I missed the attainment of the victory condition. Linus won.
I guess I wasn't paying that much attention.
Exhibit A: "If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won." -- Linus Torvalds, according to Needle, David (1998-10-01).
(Why Intel and Netscape bought into Linux. CNN.com. as retrieved from …
So, I have two FOSS "origin" stories, if you will, sort of my counterparts to the (in)famous frustrations with a printer driver about which you may have heard. It's how I remember coming into this FOSS world.
In the first, I went to go use this suite …
Just a note on nomenclature: I recognize that some people have very specific recommendations about what language to use when talking about software freedom. I appreciate the analysis behind these recommendations and largely agree with them (despite my other concerns about these folk edit dja 20211113).
Even so, I find …
Ah, summer: The time we look forward to as the time to work on all those odds-and-ends projects we just can't concentrate on during the semester.
So, here it is, late July, and I'm only now getting around to some things I've been meaning to commit to text about last …