Open Source

The Cathedral and the Bizarre

Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles. Douglas Rushkoff

Do we need to rethink what free software is?

Matthew Garrett2019106 points136 comments details

Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update

Sean Davis (bluesabre)2019103 points117 comments details

Xubuntu 19.04 “Disco Dingo” is just around the corner. It features numerous updates and an updated snapshot of Xfce 4.14 development.

The Cloud and Open Source

Tim Bray2019103 points32 comments details

This is eventually about the public cloud and Open Source, but — apologies in advance — takes an indirect and long-ish path.

Remove Richard Stallman

medium.com/@selamie201995 points76 commentscited by 36 details

A Reflection on the Departure of RMS

Thomas Bushnell201983 points43 commentscited by 15 details