FSF Opens Nominations For Free Software Awards 2012 56
jrepin writes "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project today announced the opening of nominations for the 15th annual Free Software Awards. The Free Software Awards include the Award for the Advancement of Free Software and the Award for Projects of Social Benefit. The Award for the Advancement of Free Software is presented annually to an individual who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software. The Award for Projects of Social Benefit is presented to the project or team responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free software movement, in a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society in other aspects of life."
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I do believe that obesity, poverty, and birthrates are all linked, at least in the U.S. Is their a correlation between obesity and poverty anywhere other than the U.S.?
I read an article about 10 years ago regarding birthrate statistics, and I remember two things specifically.
1) The age that a mother has her first child is the #1 factor in birthrate of a population (which intuitively makes sense).
2) The more educational opportunities available to girls and women, the older the average was when they have the
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A pre-release version of Windows 8 can be legally downloaded on microsoft.com [microsoft.com]. Then if you don't want to change your configuration, you can install it inside Virtual Box [virtualbox.org]. You may want to exorcise your computer after that [paperblog.fr].
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So the truth comes out about your previous comment about the GPL being bad and anglocentric and the FSF treating non-english speakers as "second class humans"
You are a Microsoft shill.
Disgusting.
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BMO
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That comment was supposed to be informative/funny. I don't care about Microsoft products and in fact don't use them. BTW you are easily disgusted.
1 hour later, only 2 comments (Score:4, Insightful)
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"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear..."
- Backtrack Linux
If an article breaches the firehose and nobody leaves a comment, does it make a thought?
- Penurious Tzu
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Nobody gives a shit because the FSF aren't seen as particularly revelant anymore. The young and upcoming geeks of the world are more interested in iOS rather than Linux because it's cooler despite being far more closed, and what few geeks who are genuinely interested in Linux are getting tired with the FSF and their advocacy appropaches, which are often themselves full of FUD and can be debunked quite easily (I'm reminded of the failed Windows7sins campaign that did absolutely nothing of value and was full
Bdale Garbee, head of SPI (Score:2)
SPI (Software in the Pubic Interest) being the umbrella group that funds Debian development. His wiki page is admirable, and Debian is strongly dedicated to Free Software principals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bdale_Garbee [wikipedia.org]
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... baby names. I don't mean shit like Trayvon or Jamal or Jerome. Or even stripper names like Destiny. I mean shit like Vagina or Chlamydia or Orangina.
In Brazil people were free to give any name they wanted to their child. AFAIK After one particularly bad case (i.e. a boy called "Um Dois Tres de Oliveria Quatro", which reads as Portuguese for "1 2 3 de Oliveira 4"), a law was placed that the public official making the child's registry may refuse a name if it believes it will expose the child to embarrassment or ridicule later. (I honestly do not know if the story associating this law with this one name is correct, but this name is real and so is the law r
There's been lot of open source action in Big Data (Score:1)
Somehow, I have trouble associating that with the betterment of mankind. Maybe LHC is using it but for the most part, it seems to be providing ways for Big Web to keep increasingly creepy tabs on their customers and visitors.
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Award for Projects of Social Benefit (Score:2)
Well, I like graphics, so what about all the work that went into MESA3 OpenGL drivers? [mesa3d.org] Most people I ask "So, what's keeping you from using Linux 100% full time?" Their answer is crappy graphics drivers and no games. In my spare time I'm working to help fix the latter part, so are many other game devs, and a working OpenGL stack is essential.... Think about it, everyone knows Linux is really strong in the server market, so it's these desktop (read: Graphics) users where there's room to grow in a "socia
What keeps you from using Linux? (Score:2)
TOR (Score:2, Insightful)
As always, TOR would be up there for me, as would the Byzantium Mesh Network and Freedombox Projects.
People often talk about privacy technology, and fantasise about file sharing and mesh applications, Those few who
bite the bullet and actually develop and push these technologies into the hands of those who most need them are to
be commended.
Re:Not very free (Score:5, Interesting)
Not sure if it's worth replying, because I doubt I'll convince you. But I shall try.
The GPL gives you Freedom 0, to run the software as you wish. In fact, the GPL states in section 9:
Freedom 1: freedom to read understand the source code. Again, there are no restrictions on this, AFAIK.
Freedom 2: freedom to modify the software. No restrictions on this, AFAIK (as long as you don't distribute).
Freedom 3: freedom to distribute and create derivative works. There are some restrictions on how you do this. For example, you must clearly state the license and derivative works must be licensed under the GPL.
If you like permissive licensing, I won't blame you. There are a lot of free software licenses that are free software licenses as well. But a lot of them have restrictions as well, e.g. acknowledgement in sources. Only software in the public domain has no restrictions, and provides "true" freedom according to your definition.
Going back to the subject, you might be interested to know that NetBSD cofounder and OpenBSD project leader Theo de Raadt was awarded the Advancement For Free Software in 2004. The advancement of free software has nothing to do with the GPL.
