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• Avadiax at 2016-06-04T10:05:41Z via AndStatus To: Public

  Stop using short PGP key ID ... collisions are being detected in the wild. http://gwolf.org/node/4070
  

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• Glyn Moody at 2016-06-03T16:10:19Z via AndStatus To: Public

  Google’s fair use victory is good for #opensource - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/06/googles-fair-use-victory-is-good-for-open-source/ "
  No, Google's win won't gut the GPL."
  

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• We Distribute at 2016-06-03T16:09:36Z via AndStatus To: Public

  What's going on with OwnCloud?

  The recent announcement of the OwnCloud Foundation followed by the announcement of fork of OwnCloud is bound to raise more than a few eyebrows. What happened? How did things get to this point?
  
  Catching the Next Cloud
  Earlier today, Frank Karlitschek, co-founder of #OwnCloud, made an announcement about the formation of a new project. Five weeks prior, he had left the company that he had helped start, and some of the core development team have followed him to their new project, NextCloud.
  
  
  
  
  Frank describes a vision for what he wants out of this new project and its respective community: a project that does development out in the open, without any contributor agreements or dual-licensing schemes, with a new trademark held by an independent foundation. A better company culture where shares are equally held by employees, with the hand of development decisions guided by the community-at-large rather than a disconnected small team.
  
  To paraphrase Frank, the best parts of OwnCloud are to be extended to fully support what the community has been asking for: better apps, with features that previously only existed for enterprise customers. In his own words:
  
  

  We will release a drop in replacement for ownCloud in a few weeks so that users and customers can easily upgrade to Nextcloud to benefit from the new bugfix and security improvements and features. Nextcloud GmbH will provide free support for all current ownCloud customers to simplify a transition.

  
  
  The OwnCloud Foundation
  
  

  "One of Frank’s criticisms concerned the need to strengthen the Community. In this regard, we have been working on the creation of the ownCloud Foundation, the formation of which we announced earlier this week."

  
  
  Recently, the OwnCloud project announced that it was setting up a foundation. While this is a welcome event for any Free Software project, it immediately raised eyebrows. Some of the main criticisms were focused on the nature of the board itself (only 2 seats are elected by the community - the other four are coporate), whereas others have pointed out that only OwnCloud Inc itself appears to have any sponsorship in the foundation.
  
  Meanwhile, a handful of developers of the OwnCloud platform announce that they are leaving their projects. Their announcements can be found on Planet KDE. The general theme appears to be that OwnCloud is putting its corporate needs above its community needs.
  
  The OwnCloud Foundation's had this to say on the matter:
  

  Today’s announcement by our former colleague Frank Karlitschek, that he intends to launch a competitive product to ownCloud into the market using recently poached developers, has both surprised us and – admittedly – disappointed us. In the past, Frank has made a wealth of contributions to the development of the ownCloud Community Edition. With today’s announcement, he is no longer related to the ownCloud project and has started a competing community.

  
  
  This ends on a particularly strange note, as OwnCloud finally concludes that it has to close its doors after their main lenders cancelled their credit. 8 employee contracts were terminated in the process, and the company will be forced to close its doors. Paradoxically "The ownCloud GmbH is not directly affected by this and the growth of the ownCloud Foundation will remain a key priority."
  
  #NextCloud

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  This ends on a particularly strange note, as OwnCloud finally concludes that it has to close its doors after their main lenders cancelled their credit. 8 employee contracts were terminated in the process, and the company will be forced to close its doors. Paradoxically "The ownCloud GmbH is not directly affected by this and the growth of the ownCloud Foundation will remain a key priority."
  

  
  I'm confused. What closed its doors? I would've thought the business, but the next sentence says the GmbH is not affected. Anyone know?
  

  Mike Linksvayer at 2016-06-03T16:01:35Z

  

  I think I've read somewhere, that the US branch "Inc." has to close down, while the "GmbH" which is the German branch can continue. But I don't have a link to prove.

  Tobias Diekershoff at 2016-06-03T16:19:55Z

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  >> Mike Linksvayer:

  “This ends on a particularly strange note, as OwnCloud finally concludes that it has to close its doors after their main lenders cancelled their credit. 8 employee contracts were terminated in the process, and the company will be forced to close its doors. Paradoxically "The ownCloud GmbH is not directly affected by this and the growth of the ownCloud Foundation will remain a key priority."
  
  
  I'm confused. What closed its doors? I would've thought the business, but the next sentence says the GmbH is not affected. Anyone know?”

  The developers themselves and the promise of their future intellectual properties was the asset or other collateral used to secure the debt?

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• The State of Mobile in XMPP 2016

  Jorge at 2016-06-03T16:06:17Z via AndStatus To: Public

  XMPP is not suited for mobile devices. That’s a myth that has been around for ages. It is mostly spread by people who want to sell you their own proprietary instant messaging solution. But it also gained some popularity through a blog post entitled The (Sad) State of Mobile XMPP in 2014 by Georg Lukas. While Georg wasn’t wrong with his status report per se, it is important to understand that he describes a temporary problem. There was a brief period of time where XMPP actually had some catching up to do. XMPP was fine before, when we had different requirements—In fact I was using an XMPP client on my Nokia E71 back in 2008 (That’s more than two years before WhatsApp was even invented)—and it’s fine now in 2016…

  
  

  https://gultsch.de/xmpp_2016.html

  
  

  via: https://primatemind.info/notice/37454

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  >> Morgan McMillian:

  “[...] However even then it almost always ends up being SMS. [...]”

