hpr4705 :: Free Software Is Wasted On You Teens
Asked (sort of) to sell teens on FOSS, Trollercoaster spends an episode telling them not to bother.
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Freedom is not Free .
Examining the difference between freedom and free of cost. In the world of free software the main emphasis is on the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software, not on its lack of cost.
Freedom 0–3 (verbatim reference)
- The four freedoms, GNU/FSF: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
- Richard Stallman: https://www.stallman.org/
Named FOSS figures (freedom 3 list)
- Linus Torvalds (Linux): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
- Dries Buytaert (Drupal): https://dri.es
- Guido van Rossum (Python): https://gvanrossum.github.io
- Ian Murdock (Debian): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock
- Brian Behlendorf (Apache): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Behlendorf
- Miguel de Icaza (GNOME/Mono): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza
Infrastructure block (post beer 1)
- curl / Daniel Stenberg: https://curl.se and https://daniel.haxx.se
- xkcd 2347 (dependency comic): https://xkcd.com/2347/
- xz backdoor, CVE-2024-3094: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
- Andres Freund's original disclosure: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4
Licensing block (beer 2–3)
- GPL: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
- MIT License: https://opensource.org/license/mit
- FreeBSD: https://www.freebsd.org
- macOS/Darwin BSD lineage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
- PlayStation using FreeBSD (Orbis OS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbis_OS
Industry acquisitions (beer 4)
- Microsoft acquires GitHub, 2018, $7.5B: https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-github-for-7-5-billion/
FOSDEM field report (beer 4–5)
- FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org
- Ladybird browser / Andreas Kling: https://ladybird.org
- Godot Engine: https://godotengine.org
- Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io
- Redis → Valkey fork: https://valkey.io
- Terraform → OpenTofu fork: https://opentofu.org
Homework block (beer 5)
- Ollama: https://ollama.com
- Codeberg: https://codeberg.org
- LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org
- Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox