Trisquel team keep up the good work
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I keep reading about how free software *should* protect people from anything from the big bad wolf to the NSA. Probably is just a lack of education. In the race to get the latest, the biggest and the coolest diploma people with 6 to 20 years of schooling remain in ignorance on most issues they debate.
Free software is about freedom. Freedom in itself does not protect anything but freedom.
It is *I* who decides if I use my car to give some stranger a lift, if I use my car to do run away from a crime scene, if I use my car to get the groceries for an asylum or if I use my car to run over my disgusting neighbor. The GPL car should not stop if ITSELF evaluates my action as a crime because it might be wrong. The GPL car is not supposed to make me invisible to the police chopper overhead. Having a GPL car does not imply having a gun pointed to the passenger seat just in case I might be mugged. And if I care to install such a device, the GPL gun should not tell me who might be the one /deserving/ to be wounded.
Trisquel is a distribution that puts into practice the FSF philosophy. It's sad to see the mullahs of the information techology pushing against this philosophy when one has so much freedom to install a few thousand distributions. The irony is that the diversity is also generated by the same philosophy they dislike.
Bravo aka faith in humanity restored post!
Spoiler: Even killer-drones include GPLed stuff, be it of legacy v2. I wanted to touch gently the parent issue - as RMS puts this - software freedom itself ain't enough for the ruling class' evil deeds setback. Ordinary humans have to engage further in everyday's society, shall we advance to an information one.
What do you personally - bmw2qs - think of recent CC 4.0 license set?!
I had no idea there is a CC 4.0. 3.0 fit me well. That is not a good reason. Back in the days when GPL v3 was fresh it was unclear why to upgrade. Years later I found out what TiVo was. I am still against the phrasing GPL vX and any later version.
While it is true that "free software" is about the 4 essential freedoms over the software, RMS himself has said that this is not just a technical matter. It is a social matter, free software should bring us a free society.
And in a free society you can't have freedom unless you are free from surveillance, free from social and political pressures, free to speak about any issue and read about any issue.
So, yes, while Trisquel should not be about privacy and security, according to RMS it should have that aspect in its goal.
That is why I sometimes disagree with some people here, because I don't care about "free software rules". I care about "free software bringing us a free society and a chance of a better community".
What are the major changes from CC 3.0 to CC 4.0?
I am a translator!
While the GNU GPL does not tell anything about privacy and protection from unauthorized supervision, it doesn't mean everything is done by releasing software under the GNU GPL. There are many more things wrong in the world besides non-free software. The fact that special services can track all of our communications and basically control our computing through some backdoors is bad. On a different level than having a piece of software under a non-free license, but it is still an important issue, just a different one.
I don't say any distribution of GNU/Linux should include the best measures for privacy and anonimous internet access (as far this one is even possible). A GNU/Linux distribution is free to invent any type of nieche for itself, a distro for sys admins, a distro for music makers, one for people with very old hardware, etc.
Things like Tor and PGP, OTR Messaging are not the way one should fight the privacy problems nowadays. "There ought to be a law...". Citizens should not be under suspission in the first place. But as long as they all are, using special methods for obscuring ones messages and identity on the Internet is a legit way of protesting against the crazyness.
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