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My arguments still stand. You only proved your are better at math than me. Bravo!
Re:Not very free (Score:4, Informative)
> However it seems to me that using the GPL for the freedom of the peoples are shortsighted at best.
Say what?
>rant on english only
>eupl
Is written with European Union Law in mind.
To turn your argument around and do some substitution, the Eurocentrism of the EUPL is a bad thing, especially since it doesn't apply to Brazil, Philippines or China. How come the EUPL isn't translated into Brazilian Portuguese, Tagalog, or Cantonese? The European Commission certainly has more resources than the FSF, so why don't they do it?
Your argument is specious and hypocritical.
> In fact, the FSF treat non-english speaker as second-class human,
> Anglocentrism link
The reasons given in the FSF link you gave do not match up with the definition of Anglocentrism. Indeed, the first sentence in the FSF link you gave indicates that in a perfect world translations would be desirable, but due to the properties of legal language being much like a programming language and laws in different countries being, you know, different, it is not always feasible or reasonable to do so. Indeed, to make another real-world comparison, the Treaty of Tripoli is written in Arabic. An English translation presented to the US Congress was not the official one - it was there for explanation. The official ratified treaty is the Arabic version and the US is bound to it. There are other translations, like the Italian version, but that's not binding either.
But not only that, to get back to the original article and to get really on topic, the requirements for winning are not that you must be a GPL supporter. Indeed, Theo de Raadt is the most angry and vociferous troll against the GPL, yet he's won. Other winners don't necessarily have English as a first or third language. Miguel's native language is Spanish. So there goes your other claim of Anglocentrism.
You are just a troll here to bash the GPL and push Eurocentrism. Not only Eurocentrism, but European Union Centrism.
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BMO
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>It still is better than the GPL
Circular argument is circular. I think we're done here. I think you should re-read your message and smell the reeking hypocrisy.
>my inflammatory language
Like you didn't say that non-english speakers are treated like second class humans. That's not only inflammatory, it's a lie.
This makes you an asshole of the first order.
Meet your new status.
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BMO
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Circular argument is circular.
You definition of a circular argument is strange and different.
This makes you an asshole of the first order.
Using insults as an argument is very mature indeed.
You made this thread useless and boring. Thanks.
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My issue with him was not the EUPL in itself. My issue was his trolling and misstating facts about the FSF and GPL.
The FSF states that they do not have the ability to translate to other languages because they do not have the resources. You need lawyers fluent in translation *and* the laws of the target nation in order to make a faithful translation of the GPL.
He construes this as Anglocentrism, which is a word defined as "believing in english as superior" - a kind of bigotry- which the FSF's position cl
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Sigh. I'm not sure whether you're misguided or a troll. Let's assume you're sincere. Who wrote the EUPL and with what motives? It's a rhetorical question, don't answer. Just understand that the biggest long term threat to any free software community is regulatory capture. Now compare the EU against the FSF and ask, which is more resistant to capture over the next decades? That by itself should be a clear reason to not use the EUPL or any other license produced by bodies that aren't extraordinarily independe
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"Second, you're probably going to explain how Europe is the center of the world, etc. It's not. It's not even a continent."
I'm not interrested in dick-measuring contest anymore than you.
"All the EUPL can do is fragment the community"
As the EUPL allows one to re-license existing software under the GPL, this point is probably moot.
"Forth, translations? http://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.html [gnu.org] [gnu.org] lists Armenian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, Galician, German, Italian, Serbian, Slovak. I'm sure it
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Not sure if it's worth replying, because I doubt I'll convince you. But I shall try.
The GPL gives you Freedom 0, to run the software as you wish. In fact, the GPL states in section 9:
Freedom 1: freedom to read understand the source code. Again, there are no restrictions on this, AFAIK.
Freedom 2: freedom to modify the software. No restrictions on this, AFAIK (as long as you don't distribute).
Freedom 3: freedom to distribute and create derivative works. There are some restrictions on how you do this. For example, you must clearly state the license and derivative works must be licensed under the GPL.
If you like permissive licensing, I won't blame you. There are a lot of free software licenses that are free software licenses as well. But a lot of them have restrictions as well, e.g. acknowledgement in sources. Only software in the public domain has no restrictions, and provides "true" freedom according to your definition.
Wrong. This is what the 4 freedoms are - starting w/ '0' - available right on the home page of gnu.org:
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Just Voted... (Score:3)
Not large amounts, mind you, just $5 or $10 to some small projects and $20 each to a few large projects. I'm not a very generous person and this is something I should have been doing years ago, but I would like to get in the habit of routinely kicking back a few bucks each month to the various projects and organizations that enrich my life.
I don't suppose it's too late (Score:1)
Is there a Razzies Award ... (Score:2)
jQuery (Score:3)