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The Gilded Age of Open Source is Over!
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The Gilded Age of Open Source is over - Joe Brockmeier

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Evolving Git for the next decade

Git is ubiquitous; in the last two decades, the version-control system has truly achieved world [...]

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"[Ryan Sipes] would also like it quite a bit if Linux distributions stopped turning off telemetry."

#JoeBrockmeier, 2024

https://lwn.net/Articles/982610/

That so Ryan? What privacy-aware people would like is for you to stop trying to ship software with built-in spyware, that monitors how we use the software, and beams it back to HQ. Please and thank you.

Good on the teams running GNU/Linux distros for responding to our expectation that "telemetry" is opt-in, not turned on by default (opt-out).

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Lessons from the death and rebirth of Thunderbird

Ryan Sipes told the audience during his keynote at GUADEC 2024 in Denver, Colorado that the Thu [...]

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"Ryan Sipes told the audience during his keynote ... that the Thunderbird mail client 'probably shouldn't still be alive'. Thunderbird, however, is not only aliveβ€”it is arguably in better shape than ever before. According to Sipes, the project's turnaround is a result of governance, storytelling, and learning to be comfortable asking users for money."

#JoeBrockmeier, 2024

https://lwn.net/Articles/982610/

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#email #EmailClients #Mozilla #Thunderbird

Lessons from the death and rebirth of Thunderbird

Ryan Sipes told the audience during his keynote at GUADEC 2024 in Denver, Colorado that the Thu [...]

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