Paolo Redaelli personal blog

Category: Software Libero

On being pro GPL

That’s am interesting point of view on the never really settled arguments between copyleft and non copyleft software licences. http://m.slashdot.org/story/297041 He says, “I am not only pro-copyleft, I am also pro-permissive licensing. The difference between these is tactics: the first tactic is towards guaranteeing user freedom, the second tactic is toward pushing adoption. I am…

Stonex One

7 maggio 2017, aggiornamento: la cosa dovrebbe essere oramai nota ai più, ma codesta azienda ha mostrato di essere – e cerco di essere educato e non querelabile – molto fumo e poco arrosto. Questo secondo la mia modesta opionione. Ma pare essere condivisa da molti altri Non è mia abitudine sponsorizzare telefoni ma per…

It’s actually over

Google’s corporate motto is “Don’t be evil“. For a convenient definition of “evil” it seems when you read news such as this: The default behavior of hotword, a new, black-box module in Chrome (and its free/open cousin, Chromium) causes it to silently switch on your computer’s microphone and send whatever it hears to Google. Google…

No source, no trust

Microsoft brings Office to Android smartphones for free No, thanks, I rather prefer not to use software that I cannot trust. You may offer it for zero money but as there’s no sources to inspect I cannot trust it. No source, no trust. It’s that simple. Sorgente: Microsoft brings Office to Android smartphones for free

Big G or Big Brother?

 Google Criticized For ‘Opaque’ Audio-Listening Binary In Debian Chromium (source Slashdot): Debian, mother of Ubuntu, a major player in the software Libre world always required to have access to the sources of the programs they distribute1, especially in web-browsers. I’m not surprised to read this. I do not use proprietary browser for this very reason,…