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Looks like you responded before I edited! Looks like I crashed the USB host or something, because on the next reboot, it worked. Man, I got this dongle for the sake of freedom, but it's so much better even on shallow practical grounds than the Pandora's built-in wireless! I'm actually getting...

I'm having trouble getting a USB wireless dongle (this one) to work with Pandian. Not sure about SuperZaxxon as I haven't tried that, but I'm only interested in Pandian at the moment. I'm guessing that the Pandora's kernel is stripped down to only the parts necessary for the Pandora's...

Uh, no. In the Trisquel community, proprietary software is considered off-topic and inappropriate, not "prohibited" speech. The absolute worst I would expect (and I don't even remember ever seeing this, though it could just be flawed memory on my part) is the topic being moved to the Troll Hole...

I can tell you that the Trisquel forum doesn't have any sort of censorship policy in place for things like this. The community guidelines include not promoting proprietary software, but I have never seen anyone's posts get deleted or even moved to the Troll Hole (a forum for posts that don't...

Grench, I haven't redistributed any of your posts, so I guess I'm guilty of censoring you. Also, you haven't redistributed any of my posts, so you're guilty of censoring me. Amazing how easy censorship is these days, eh?

What you say is generally true, but everyone does indirectly benefit from the possibility of anyone looking at the source code, finding a malicious feature, and either raising an uproar about it or forking the program. It is very rare for a developer to even attempt to put a malicious feature in...

Useful to note: if you're willing to forgo animations and sounds and stuff like that, you can convert the presentation to PDF, and it'll be much more portable that way.

Yes, using proprietary software has a negative effect on society, but it's indirect. Most free/libre software activists don't consider it to be unethical for individuals to use proprietary. RMS even says so explicitly in his talks about libre software (like this one), when he says that...

RMS has commented that his previous laptop had a screen that was a bit small for his liking, so I doubt he would be personally interested in something like the Pyra. Yep, he briefly used an XO laptop. He stopped when it started supporting Windows...

That's neat. @everyone: Guys, this discussion about restaurants and comparing software to food is completely pointless. The free/libre software movement is not analogous to moral vegetarianism or veganism. All the analogy is doing is causing oversimplifications of the issues at hand...

I didn't make a request. I asked a question. (And that question was answered: the Pyra will be worse than the Pandora, because to run it with libre software you will have to ditch sound quality.) Incidentally, I have not thought throughout this entire conversation that the Pyra could achieve...

That's why many of us have taken to saying "libre" instead. Whenever someone asks what "libre" is, I simply explain that "libre" means "having liberty" before explaining more thoroughly, and most people seem to understand quite easily. The FSF can't change its name, though, so "free software"...

It's really not as nice as you think. Moral vegetarians and vegans don't eat meat because they think it's unethical to eat meat. No one in the libre software movement, short of a small number of newcomers, is under the impression that using proprietary software is unethical. It's developing...

I very much doubt that statement would disqualify a piece of hardware from the RYF certification. Think Penguin's page on the wireless devices with RYF certification it sells clearly state that the device works with several non-libre GNU/Linux systems, by name, and also mentions that it will...

Hm, I'll have to investigate this at some point. Thanks. As I say on my website, I oppose copyright and non-libre culture, but think it would be senseless (and even destructive) to refuse to view, read, or otherwise consume non-libre works, with the exception of software (software is an...

I wouldn't call a requirement for an endorsement a "ban", but I digress. It's not convenient access to proprietary software that prevents a vendor from getting RYF certification, but a recommendation of that proprietary software in either the advertising for the device or the software meant to...

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Yes. That's why Mozilla's add-ons database is a problem. ScummVM doesn't need the binaries, just the data files. As for the scripts, that's a good point, but it depends on what kinds of things are in those scripts. For example, I've looked at Ren'Py's scripts, and those aren't a problem. Do you...

That would be fine as long as there is nothing that could be construed as suggesting evilrepo.openpandora.org or assisting usage of it from the main system's distribution channels or website. So basically, no mention of it on these places. It's all explained here...

So all the Pandora additions are in one repository. Can I suggest doing as upstream does and splitting libre and proprietary software into separate repositories? (Even better if you can do so in such a way that vrms is compatible with it, or modify vrms to recognize the Pandian non-free repo if...