I've been pondering what to write in my blog now that I no longer lead Adélie Linux. There isn't a great amount of things to write about around my day job making libre networking software, and there's even less to write about my "spare time" projects. (Mostly because that spare time is spent playing with … Continue reading Libre software and moral absolutism
Sociology
Reckless Software Development Must End
On the 6th of November, 2019, I made a comment on Twitter: People will continue to be maimed and killed by reckless development practices until such a time that regulators wake up and realise the entire IT industry is something that needs to be regulated to an inch of their lives.— 🌈 A. Wilcox 🌈 … Continue reading Reckless Software Development Must End
Libre software funding and market abuse
I've just read a troubling article from the developer of Aether. What troubles me is not so much the differences we have, which likely stems from being in vastly different segments of libre software (he's doing social media, and I'm in low-level systems). What troubles me is that he claims that it is an economic … Continue reading Libre software funding and market abuse
Keeping libre software accessible to all
Recently, a number of high-profile libre software projects have been either considering, or adopting, proprietary chat systems to be their primary method of communication with their communities. This should cause alarm to everyone who is interested in the libre software movement. Projects using Discord as an official method of communication include distributions like Fedora, Gentoo, … Continue reading Keeping libre software accessible to all
