Non riesco a capire perché non hanno semplicemente iniziato a distribuire i sorgenti solo ai clienti paganti e/o rilasciare sotto AGPLv3… Perché prima a chiunque e poi a nessuno? La GPL non “obbliga” a rilasciare i sorgenti indiscriminatamente ma a rilasciarli solo a chi usa il programma o riceve una copia del binario.
Category: Proprietary software
Ethics, Privacy, Proprietary software, Software Libero
Why we need Software Libero
Egypt Government Used Gmail Third-Party Apps To Phish Activists – Slashdot So does anybody still need to be taught why Software Libero (i.e. Free-as-in-Freedom) is of utmost importance today for the actual freedom of people? Or better why we must ban software which does not came with readable and inspectable source code?
Ethics, Privacy, Proprietary software, Social networks
No, grazie
Caro Zukenberg, cara Facebook, Da qualche mese ho intensificato la mia presenza sulla vostra rete sociale, complice il mio rinnovato interesse per i Giochi di Ruolo. Ma da avidi ed abili collezionisti e rivenditori di dati personali conoscete perfettamente la mia predilezione per il Software Libero.
Proprietary software, Software, Software Libero
I’d rather use other DB
Dear Packt publishing, yesterday you wanted to make me a gift giving me a free copy of a book of yours. I shall thank you. One must always thanks for a gift. Yet I am somehow mithered to discover that the book deals with proprietary software. Namely Azure Cosmos DB. I strive to avoid proprietary…
Android, Proprietary hardware, Proprietary software
Apple is Another Dark Side
«Apple Hate From The Other Dark Side – Demo Insight» or the pot calling the kettle black. Apple is the new Evil Knight as much as Google
Ethics, Privacy, Proprietary software
A damning internal Facebook document
British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning internal Facebook documents that had been sealed by a US court Source: British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning internal Facebook documents that had been sealed by a US court / Boing Boing Expecially: …they show Facebookers at the highest level — up to…
Ethics, Mood, Proprietary software, Software Libero
“Own your data”, part III: Moving calendar and contacts into my ownCloud // Sebastian Greger
https://sebastiangreger.net/2014/03/own-your-data-part-3-calendar-contacts-owncloud/ Tonight assignment
Android, Ethics, Proprietary software, Smartphones, Software Libero
Like a drug
I naïvely thought that I wasn’t so reliant on the “we have shun our don’t be evil motto” organization (hint G00gle). How fool I was. I didn’t even have the phone number of my wife saved into my own CardDav address book. She phoned me to ask about my sprained ankle and my phone didn’t…
Android, Ethics, Proprietary software, Smartphones, Software Libero
Not only WhatsApp is proprietary software but it doesn’t even like to run on a pure Android release which I have to remind you is Free Software. Sadly its freedom is not persistent so it can be turned and it is too often turned into proprietary. Telegram happily runs on many terminals at the same…
Ethics, Proprietary software
Another reason
Cisco Removed Its Seventh Backdoor Account This Year, and That’s a Good Thing Here’s one of the several reason why you cannot rely on proprietary software: you can’t never be sure your systems don’t have a backdoor. Note: the same holds for its main competitor Juniper.