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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,100 posts.
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The Weakness of the .NET OSS Ecosystem
The Profound Weakness of the .NET OSS Ecosystem
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Why I am pro-GPL
Last night at OSCON I attended the lightning talks (here called "Ignite Talks"). Most of them were pretty good (I especially loved Emily Dunham's "First Impressions (the value of the 'noob')" talk), but the last talk of the night was titled "Why I don’t use the GPL" by Shane Curcuru, "VP of Brand Management at the…
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GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub
(This post is an aspirational transcript of the talk I gave to the Data Terra Nemo conference in May 2015. If you’d like to watch the less eloquent version of the same talk that I actually gave, the video should be available soon!)
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Goodbye, Sourceforge
This page used to be a rant about SourceForge's shady practices around circa 2015, along with some basic comparison of other hosting services.
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Open Source .NET libraries that make your life easier
Building applications with .NET, React, and React Native. Fueled by enthusiasm for Linux, currently rocking Omarchy!
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Truecrypt report
A few weeks back I wrote an update on the Truecrypt audit promising that we’d have some concrete results to show you soon. Thanks to some hard work by the NCC Crypto Services group, soon is n…
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Curl, 17 years old today
Today we celebrate the fact that it is exactly 17 years since the first public release of curl. I have always been the lead developer and maintainer of the project. When I released that first version in the spring of 1998, we had only a handful of users and a handful of contributors. curl was … Continue reading curl…
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Elsevier sold me a Creative Commons non-commercial licensed article
[Update 2015-03-13: I have blogged further about this here and provided a recap here. This post has been viewed over 10,000 times. Clearly some people want to sweep this under the carpet and pretend this is just ‘a storm in a teacup’ but it did happen and people do care about this. Thanks to everyone […]
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Contributing to Chromium: An Illustrated Guide
Monica Dinculescu's blog
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Another update on the Truecrypt audit
There’s a story on Hacker News asking what the hell is going on with the Truecrypt audit. I think that’s a fair question, since we have been awfully quiet lately. To everyone who donate…
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Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) and Software License FAQ
A: To answer common questions about the Debian Free Software Guidelines and how we judge whether some piece of software is free.
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The Groovy project is looking for a new home
Pivotal ends sponsorship for Groovy & Grails; these popular JVM projects now seek new funding and partners to continue their vital development.
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From Gongkai to Open Source
About a year and a half ago, I wrote about a $12 “Gongkai” cell phone (pictured above) that I stumbled across in the markets of Shenzhen, China. My most striking impression was that Chinese entrepreneurs had relatively unfettered access to cutting-edge technology, enabling start-ups to innovate while bootstrapping…
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My OpenBSD Story
Michael W Lucas writes books explaining exactly how computers were a mistake. Michael Warren Lucas writes random novels. They both live in the same body. If you’re looking for a specific title, please check the Title Index . To find out when he releases a book, sign up for my topic-specific mailing list .
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The failed economics of our software commons and what to do about it
Progress in the software industry has been crushed under the weight of technical debt accumulated over the last 40 years. The tools, languages, libraries, and platforms we all rely on suffer from massive incidental complexities responsible for billions of dollars in wasted productivity. Anyone who spends any amount of…
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Ignoring pull requests discourages open-source contributions
What's the first thing you do when you find a bug or see a missing feature in an open source project? Check out the project page and submit a patch!
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Open Sourcing a Failed Startup
Technical articles by Kevin Menard. Topics include Ruby, Java, machine learning, and general computing.
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Welcome, New Emacs Developers
Emacs switched the version control system from Bazaar to git yesterday, so now is the time to start hacking away at Emacs. Emacs: The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread If It Wasn’t For The Fact T…