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  1. Máirín Máirín

    question: if floss hackers had a uniform, what would it be?

    about 13 hours ago from Pino at Boston, Massachusetts, United States
    • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva

      @mairin we loather uniformity. dressing freedom and free code for all ;-)

      about 12 hours ago
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    John Sullivan John Sullivan Debian , GNU's Not Unix , Free Software Foundation

    ITWire covers my #FOSDEM presentation on number of A/L/GPL licensed packages in !Debian: http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/52838-gpl-use-in-debian-on-the-rise-study !fsf !gnu

    about 17 hours ago from status.wjsullivan.net at Boston, Massachusetts, United States
    • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva GNU's Not Unix , Free Software Foundation , Mike Linksvayer

      @john's FOSDEM slides with all the data showing growth of GPL use at http://ur1.ca/884qk (via @mlinksva)

      about 16 hours ago
  3. Aracele Torres Aracele Torres

    Um colega de Israel perguntando pelo face o que quer dizer a música do Michel TelUó! Nem sei o que dizer a ele.

    about a day ago from Choqok at São Paulo, Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
    • Filipe Saraiva repeated this.
    • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva

      @araceletorres diz minha filha que é conversa entre chinelo e barata: “ai, se eu te pego” “assim você me mata”

      about 19 hours ago
    • Albino Biasutti Neto Albino Biasutti Neto Alexandre Oliva

      Muito bom, kkkk RT lxoliveira @araceletorres diz minha filha que é conversa entre chinelo e barata: “ai, se eu te pego” “assim você me mata”

      about 17 hours ago
  4. Schestowitz Schestowitz

    GPL use in Debian on the rise: study http://ur1.ca/87rr7 #gpl

    about a day ago from Brdcst it
    • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva John Sullivan

      ♻ @schestowitz: GPL use in Debian on the rise: study http://ur1.ca/87rr7 // thanks @johnsu01

      about 21 hours ago
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    Charles Occupy Roth Charles Occupy Roth

    If corporations are “persons” then they should be forced to dissolve and liquidate their assets after 75 years.

    about 2 days ago from parlementum.net
    • laurelrusswurm and Mikael repeated this.
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      DJ Dougernaut DJ Dougernaut lnxwalt280

      if we are going to start from scratch, we can probably do better than 75-years or a random-number generator, but fair enough.

      about a day ago
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      DJ Dougernaut DJ Dougernaut

      while the limits of responsiveness might have changed with increase of technology size is important. once a certain lev…

      about a day ago
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      DJ Dougernaut DJ Dougernaut

      also, we need to guard against faction, which clearly largeness does not actually do...or maybe it does it to an extent…

      about a day ago
  6. Danny Piccirillo Danny Piccirillo GNU's Not Unix , LibrePlanet , Richard Stallman

    @rms "People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world." - Richard M. Stallman http://redd.it/psz19 !gnu !lp

    about 2 days ago from web
    • Evan Prodromou, gdk and Christopher Allan Webber and 11 others like this.
    • Víctor Salmerón, Evan Prodromou and Christopher Allan Webber and 7 others repeated this.
    • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva GNU's Not Unix , LibrePlanet , Christopher Allan Webber

      @dpic wouldn't it have been funnier if he'd said “Batshit!” :-) /cc @cwebber

      about a day ago
    • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva GNU's Not Unix , LibrePlanet , Richard Stallman

      ♻ @dpic: @rms "People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world." - Richard M. Stallman http://redd.it/psz19

      about a day ago
      Matías Gabriel Ventura (emegeve) likes this.
    • Guy Fawkes Guy Fawkes

      This quote is so beautiful.

      about a day ago
  7. yareckon yareckon

    Apple starts closing off OS X like iOS... Mountain Lion will run only apps signed with an Apple key by default http://ur1.ca/87mib

    about 2 days ago from Choqok
    • Christopher Allan Webber likes this.
    • Samat K Jain, Christopher Allan Webber, Iraklis Athanasakis and Kal Eido repeated this.
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    • Christopher Allan Webber Christopher Allan Webber Christopher Allan Webber

