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In those late 20th century days of FOSS ascendancy, any adoption of FOSS by some organization, whether a business or a government, might be heralded loudly in headlines or comment sections or even by the organization PR departments themselves. Stencils proclaiming a company's "love" for Linux are the archetype from …

The multi-colored 3.5" floppy disk pack gave the effort a sort of festive air, as if somehow the huge, colorful murals spread across either side of the dining area in my favorite tacqueria across town were witness to the process via small-but-inedible emissaries.

My only connection was over our …

(OK, so I want to do several things with this, but to dive right now into the meta of all of them is going to work against some of my purpose, so I'll try to come back to that exposition.)

For now, there's an essential point I want to get …

I'd been aware of version control for years, in the pre-distributed era of CVS, as SVN started to be a thing. I never used it much other than sometimes to check out code to take a look at it. Usually tarballs were available and there seemed to be little point …

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It's common in free software circles to try to disambiguate which sense of the English word free we mean by saying "think free as in speech not free beer".

Though one can still presumably get free beer from friends (or friends of friends) at parties and …