@theguy: It might be irrelevant to you, but for a free software activist, it detects nonfree, nontrivial JavaScript in pages you visit, and blocks it. That way you aren't running non-free programs through your browser.
@theguy: It might be irrelevant to you, but for a free software activist, it detects nonfree, nontrivial JavaScript in pages you visit, and blocks it. That way you aren't running non-free programs through your browser.
What is wrong with running non-free programs through your browser?
it goes against everything a free software activist stands for...
@cyraxible: I think RMS one ups me by fetching web pages from sites by sending mail to a program that fetches them, much like wget, and then it mails them back to him. Anyway, it shouldn't be particularly hard to do, just follow the guide in the original post.
@Anwar: The same reason we don't run any proprietary software, because it's an injustice and free software respects the user's freedom.
So if someone puts a lot of work into a piece of software and doesn't want to give it away to be used freely, that's a bad thing? Their work deserves no merit? I'm not sure I get the mentality here. How about games? They are not free pieces of software.
@CaLe: Yes, it's a bad thing and their work deserves no merit. I won't go in-detail because I'm sure it is better explained elsewhere.
I don't play proprietary games, in fact I look at them the same way @Jeff was saying about on-disc DLC. If I played them, I would be a hypocrite and the game developers would win.
@predator: I was sympathetic to your viewpoint until you outright stated that anyone who charges anything for software is doing a bad thing and they deserve no merit. That's an extremely close-minded point of view, and it doesn't help that you aren't even attempting to explain why you think this way.
@CaLe: Yes, it's a bad thing and their work deserves no merit. I won't go in-detail because I'm sure it is better explained elsewhere.
I don't play proprietary games, in fact I look at them the same way @Jeff was saying about on-disc DLC. If I played them, I would be a hypocrite and the game developers would win.
Words.. I have none. So yeah, good luck with that.
H.264 is a patent-encumbered format and shouldn't be supported. It doesn't matter which is more popular or technically superior.
Really? It doesn´t matter at all? To be honest I know very little about the benefits of opensource software, but this specifically seems a little bit crazy. Giant Bomb is a business after all, and they need to at least consider the technologies and formats that are most widespread. Not to mention which ones are the best technically.
And expecting them to specifically support your incredibly obscure linux exclusive browser seems like expecting a little to much.
@Anwar: I support the PlayOgg!campaign. Most of my music is in .ogg, some in .flac. Some is also in .mp3 because I couldn't find it in .flac. And yes, the problem is that it isn't free software.
@theguy: It might be irrelevant to you, but for a free software activist, it detects nonfree, nontrivial JavaScript in pages you visit, and blocks it. That way you aren't running non-free programs through your browser.
You're asking a commercial site to bend to your minority will as you express yourself as a FLOSS slacktivist. I'm all for FLOSS but this is ridiculous.
@Maajin: I don't understand what you mean, a computer is hardware. For all intents and purposes, that is free.
@MeatBoy: Mozilla Firefox is not an incredibly obscure GNU/Linux exclusive browser. What I am asking GB to do is to release their Javascript code under a free licence, which is easy to do by following the guide in the original post.
@predator: I am not exactly sure about the intricacies of your stance on the usage of free software. But I wonder how far this mentality extends for you. Is it limited only to software and if so why only software? Why not everything?
Books: words/language is free so the author deserves nothing for just arranging them in a certain order.
Packaged food/restaurant food: deserves nothing because you could just prepare it all yourself.
Furniture: wood grows naturally but those damned huge corporations are making money from turning this free growing wood into a nice desk.
So I'll ask again, how far do you take this stance and if it stops with software, what is the reason? It would be logically inconsistent of you to restrict yourself to only software. What I'm saying is, just by sitting in the chair you are on right now, destroys any stance you have. At least from my perspective.
so you want them to degrade the preform ace of the website by not minifying (which is done is speed up page loads not to obfuscate code) their js (the js lib they use mootools is open) so you can have a clear conshince when visting a site about software you think is terrible, how does this make sense to you? also you want them to switch to a different video codec which would mean re-ecoding everything, amd then pay $3 per user to use status.net ;>.>
I know you are trying to improve the world but trying to change small sites like this really isn't something that is going to happen when the time costs etc will be so great, just because they have CBSi behind them now doesn't mean they can though money around on stuff like this
@CaLe: You are thinking of price when it isn't a question about price whatsoever. Think of “free speech”, not “free beer”. Food and furniture are as free as they can be. As for books, all textbooks and reference works should be free as in freedom.
