Apache/MIT licenses - The ethical dilemma in Open source at Reddit, saying
Yeah, I'm not sure why all the GPL hate has come up recently. Some people seem to be developing this idea that GPL use in unethical, and yet those same people have no problem with the "all rights reserved" license…

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singpolyma commented on GPL vs Apache/MIT licenses - The ethical dilemma in Open source at Reddit, saying

imposes restrictions on the commercial users of their software

Untrue. In fact, the free software definition requires that all uses (including commercial) be permitted
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singpolyma commented on issue jitsi/jitsi-meet#96. @ 2015-351.655Z

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Stephen Paul Weber posted, “RT @mlinksva Will the @UnsplashBook itself be under an open license? I can’t discern from https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikaelcho/the-unsplash-book/#project_faq_155881 … cf http://opendefinition.org” repost of @ 2015-349.768Z
singpolyma commented on Why I'm not using your open source project at Reddit, saying
Especially like this:

When you rip on a project or someone for their choice of license you are being gigantic jerk

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singpolyma commented on Why I'm not using your open source project at Reddit, saying
Because he feels entitled to use the work for whatever he wants, including not allowing others to feel similarly entitled about his work?

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singpolyma commented on Why I'm not using your open source project at Reddit, saying

you can modify the source of something licensed under the GPL and you DO NOT need to provide the source code so long as you do not distribute it or do not publish it somewhere?

That is correct.
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singpolyma commented on Why I'm not using your open source project at Reddit, saying
The rise of all this unsubstantiated GPL hate is interesting to me.

I always have, and for now still do, license most of my code ISC. But I don't think I've ever hated the GPL with the kind of blind rage this and other posts seem to have.

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singpolyma commented on Looking for the best free software for video editing at Reddit, saying
OpenShot

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singpolyma commented on issue mordak/Term48#4. @ 2015-346.747Z
singpolyma deleted branch mdc-implementation at singpolyma/php-gpg. @ 2015-346.745Z
singpolyma commented on Hosted, free software alternative to Slack? at Reddit, saying
create xmpp account anywhere (like blah.im or yax.im) and then make a chatroom on public server (like on chat.yax.im)

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On 2015-344

singpolyma commented on issue mordak/Term48#4. @ 2015-345.927Z
singpolyma commented on issue mordak/Term48#4. @ 2015-345.917Z
singpolyma commented on issue mordak/Term48#4. @ 2015-345.913Z
singpolyma commented on issue mordak/Term48#4. @ 2015-345.905Z
singpolyma commented on issue mordak/Term48#4. @ 2015-345.904Z
singpolyma commented on issue mordak/Term48#4. @ 2015-345.904Z
singpolyma commented on issue mordak/Term48#4. @ 2015-345.900Z
singpolyma commented on Looking for a freedom-friendly Single-Board / SoC at Reddit, saying
It is my understanding that if you build a kernel without this firmware (such as linux-libre) you should be fine on that front.

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singpolyma commented on "...He was shocked. 'Android belongs to Google. How could someone change it in China?'" at Reddit, saying
"free as in speech" doesn't mean no charge but rather "free as in freedom" as in libre as in liberty.

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singpolyma commented on Looking for a freedom-friendly Single-Board / SoC at Reddit, saying
If you get the version with wifi/bluetooth they require blobs. The FSF talks about iMX.6 on a different page I think and how the video codec coprocessor requires a blob, but you don't need to use that. It's the same SoC as Novena.

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singpolyma commented on Looking for a freedom-friendly Single-Board / SoC at Reddit, saying
Hummingboard — free GPU drivers are getting more usable all the time.

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On 2015-343

singpolyma commented on issue jasonhinkle/php-gpg#22. @ 2015-344.869Z
singpolyma commented on issue jasonhinkle/php-gpg#21. @ 2015-344.793Z
singpolyma starred muan/mojibar. @ 2015-344.772Z
singpolyma commented on issue singpolyma/wai-session#12. @ 2015-344.702Z
Stephen Paul Weber posted, “UNSUBSCRIBE FROM EVERY SPAM” @ 2015-344.695Z
singpolyma commented on issue singpolyma/wai-session#12. @ 2015-344.692Z
singpolyma commented on What to do when others upload your Creative Commons music for sale? at Reddit, saying

I am going to go through and comment on the ones that are not theirs directing people to the official release

That is the best solution
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singpolyma commented on pull request jasonhinkle/php-gpg#20. @ 2015-344.653Z
singpolyma pushed to mdc-implementation at singpolyma/php-gpg. @ 2015-344.652Z
Stephen Paul Weber posted, “Why it’s ok that you won’t switch to transit: https://facebook.com/mikeboos/posts/10101427153186597” @ 2015-344.573Z
singpolyma commented on What to do when others upload your Creative Commons music for sale? at Reddit, saying
They can't really prevent it from happening — even if they had "all rights reserved" that only gives them the legal right to have it take down and/or sue. You can never fully prevent it.

As it is, their best bet is probably to post their own music for sale themselves, and use their brand and fanbase to make their official postings the most popular ones. The people posting their music are doing nothing wrong, and especially if the band is not listed on that platform yet are doing a service exactly in the spirit of the license.

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singpolyma commented on issue jasonhinkle/php-gpg#21. @ 2015-344.550Z
singpolyma commented on Macbook 2,1 vs Lenovo X60 at Reddit, saying
I have an X60 running libreboot. One of the best machines I ever had (except the battery life)

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singpolyma commented on issue mordak/Term48#4. @ 2015-344.024Z

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