  Then SMS it is. As long as they can 'find' you on WhatsApp or $CURRENTSILO, they won't touch anything else. Why would they? ;)

  JanKusanagi at 2016-06-04T00:07:22Z

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  Are there stable public servers again?
  

  [email protected] at 2016-06-04T22:33:22Z

  

  >> [email protected]:

  “Are there stable public servers again?”

  In the +10 years I've been using jabber/XMPP, there have been, so... yes?

  JanKusanagi at 2016-06-04T23:05:42Z

  

  List of public servers if your looking for one. https://xmpp.net/directory.php

  Morgan McMillian at 2016-06-05T03:12:27Z

• TeamViewer denies hack after PCs hijacked, PayPal accounts drained

  coyote at 2016-06-02T19:40:30Z via AndStatus To: Public

  In the past 24 hours, we've seen a spike in complaints from people who say their PCs, Macs and servers were taken over via the widely used remote-control tool on their machines. Even users with strong passwords and two-factor authentication enabled on their TeamViewer accounts say they were hit.

  
  

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/01/teamviewer_mass_breach_report/ 

  
  

  https://www.meneame.net/story/teamview-niega-haya-sido-hackeada-montones-pcs-secuestrados-eng 

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  Proprietary cra... em... software at its best =)

  JanKusanagi at 2016-06-02T12:29:42Z

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  No he entendido cual fue la brecha de seguridad en teamviewer?

  Aqa-Ib at 2016-06-05T22:50:05Z

• Openwashing

  Elena ``of Valhalla'' at 2016-06-02T19:31:59Z via AndStatus To: Public

  Nuand abusing the term "Open Source" for non-free Software

  Back in late April, the well-known high-quality SDR hardware company
  Nuand published a blog post about an Open Source Release of a VHDL ADS-B
  receiver.
  
  I was quite happy at that time about this, and bookmarked it for further investigation at some later point.
  
  Today I actually looked at the source code, and more by coincidence noticed that the LICENSE file contains a license that is anything but Open Source: The license is a "free for evaluation only" license, and it is only valid if you run the code on an actual Nuand board.

  I don't know about this specific case, but this is not the first time that somebody claimed that something was Open Source when it wasn't.
  
  From one point of view it isn't a completely bad thing: it means that being Open Source is perceived as having a marketing value, and that at least some markets are voting for it with their wallets, which is a good thing.
  
  Other than that, it's a misleading practice, especially when done with malice. Unluckily IIRC "Open Source" in itself couldn't be trademarked (and there goes one of the supposed advantages over using the term "Free Software"), so there are probably no ways to stop it via legal means, and it's very important that the communities involved take care to spread the word to prevent this tactic from being successful.

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• Aaron Gibson at 2016-06-02T19:30:32Z via AndStatus To: Public

  h/t [email protected]
  OwnCloud forked to create Nextcloud

  The future of your own cloud is here.

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  Here is the blog post from the ex-CIO himself: http://karlitschek.de/2016/06/nextcloud/

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  wow! big news. Definitely something I'll keep an eye on.

  Freemor at 2016-06-02T11:44:52Z

  

  I guess https://owncloud.com/owncloud-announces-formation-owncloud-foundation/ (2 days ago, trade association) was an attempt to blunt migration to the soon-to-be-announced nextcloud?
  
  

  Mike Linksvayer at 2016-06-02T17:22:37Z

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  >> Mike Linksvayer:

  “I guess https://owncloud.com/owncloud-announces-formation-owncloud-foundation/ (2 days ago, trade association) was an attempt to blunt migration to the soon-to-be-announced nextcloud?”

  I find it interesting that there are financial consequences to the move.

  Stephen Michael Kellat at 2016-06-02T23:17:00Z

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• Speaking of (the not so dead, not so irrelevant) Federation

  Freemor at 2016-05-31T08:52:52Z via AndStatus To: Public

  Join us for the first Decentralized Web Summit — June 8-9, in SF

  
  

  
  

  The first Decentralized Web Summit is a call for dreamers and builders who believe we can lock the Web open for good. This goal of the Summit (June 8) and Meetup featuring lightning talks and workshops (June 9) is to spark collaboration and take concrete steps to create a better Web.

  
  

  Full info @

  
  

  https://blog.archive.org/2016/05/19/join-us-for-the-first-decentralized-web-summit-june-8-9-in-sf/

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  Cool!

  JanKusanagi at 2016-05-21T12:52:16Z

  

  Yes, I'm very excited. Good speakers and they plan to live stream it.

  
  

  It also looks like they are still open to other joining in with talks/workshops/lightning talks.

  Freemor at 2016-05-21T12:54:10Z

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  SF is a little bit far away ...

  heluecht at 2016-05-24T20:08:55Z

• Debian versus systemd...AGAIN?

