This is Matthias Kirschner's private blog. In my day job, I am the president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). I have been involved in Free Software since the late 90ies , so many of the posts here are about Free Software (also called Open Source Software) . Recently, in my spare time, I have written the…
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For this year's "I love Free Software Day" I would like to thank the maintainers of Free Software documentation, and here especially the maintainers of the ArchWiki. Maintainers in general, and maintainers of documentation most of the time get way too little recognition for their contributions to...
At the end of last week, the White House published a draft for a Source Code Policy (Update: the draft is not online anymore, link changed to final version). The policy requires every public agency to publish their custom-build software as Free Software for other public agencies as well as the ge...