Co-editor of the 'Snipette' online publication. Also codes when he gets a break from #writing. He/him.
#xmpp #python #perl #xubuntu #linux #programming
3. Cut off access to the tool, either by limiting it to a small subset of projects, or by raising the price so much that developers can't continue using the tool without paying through the nose. The result is that any projects purporting to be Free Software are either crippled in development, outdated an unusable, or paying a large monetary price for their "freedom"
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2. Release new tools to help people develop software (open source and otherwise) faster. Let the tools be theoretically possible to run on one's own, keeping Free Software supporters happy, but make it so resource-intensive to run that they won't be able to do without your company products in practice. Get your tool well embedded into the development process, and make it generate spaghetti code only it can understand so that people can't do without it
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"Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" applied to Free(dom-respecting) Software: a thread
1. Promote it, but call it "Open Source" and narrow it down to be about about whether readable source code is better for business or not. Put effort into developing software so good that actual Free Software supporters abandon their more philosophically aligned projects in favour of your shinier one with better marketing
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Just heard about the new Boox Picco...which runs (non-Android) Linux! This is exciting 🤩
(They violate GPL and all so they're not a great company in that sense but this device is one that I'll consider purchasing at some point; since it's proper Linux it should be hackable)
The Official BOOX StoreBOOX PiccoBOOX Picco is a card-sized ePaper device with front light, physical buttons, and touch, ideal for short reads instead of idle scrolling. Picco lets you fine-tune fonts, spacing, and margins, and it opens EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, and other popular ebook formats via the BOOX Tiles app. With the magnetic case, Picco attaches to the back of your phone for reading on the go.
Deciding what to submit to the Decentralised Messaging devroom at FOSDEM. Something related to XMPP of course :xmpp:
The deadline is 20th November, but I hope to put something up in the next few days before I forget 🍃
Anyone want to try and beat me to it? 😉
https://xmpp.org/2026/10/fosdem-2027-decentralised-messaging-devroom/
xmpp.orgFOSDEM 2027 Decentralised Messaging devroom | XMPP - The universal messaging standardThe XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF), together with our friends from the Matrix and Delta Chat communities, is organising a Decentralised Messaging devroom at FOSDEM, and we are looking for speakers!
Focused on federated and self-hostable chat, this …
Good software becomes smaller and lighter over time so that you can keep your existing hardware but suddenly be able to do more and more things with it
What if those who prematurely leaked details of CVEs were dropped from receiving advance notice of future CVEs?