@CaLe: Yes, it's a bad thing and their work deserves no merit. I won't go in-detail because I'm sure it is better explained elsewhere.
I don't play proprietary games, in fact I look at them the same way @Jeff was saying about on-disc DLC. If I played them, I would be a hypocrite and the game developers would win.
Wow, well your missing out on all the fun then:)
You´re welcome to prove me wrong on that though. If you have any tips on good open source games, I´d love to check them out.
@CaLe: You are thinking of price when it isn't a question about price whatsoever. Think of “free speech”, not “free beer”. Food and furniture are as free as they can be. As for books, all textbooks and reference works should be free as in freedom.
So basically, ideas, or anything produced by the human mind shouldn't have a price? Is this more accurate?
Edit: noticed you only say textbooks/reference works. Meaning it's OK to charge for something that is for entertainment? But not games.. because they are software? I guess I'm not getting the fundamentals of this mentality.
Predator, I'm all for Giant Bomb working across multiple browsers but you're asking for the site to support very obscure formats and software. In April 2012 it was only 0.8% of people online who weren't using IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Opera, (source) and within that 0.8% it's going to be an even smaller number of people who are using LibreJS. Supporting that browser would mean taking large amounts of time and resources that could be spent creating and improving features for the 99.2%+ to support these very specific technologies. The matter of the fact is that it does matter what technologies people are using and it does matter what technologies are most popular. I don't think revamping the site in the way you're talking about would be fair to Giant Bomb or to any of it's users apart from the < 0.8% using the software you're talking about.
@MeatBoy: Well, I'm not playing much right now except maybe nethack-el and OpenTTD, because ATI and Nvidia cards require non-free firmware for 2D and 3D acceleration. If I get an Intel graphics chipset, I'll try out Xonotic and Ryzom. There's a list of games here.
@Gamer_152: I'm not asking for GB to be compatible with a browser, Abrowser is just an unbranded Firefox. LibreJS is obscure though.
@MeatBoy: Well, I'm not playing much right now except maybe nethack-el and OpenTTD, because ATI and Nvidia cards require non-free firmware for 2D and 3D acceleration. If I get an Intel graphics chipset, I'll try out Xonotic and Ryzom. There's a list of games here.
Why are you interested in Giant Bomb when it focuses on games that you will never play?
@CaLe: Yes, it's a bad thing and their work deserves no merit. I won't go in-detail because I'm sure it is better explained elsewhere.
I don't play proprietary games, in fact I look at them the same way @Jeff was saying about on-disc DLC. If I played them, I would be a hypocrite and the game developers would win.
So what games do you play? I'm not sure why you'd even visit a site like GiantBomb, when 99.9% of the games they cover cost money. In fact, I'm not sure how you can get anywhere in live believing in this.
If furniture can't be free, why is it different for software? People spend their lives training and then creating this software for you to enjoy, so how is that different? Expecting everything to be free is frankly just crazy.
@Anwar: @CaLe: There is nothing wrong with charging for textbooks and reference works. Again, it is not about price. Here is an definition of free cultural works.
@predator: I was sympathetic to your viewpoint until you outright stated that anyone who charges anything for software is doing a bad thing and they deserve no merit. That's an extremely close-minded point of view, and it doesn't help that you aren't even attempting to explain why you think this way.
@WinterSnowblind: @ck1nd: Again, freedom, not price.
@Anwar: Because I am lazy.
EDIT: Actually, now that I think about it, also because people need to understand what I mean in the first place, and to do that you need to read up on it. It saves a lot of time explaining concepts.
@Gamer_152: I'm not asking for GB to be compatible with a browser, Abrowser is just an unbranded Firefox. LibreJS is obscure though.
Okay, but I think the point still stands. You're asking for changes which are going to mean nothing for at least 99% of Giant Bomb users for reasons which the majority of users probably don't even agree with, and will result in time and resources being diverted from the development of features that will affect everyone.
Why the fuck are you even on GB? This site is all about video games, software that explicitly doesn't allow you to modify it or redistribute it to others.....or whatever your confusing definition of free software is.
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