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A Free License Isn’t Enough | The Technotaph
http://blog.marktraceur.info/2014/05/06/a-free-license-isnt-enough
MarkTraceur's blog about tech, free software, and life. A Free License Isn’t Enough. Today, GitHub announced that Atom. Their full-featured IDE, would be “Open Source”. GitHub, that’s not enough. You announced Atom several months ago. Now you’ve changed your mind. Well, I don’t buy it. I don’t buy that a company dedicated to providing a system that traps free software developers in a non-free ecosystem has the best interests of the free software community at heart. Are awesome alternatives to it, and rem...
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Return to Freedom and Order | The Technotaph
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MarkTraceur's blog about tech, free software, and life. Return to Freedom and Order. Almost a year ago, I wrote about a combination of freedom and order. This article is not a re-examination of the concepts set forth there, though that may be necessary. This is a more philosophical approach to analyzing a phrase I’ve been considering for months. Great worlds come into existence due to great order. Great works come into existence due to great freedom. Addons, Extensions, and Mods – Oh My! You may use these.
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Constitutional Law | The Technotaph
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MarkTraceur's blog about tech, free software, and life. Category Archives: Constitutional Law. Return to Freedom and Order. Almost a year ago, I wrote about a combination of freedom and order. This article is not a re-examination of the concepts set forth there, though that may be necessary. This is a more philosophical approach to analyzing a phrase I’ve been considering for months. Great worlds come into existence due to great order. Great works come into existence due to great freedom. These versions ...
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Politics | The Technotaph
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MarkTraceur's blog about tech, free software, and life. Sorry to top-post, but a friend of mine has recently convinced me basically the opposite of what I’m saying in this post, and I needed to be sure that this historical context-providing post was framed in the right light, which now includes me disagreeing with my past self. The original post is preserved below, again, for historical reasons. How many of you are feminists? Nearly everyone raises their hands). See the definition of feminism. With that ...
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Addons, Extensions, and Mods – Oh My! | The Technotaph
http://blog.marktraceur.info/2012/07/07/addons-extensions-and-mods-oh-my
MarkTraceur's blog about tech, free software, and life. Addons, Extensions, and Mods – Oh My! I’ve been doing a lot of work, recently, in three different projects: MediaWiki. In each of these projects, there exists at least one way to add on small, additional features, or change the way the software behaves. It has struck me as a very interesting construct, and I think that it could be a very useful thing for almost any project to have. So, I’d like to share what I’ve learned. The final example is one ne...
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The New Shape of the Free Software Movement | The Technotaph
http://blog.marktraceur.info/2014/08/22/the-new-shape-of-the-free-software-movement
MarkTraceur's blog about tech, free software, and life. The New Shape of the Free Software Movement. Once upon a time, a movement started. Richard Stallman observed that he was better served by having the freedom to modify and share software, and he codified that observation in a manifesto, in several licenses over time, and in the software that he and others built that were distributed under those licenses. Thirty years have passed. I should be able to use software under any conditions I choose. These a...
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On Feminism | The Technotaph
http://blog.marktraceur.info/2013/07/16/on-feminism
MarkTraceur's blog about tech, free software, and life. Sorry to top-post, but a friend of mine has recently convinced me basically the opposite of what I’m saying in this post, and I needed to be sure that this historical context-providing post was framed in the right light, which now includes me disagreeing with my past self. The original post is preserved below, again, for historical reasons. How many of you are feminists? Nearly everyone raises their hands). See the definition of feminism. With that ...
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Drawing the Line | The Technotaph
http://blog.marktraceur.info/2014/03/01/drawing-the-line
MarkTraceur's blog about tech, free software, and life. I’ve had some experiences recently where very devoted and thoughtful free software advocates have told me that they prefer not to consider the tenets of free software when they evaluate the merits of network services. They’re referring primarily to the essay from RMS. I encourage you to think long and hard before signing up for the next non-free web service. Encourage people to be a little more mindful. Run your own instance of a free servic...A hre...
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On the W3C DRM business | The Technotaph
http://blog.marktraceur.info/2013/05/10/on-the-w3c-drm-business
MarkTraceur's blog about tech, free software, and life. On the W3C DRM business. From the W3C CEO’s Q&A pages. A situation where premium content is relegated to applications inaccessible to the Open Web or completely locked down devices would be far worse for all. When I first visited the page, commenting was disabled, so I wrote one anyway. Its text is below. But of course you realize that’s what you’re doing. Are you going to have Microsoft sign our browsers’ binaries? On Feminism →. You may use these.
