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Drew DeVault
Hello! I’m a software engineer and I write here about free and open source software, politics, ethics, and philosophy. I’m the founder & maintainer of several open source projects, notably SourceHut , the Hare programming language , and Vim Classic , and I started but no longer work on several more that you might have…
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The circus freaks of open source
The masterwork of Terry A. Davis is his eclectic operating system, TempleOS, which he worked on until his tragic death in 2018. In terms of technical excellence, TempleOS rates well in some respects and poorly in others. For example, it earns the achievement, coveted in OS dev circles, of being self-hosted. 1 TempleOS…
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