FSFLA/ blogs/ lxo/ 2007-04-04-flisol.en

FSFLA

Myself

Blonging for Freedom

This is Alexandre Oliva's personal blog, that does not necessarily represent the opinions held by FSFLA, LibrePlanet-BR, AdaCore or any other organization the author may be or may have been associated with, or even by myself, as of now or ever.

See also my home page, and follow me on the distributed P2P networks Twister (@lxoliva) and Secure Scuttlebutt (lxoliva), or on the federated and decentralized ones Diaspora, GNU social or Pump.io.

I'm also lxo in GNU Jami, and I have a Tox ID.

This blog has different entries in Portuguese, Spanish, and perhaps in other languages.

Legal matters

The following catch-all copyright notice and permission apply to all documents and postings in this blog that don't contain a copyright notice of their own, and whose copyright can be reasonably assumed to be held by Alexandre Oliva.

Copyright 2007-2024 Alexandre Oliva

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this entire document worldwide without royalty, provided the copyright notice, the document's official URL, and this permission notice are preserved.

The following licensing terms also apply to all documents and postings in this blog that don't contain a copyright notice of their own, or that contain a notice equivalent to the one above, and whose copyright can be reasonably assumed to be held by Alexandre Oliva.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike) 3.0 Unported. To see a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA.

Anti-piracy policy

Please do not attack ships, especially while visiting this site!

I got back home from Boa Vista, slept for more hours than I can count (not that I can count while asleep, mind you ;-) and found that most the discussion and heat that followed from FSFLA's GNUsletter #21 reference to FLISoL had subsided.

Good. Now we can focus on doing productive work, rather than in explaining what we meant, which was unfortunately quite different from what a number of people perceived. Yeah, we can see now that our statement was quite unfortunate in a number of ways. Sorry about that.

Anyhow... Our plan was to publish some text for FLISoL participants and organizers. It should have been part of that very GNUsletter, but it wasn't ready in time. What we had was either too long and unfocused, or an article gently contributed by FSFLA's former members Fede and Bea, based on an earlier draft by Fernanda, that is much shorter and focused, but is IMNSHO incomplete, and goes a bit too far at celebrating the installation of non-Free Software along with Free Software.

So I wrote ?another article that tries to complement it. Please send your feedback to eventos@fsfla.org.

So blong...