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lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Monday, 11-Jun-2012 11:26:49 EDT 
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unhappy 1984 ♻ @rysiek: "Anti-Piracy Patent Stops Students From Sharing Textbooks" bit.ly/KmZAPY - @rms warned about in "Right to read" -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Monday, 28-May-2012 21:39:02 EDT
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duh! “the !FS community overreacted; it wasn't about patents on sw, but on machines that loaded with sw do something innovative” -INPI head -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Wednesday, 23-May-2012 13:24:07 EDT
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♻ @arnebab: “Why I Still Use #Emacs ” → http://ur1.ca/89mtu — solid reasons for using the one true s/editor/development environment/ -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Friday, 18-May-2012 15:58:26 EDT
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@dhraakellian yup, despite FUD and mudslinging, @rms is living proof that one can be both principled and pragmatic at the same time -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Friday, 18-May-2012 15:14:15 EDT
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@silner they might be good for Linux, with its apolitical and amoral stance, but non-Free games are definitely bad for GNU and FS -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2012 15:27:12 EDT
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@dhraakellian 1. false (e.g. Tivoized, or RPL-licensed software), and 2. true (obvious consequence of 1.) -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2012 06:57:45 EDT
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hey, after Spherical Cow, Fedora 19 can be Cubic !Gnu. can a popular distro be !freesoftware from all the *right* angles? :-) -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Wednesday, 02-May-2012 12:25:57 EDT
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@fontana I wish more FLOSS proponents would see that. too bad OSI didn't expand Perens' criteria like Debian did -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Wednesday, 02-May-2012 12:23:11 EDT
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@fontana there are various other kinds of legal, technical, social, etc obstacles to freedom, even when it comes to software -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Wednesday, 02-May-2012 12:22:23 EDT
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@fontana of course! freedom means *no* obstable prevents its enjoyment; -ENOSRC and ©opyrestrictions are just two common obstacles -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Wednesday, 02-May-2012 11:32:12 EDT
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@fontana I (&FSF) agree it may be in some cases, but that doesn't make it so in all cases, let alone without plausible evidence -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Wednesday, 02-May-2012 11:30:26 EDT
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@fontana [software] freedom is about the [4] freedoms one retains; licenses are just one of many means to take them away -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Wednesday, 02-May-2012 11:29:14 EDT
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@fontana yeah, thank you! even OSI, whose defn obsesses about properties of licenses, goes beyond that in some bullets -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Wednesday, 02-May-2012 09:25:32 EDT
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@fontana huh? stealth copyleft? now you totally lost me. can you elaborate? -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Tuesday, 01-May-2012 21:05:46 EDT
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@fontana that sounded like an admission of preemptive defeat :-( -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Tuesday, 01-May-2012 20:29:14 EDT
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@fontana because they misunderstand the license, or because they don't want to respect users' freedoms? -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Tuesday, 01-May-2012 19:06:52 EDT
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@fontana if it was sure, it would know others would join in regardless of conditions to keep derivatives OSS -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Tuesday, 01-May-2012 19:05:58 EDT
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@fontana sounds like Red Hat is uncertain about the OSS proposition that OSS is more beneficial to all involved parties -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Tuesday, 01-May-2012 18:50:49 EDT
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@bkuhn by preemptive defeat I mean giving up core values to get popularity for something that won't be aligned with the core values -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Tuesday, 01-May-2012 18:49:11 EDT
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@bkuhn well, given the existence of AL contender, it could have been tested now, but Red Hat chose the pyrrhic preemptive defeat instead
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