The Gilded Age of Open Source is Over!
#NL #CityTV #JoeBrockmeier #FOSS #Neoliberalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTBgvhdz9VU&t=2729s


"#Git must evolve"
Dude, your site has to evolve. I had to turn on the 56K Modem to read this article.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1057561/bddc1e61152fadf6/
#Linux #FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #LinusTorvals #JoeBrockmeier #Versioning #VersionControl #Programming #Coding #Code #SoftwareDevelopment
"[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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"Ryan Sipes told the audience during his keynote ... that the Thunderbird mail client 'probably shouldn't still be alive'. Thunderbird, however, is not only aliveβit 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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