      It's "optional" for now. But the frogs, they keep on boilin'... the slopes, they keep on slippin'

      about 2 days ago
      sdp, Kal Eido and Jason Self like this.
    • Gabriel Saldana Gabriel Saldana Christopher Allan Webber

      @cwebber oh yes I remember. Still as things are happening, people still don't see it

      about 2 days ago
    • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva Christopher Allan Webber

      ♻ @cwebber: Remember 8 years ago when people said FSF&friends were batshit crazy for saying someday iphone-like lockdown' hit your computer?

      about a day ago
  8. yareckon yareckon

    Apple starts closing off OS X like iOS... Mountain Lion will run only apps signed with an Apple key by default http://ur1.ca/87mib

    about 2 days ago from Choqok Repeated by cwebber
  9. Wikileaks Wikileaks

    Exposing corruption is priceless. It is also very expensive. Support #WikiLeaks. Please Donate http://t.co/p9sRRwCE

    about 2 days ago from bti at Everywhere Branch, Missouri, United States
    • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva

      ♻ @wikileaks2: Exposing corruption is priceless. It is also very expensive. Support #WikiLeaks. Please Donate http://t.co/p9sRRwCE

      about 2 days ago
  10. Cyber Killer Cyber Killer GNU's Not Unix , Free Software Foundation , Free Software Foundation Europe

    This is the last straw - I'm stop reading #wired - they are spreading FUD about the !gpl http://ur1.ca/87azz !fsf !fsfe !gnu :-/

    about 2 days ago from Choqok at Koszalin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
    • gryps75, Захария Стургин and David Mitchel repeated this.
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    • Matija Šuklje Matija Šuklje Free Software Foundation Europe , Matija Šuklje

      @cyberkiller: To handle that issue #AGPLv3 was made.

      about 2 days ago
    • Matija Šuklje Matija Šuklje Free Software Foundation Europe

      @cyberkiller: I understand why businesses would prefer lax licenses, but business is not always in the best interest of the end-user.

      about 2 days ago
    • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva Free Software Foundation Europe , Matija Šuklje

      ♻ @hook: I understand why businesses would prefer lax licenses, but business is not always in the best interest of the end-user.

      about 2 days ago
  11. Máirín Máirín

    wow, seriously? gnash doesn't work with firefox when you install it? and you expect people to use it why?

    about 3 days ago from Pino at Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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    • Máirín Máirín Alexandre Oliva

      @lxoliva it doesn't appear so...? the one hint at providing a browser plugin was a 404 link to an ubuntu ppa

      about 3 days ago
    • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva

      @mairin if not, this is something that Fedora should document, for it's Fedora's packaging decision out of a single gnash upstream tarball

      about 3 days ago
    • Máirín Máirín Alexandre Oliva

      @lxoliva they do, it's on the fedora wiki. sadly i did a general internet search and it wasn't in the first couple of pages of hits

      about 3 days ago
  12. Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva gnewsense users , Linux-libre project , 龙芯 Dragon Chip

    !linuxlibre 3.2.6-libre-lemote, 3.0.21-libre-lemote, 2.6.32.57-libre2-lemote and 2.6.27.61-libre5-lemote debs for !gnewsense !yeeloong out

    about 3 days ago from Emacs Identica-mode
    • Glyn Moody Glyn Moody

      #TPP: Welcome to the global war on intermediaries - http://bit.ly/zxCSek teh best quick summary of why this is so bad #ACTA #SOPA

      about 3 days ago from web at London, England, United Kingdom
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      • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva

        ♻ @glynmoody: #TPP: Welcome to the global war on intermediaries - http://bit.ly/zxCSek teh best quick summary of why this is so bad

        about 3 days ago
      • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva

        @glynmoody so it's intermediaries vs intermediaries, eh?

        about 3 days ago
      • Glyn Moody Glyn Moody Alexandre Oliva

        yup, choose wisely...

        about 3 days ago
    • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva

      I can't see the weather forecast on TV because the satellite signal is jammed by a thunderstorm #ohtheirony

      about 3 days ago from Emacs Identica-mode
      • David E. Narváez David E. Narváez

