Comment Re:What? (Score 2) 195
1) isn't correct, there are numerous open source programs leaking data and some deliberately sending data:
Comment Re:Legally speaking... (Score 1) 80
> everyone who legally got the program binaries from the company can sue for the source code
Hopefully this lawsuit against Vizio will set that precedent:
Comment Re:Legally speaking... (Score 2) 80
Conservancy is pursuing an angle similar to this right now:
Comment Re:Legally speaking... (Score 1) 80
There is an alternative way to sue for compliance being tried in the Software Freedom Conservancy vs Vizio lawsuit. The lawsuit against Vizio is interesting because they aren't suing as copyright holders, but as recipients of GPL binaries from Vizio, they say that they are a third-party beneficiary of the GPL and thus they ask the court to force Vizio to release the relevant source code. Thus they create the possibility for any user of GPL binaries to sue for source code release.
Comment FaiF and LibreLounge (Score 1) 277
Free as in Freedom: http://faif.us/
LibreLounge: https://librelounge.org/
Submission + - Razer doesn't care about Linux (gnome.org)
An anonymous reader writes: tl;dr: Donâ(TM)t buy hardware from Razer and expect firmware updates to fix security problems on Linux.
Razer is a vendor that makes high-end gaming hardware, including laptops, keyboards and mice. I opened a ticket with Razor a few days ago asking them if they wanted to support the LVFS project by uploading firmware and sharing the firmware update protocol used. I offered to upstream any example code they could share under a free license, or to write the code from scratch given enough specifications to do so. This is something Iâ(TM)ve done for other vendors, and doesnâ(TM)t take long as most vendor firmware updaters all do the same kind of thing; there are only so many ways to send a few kb of data to USB devices. The fwupd project provides high-level code for accessing USB devices, so yet-another-update-protocol is no big deal. I explained all about the LVFS, and the benefits it provided to a userbase that is normally happy to vote using their wallet to get hardware thatâ(TM)s supported on the OS of their choice.
Razer is a vendor that makes high-end gaming hardware, including laptops, keyboards and mice. I opened a ticket with Razor a few days ago asking them if they wanted to support the LVFS project by uploading firmware and sharing the firmware update protocol used. I offered to upstream any example code they could share under a free license, or to write the code from scratch given enough specifications to do so. This is something Iâ(TM)ve done for other vendors, and doesnâ(TM)t take long as most vendor firmware updaters all do the same kind of thing; there are only so many ways to send a few kb of data to USB devices. The fwupd project provides high-level code for accessing USB devices, so yet-another-update-protocol is no big deal. I explained all about the LVFS, and the benefits it provided to a userbase that is normally happy to vote using their wallet to get hardware thatâ(TM)s supported on the OS of their choice.
Comment Fuck that. (Score 2) 271
Fuck that, people who work in the classified world should just quit their jobs. Who's side are you on?
https://noisysquare.com/ethics-and-power-in-the-long-war-eleanor-saitta-dymaxion/
Comment Re:I know, I'm boring (Score 1) 203
Please come join us on the #debian-mobile IRC channel on OFTC. We would like to make Debian on tablets, handsets and other devices a reality.
Comment Re:A driver for your hardware is not available (Score 1) 386
Ubuntu probably includes a newer kernel than Debian. We'll be adding a newer kernel in lenny-and-a-half.
Comment Re:Where's python 2.6? (Score 1) 386
Python 2.6 wasn't released when the freeze for Debian lenny began. I'm sure there will be backports as soon as it gets into testing/squeeze.
Comment Re:Good to see (Score 1) 386
Mindshare is important, you need it to get an influx of developers which you need to keep up with the growth of the distribution. Personally I believe Ubuntu has been both detrimental and helpful to Debian (and FOSS in general).
Comment Re:Blu-Ray? (Score 2, Informative) 386
It was also mentioned on the dev announce list:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/01/msg00002.html
Comment Re:Blu-Ray? (Score 3, Informative) 386
IIRC you need to use jigdo to assemble them from the packages. This page hints at that:
Comment Re:A Debian release! (Score 1) 386
TS3 will be probably released before squeeze, we still have no shortage of names.
Comment Re:Best KDE 3.5 distro? (Score 2, Interesting) 386
The Debian KDE team would love any help people can give, perhaps from Kubuntu guys!
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