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Wow, that's quite a bit of change. So, here's the deal with the SGE: Emilio (the main developer of Stellar) left, and I started trying to make my own "universal level editor". I've abandoned that, however, so the SGE is now just going to be a nice game engine, kind of like what Love2D is...

Yes. I agree that the off-topic discussion is being dragged out, so I'll just point you to the GNU Project philosophy directory and my about page: https://gnu.org/philosophy/ http://onpon4.comule.com/about If you want to ask me further questions in a private conversation, please use e-mail...

You have to do it manually. Many PNDs don't include license information, since this is optional, and repo.openpandora.org doesn't have any filtering tools. Unless it's been fixed in my absence, you can't even view the license from PNDManager, requiring you to go to the website directly and...

My position is that development of proprietary software is unethical, and the fact that people are using it is a social problem. I reject the Pandora for this reason (even if it weren't for the problem of the proprietary wireless firmware and 3-D driver, it's impossibly difficult to install only...

WizardStan said what I was going to say better than I was going to. Also, this video on the topic is pretty good, though it has a lot of "um"s and "uh"s: http://media.libreplanet.org/u/libby/m/mako/ (I'm particularly thinking of the part that starts at 23:25.)

Er... you know, I'm one of those free software "zealots", and you pretty much took exactly the opposite meaning I intended. I was saying that the actual organization and development of FLOSS and proprietary software is basically the same. (I didn't say anything about philosophical...

I don't think that's true as a general rule in free/libre/open-source software communities any more than in communities of proprietary software users. First of all, most FOSS projects are led by a Benevolent Dictator or at least an oligarchy, not a democracy; those that try to be a democracy...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Church+of+Emacs This shouldn't be too much to ask considering that I opened the next paragraph with "On a more serious note". If it really was a response to the second paragraph, that makes no sense at all. The second paragraph was a congratulation for the GL to GL ES...

Where I come from, that's what we call a "joke". It's something you say which is supposed to be funny. I thought I made that clear by mentioning the "Church of Emacs". To quote RMS: Why not show the results, then? What I see when I search my nick with Startpage are my old YouTube channel, the...

Like I said before, I haven't even argued for free software here. Any claims that I am behaving like this religious friend mentioned are baseless. Moxie, you cut out half of a paragraph[0] and replaced it with "loads of text". Half of a paragraph! Only a couple of sentences! What's more, the...

I'm not sure what you're talking about, there was nothing incorrect in this sentence. This is a lot of text, but all you're really saying is: "the free software movement looks to me like annoying religious people", yet you don't really explain how your supposed observations of the free software...

I reject the label "fanatic" and I think it's unfortunate that some people think advocating freedom is "fanaticism". I also reject "preaching" as a label for talking about freedom (unless you do a Church of Emacs routine or some such thing, but that's a joke). But I want to just talk about the...

"lin-uks" is how I chose to render /ˈlɪnəks/. That's how I'm reading "Li-nuks", too. Linus Torvalds said in an interview at one point that he doesn't care how people say "Linus", but "Linux is always /ˈlɪnəks/".

13 votes now: http://www.datafilehost.com/d/a2669e0e

I think this poll is going to be the most useful, because I didn't ask for favorites, just which ones are bothersome. A better way to ask about this one would have been "names for GNU/Linux you like", with multiple answers allowed and including just "Linux". I guess that would be interesting, so...

To do these polls. This is a fairly sizable open source community I know well, and I'm interested in what people in support of open source think. I want to modify my speech pattern when it comes to talking about GNU/Linux depending on who I'm talking to. I joined it before I was fully in...

10 votes so far. I've made a spreadsheet in LibreOffice Calc extrapolating acceptance of each term and some graphs showing that: http://www.datafilehost.com/d/3076b3d5 The graphs as images:

I find that hard to believe. That sounds like something someone would think of the open source movement. Look at what the two movements advocate: The free software movement advocates freedom, and RMS often talks about how free software creates a free market for selling services. The open source...

"GNU" is associated with free software ideals. Linux isn't. If people know that the system is a GNU system, they are going to listen to the GNU Project and the FSF rather than dismiss them as "just a bunch of hippies".

I don't know what kind of people who don't know about the system would give "negative feedback" for calling GNU/Linux "GNU/Linux". In any case, you have a different goal than I do. I don't want GNU/Linux to be popular, necessarily; I want freedom in computing to be popular. Considering how...