        @lxoliva you have a dependency problem... maybe changing your package manager?

        about 3 days ago
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn

      #ELC2012: #pfefferz's talk, "Binary Blobs Attack!!!" is about to begin. http://ur1.ca/86six

      about 3 days ago from web
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      • Sander Sander Evan Prodromou

        @evan but you can try molding them by hand.

        about 3 days ago
      • Gordon Sinclair Gordon Sinclair rpcutts , Sander

        @sandersch http://goo.gl/jieNR @rpcutts

        about 3 days ago
      • Sander Sander Gordon Sinclair

        @thistleweb I am not that drunk.

        about 3 days ago
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Free as in Freedom , karen sandler

      @kaz & I got an email from a !FaiFCast listener in Sri Lanka, who says he & 2 of his friends there enjoy the show a lot. Wow! I'm amazed!

      about 3 days ago from web
      • Deb Nicholson likes this.
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        Kevin Granade Kevin Granade Alexandre Oliva

        @lxoliva I live in Sri Lanka?!? This is news to me!

        about 3 days ago
      • r7 r7 Kevin Granade

        @kevingranade we are all #srilankans

        about 3 days ago
      • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva Kevin Granade

        @kevingranade Sri Lanka must have annexed Brazil, US, and the rest of the world recently. WWUSSL or something ;-)

        about 3 days ago
    • Glyn Moody Glyn Moody

      International publisher alliance shuts down piracy site - http://bit.ly/w0ElzI publishers want to join in the fun (v @SinkDeep) #ebooks

      about 3 days ago from web at London, England, United Kingdom
      • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva

        @glynmoody and some gave me odd looks when I referred to “publishing industries” to covermovie, music, sw and book publishers...

        about 3 days ago
      • Glyn Moody Glyn Moody

        perhaps we should just call them digital publishers...

        about 3 days ago
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      sweet sweet GNU's Not Unix , Free Software Foundation

      Can somebody explain me how a permissive software license like apache can bring the software to a “much wider audienc…

      about 3 days ago from parlementum.net at Siquirres, Provincia de Limón, Costa Rica
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      • Jose R Rodriguez Jose R Rodriguez Alexandre Oliva

        "Our clients licensed BusyBox under… #GPL to ensure that [C || C∈B] of the program can access/modify its source code" http://ur1.ca/86s6t

        about 3 days ago
      • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva Jose R Rodriguez

        @metztli the C∈B is entirely your own groundless speculation. nothing in GPL requires distributor to offer the sw to co-contributors

        about 3 days ago
      • Jose R Rodriguez Jose R Rodriguez Alexandre Oliva

        "C∈B is entirely your own groundless speculation" ;D

        about 3 days ago
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Greg K-H

      #Corbet at #ELC2012 quotes @gregkh's blog from 1 year ago: http://ur1.ca/362xt re: #Ralink working upstream. Corbet says this isn't uncommon

      about 3 days ago from web
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      • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn

        #ELC2012: #Corbet says "We do not take the security problem serious enough" making reference to kernel.org compromise.

        about 3 days ago
      • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva

        @bkuhn IOW (MSNBC/MSBBC headline for this): Jon Corbet says Linux is going to die ;-)

        about 3 days ago
      • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Linux , Greg K-H

        #ELC2012: #Corbet jokes: "What's @gregkh up to at new !Linux Foundation job, given that his first act was to send patches to #LibreOffice?"

        about 3 days ago
    • Aurélien Aurélien LibrePlanet , Fundación Software Libre América Latina , Free Software Corsica

      !Linux-libre 3.2.6 .deb Now available at !FSFLA & !FSC + receipe update on !Libreplanet

      about 3 days ago from Emacs Identica-mode
      • Tomás Solar Castro repeated this.
      • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva LibrePlanet , Fundación Software Libre América Latina

        ♻ @gnutek: #Linux-libre 3.2.6 .deb Now available at #FSFLA & #FSC + receipe update on #Libreplanet

        about 3 days ago
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