  Stephen Michael Kellat at 2016-05-31T08:48:42Z via AndStatus To: Public

  This bug report amuses me: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825394

  
  

  GNOME is not the way, the truth, and the life. With as connected as GNOME and systemd are with each other...we cannot escape that anymore, it seems.

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• Shakthi Kannan at 2016-05-20T12:35:11Z via AndStatus To: Public

  Save Firefox! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/save-firefox #EFF

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• Glyn Moody at 2016-05-19T17:01:54Z via AndStatus To: Public

  Federal Judge Says Internet Archive's Wayback Machine A Perfectly Legitimate Source Of Evidence - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160518/08175934474/federal-judge-says-internet-archives-wayback-... that's good
  

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• Community meeting this Friday, 2016/05/20 @ 20:00 UTC

  Pump.io Community at 2016-05-19T11:01:20Z via AndStatus To: Public

  Hello, dear pumpers!

   
  Everyone is invited to join the next Pump.io community meeting this Friday, 2016/05/20 at 20:00 UTC.
   
  Agenda is here: https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/wiki/Meeting-2016-05-20 (you can add topics too)

  
  The meeting will take place on IRC: chat.freenode.net server, #pump.io channel. It can also be followed via Jabber/XMPP in the [email protected] MUC room, and via web access.
   
  As usual, the meeting will be logged and we will REDACT the nicks of the people who ask for it; log/outcomes will be posted here and in the meeting wiki page.
   
  Have a look at our Community wiki page for further info.
   
  We hope you can join us!

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  \o/

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• Stephen Sekula at 2016-05-14T09:54:09Z via AndStatus To: Public

  From Twitter:

  RT @iraflatow: Astronaut becomes first person to wear Star Trek uniform in space.

  Live long and.. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/astronaut-becomes-first-person-wear-5555337 https://twitter.com/iraflatow/status/730912724679593984/photo/1"

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• DebConf16 Call for Proposals deadline extended to 15 May 2016

  Debian Project at 2016-05-11T17:20:12Z via AndStatus To: Public

  The DebConf16 Call for Proposals deadline has been extended to 15 May 2016.

  
  

  Hurry up! https://debconf16.debconf.org/cfp/

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• DebConf16 Call for Proposals deadline extended to 15 May 2016

  Debian Project at 2016-05-11T17:20:10Z via AndStatus To: Public

  The DebConf16 Call for Proposals deadline has been extended to 15 May 2016.

  
  

  Hurry up! https://debconf16.debconf.org/cfp/

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• Sumana Harihareswara at 2016-04-26T20:41:03Z via AndStatus To: Public

  RT @bwinton

  Exciting times for Thunderbird! Also, would anyone like a challenging contract position figuring out the future?
  
  https://careers.mozilla.org/position/ohUW2fwT
  

  
  

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• My Application to Debian

  at 2016-04-19T03:08:09Z via AndStatus To: Public

  

  I abandoned my previous DD application back in 2003 due to lack of time, and after 13 years, it's clear to me that I will never have time unless I put time aside for it.

  
  

  Plus the new-ish non-uploading DD is *exactly* the right type of affiliation (although someday I may want to maintain packages, I don't know when that will be) for me.

  
  

  So, if you're a DD and would like to advocate for my application as a non-uploading DD, please visit this URL with your Debian credentials active and click the link "advocate for DD, non-upl":

  
  

  https://nm.debian.org/public/person/bkuhn

  
  

  Thanks!
  

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  Done.

  Ben Pfaff at 2016-04-18T23:30:34Z

  

  It seems you have your required two advocacies for non-uploading DD.

  Now if you could just get started on those open IRS advisory committee calls I posted about so I can write up an advocacy or two there...

  Stephen Michael Kellat at 2016-04-18T23:42:36Z

  

  Done.
  I think that I signed your key.
  Just in case, I'll send again your public key (with answer to questions in the paper slip you gave me) signed by me.
  

  Yutaka Niibe at 2016-04-21T00:42:54Z

• Sumana Harihareswara at 2016-04-10T10:43:00Z via AndStatus To: Public

  RT @sunlightlabs

  The federal gov't has proposed an open source software policy! Read the draft here + leave your feedback by Monday: https://sourcecode.cio.gov/

  
  

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• New article by RMS, "When free software depends on non-free"

  Free Software Foundation at 2016-04-09T11:26:32Z via AndStatus To: Public

  Learn to recognize and avoid free software traps.

  Richard Stallman's latest article, When Free Software Depends On Non-Free discusses different kinds of free software "traps" -- when a free program's use depends unavoidably on a nonfree program -- including the subtle but nefarious problem in which upgrading a free program requires using a nonfree programs. Stallman's various examples of different kinds of traps will help you be able to recognize them, and as he concludes in the article, "all it takes to avoid the trap is to recognize it."

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• Laura Arjona at 2016-04-09T10:33:35Z via AndStatus To: Public

  It's not only about integration with the system. I deeply appreciate the external audit (license, build from source, reproducibility) that a software included in Debian implies.

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