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Alex Efros posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:03:19 +0300 as excerpted: |
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> Hi! |
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> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 03:38:31PM +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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>> As for pulseaudio, I'd guess a lot of gentooers don't use it at all, |
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>> preferring direct alsa, etc. I know I've never used pulse here. |
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> Sure, but skype-4.2 not supported anymore while 4.3 doesn't work without |
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> pulseaudio - so this shit infiltrate into our systems anyway. :( |
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Not a problem here. |
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In keeping with my sig I simply don't do servantware, and that's exactly |
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what skype is or someone could and likely would revert those commits, in |
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the form of distributed patches if upstream didn't cooperate. But since |
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skype considers itself master over users and refuses to give them the |
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right to see and modify the code running on their own systems, there's |
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little that can be done, except to choose not to run code from people who |
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refuse to recognize my rights as a user, which is exactly what I do. |
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Of course you're free to do otherwise, to trade freedom for convenience |
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if you like, and it seems most people prefer short term convenience to |
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long term freedom, so what can I say or do? What I CAN do as it's within |
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my power, and HAVE done, is draw a line concerning what runs on my own |
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system. =:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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