Tribalism is when one group of people start to think people from another group are "wrong by default". It's the great-granddaddy of racism and sexism. And the most dangerous kind of tribalism is completely invisible: it has nothing to do with someone's "birth tribe" and everything to do with their affiliations: where they work, which sports team they support, which linux distribution they love.
Read more »Tribalism is the enemy within
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Open Source Macro vs. Micro - Part II
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As I mentioned in my previous post on this topic, Open Source and open technology trends continue to swing in one direction (up and to the right). Along this ever-growing open technology spectrum lie various projects and companies who hope to gain a competitive advantage through some type of open collaboration initiative.
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Why Choose "Open Source" for Free Software
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At this point, the only reason i still use the term "Free Software" is to align myself with the Free Software movement as opposed to the Open Source movement, but to end this stupid naming controversy and make both movements stronger, not only do we have to, but we should for our own benefit use the term "open source" instead. I did a little rant about this a while ago on YouTube.
Read more »Another term for open source
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Open source is the democratic process applied to software, just as Wikipedia is the same process applied to the collection of information.
Read more »Linux Sucks!
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Linux Sucks! Video from LinuxFest NW
Video and slides for my “Linux Sucks” presentation at Linux Fest Northwest are now available!
Blogging Platforms Need Open Standards Too!
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For reasons I won’t go into here, I want to move my previous blog off of my domain and import it into either Blogger or Vox — neither of which I’m really using at the moment. But getting my almost 600 posts out of ExpressionEngine is needlessly difficult, and doesn’t seem to work. Even if I could manage to do it the resulting data is still only readable by Movable Type.
Read more »[Old News] French presidential elections and free software
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«...I strongly recommend you the answers by José Bové, an "altermondialist" candidate, which where written by a team of specialists of free software in France. This can be considered as a political program for the Free Software movement in France...»
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True believers: The biggest cults in tech
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Spend enough time around technology and it starts to get under your skin. It became a part of you. You began to identify with it, even develop a belief system around it. You may have attended regular meetings of others similarly afflicted, and openly despised members of other groups. Before you were even aware of it, you'd joined a cult.
Read more »Linux as Messenger of Freedom
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My weekend was a nice balance of relaxation and thinking--provided by a good book (The Unincorporated Man), a trip to the beach, and a very thought-provoking question from a Linux.com reader.
Read more »The Open Source Philosophy
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There has been a lot of discussion recently on the Open Source Definition, and the use (and abuse) of the term "Open Source." One of the things that has been missing from this discussion is a higher-level overview of where the friction between "open source" and so-called "fauxpen source" comes from: intent.
Read more »Linux and Free/Open Source Software: Why Code For Free? (part 1)
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How can anyone make a living writing Free software? Why should a coder work for free? These questions, and others, are answered in this two-part series. Today we learn why Free and Open Source software are very important even to end users who are not coders.
Read more »Astronomical Software Wants To Be Free: Free Software is one answer to a world built in code
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Lawrence Lessig: « These questions have been the challenge of Stallman's life.Through his works and his words, he has pushed us to see the importance of keeping code “free.” Not free in the sense that code writers don't get paid, but free in the sense that the control coders build be transparent to all, and tha
Read more »Are Linux apps and games worth paying for?
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The Linux operating system is free; you can download it without paying any licensing fees. Despite this, Linux hasn't become a household name. Paradoxically, it may be the perceived dearth of commercial applications which is a cause.
Read more »Is open source losing its soul?
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Has open source come to include so much that it's somewhat meaningless? If so, should we return to the free-software roots that defined its infancy?
Read more »Linux is about choice (pt 2)
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Part two of my rant deals with another situation that is slightly different - "Why then, do applications (or their developers) decide to take away [or keep] that choice?"
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