"No one buys [their] books" a report on the big publisher's court testimony.

wow:

"The DOJ’s lawyer collected data on 58,000 titles published in a year and discovered that 90 percent of them sold fewer than 2,000 copies and 50 percent sold less than a dozen copies. "

Yet, they sue to make sure libraries can not buy them (above and beyond copyright). They changed the laws so copyright lasts 95 years-- so no one can get to them.

good stewards of our cultural legacy?

https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books

title text: The Piña Colada song carves a trajectory across the chart over the course of the song.

(https://xkcd.com/2870)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2870)

Daily Telescope: Tracking the Sun’s path every day across the sky

The image is a vivid demonstration of the changing of the seasons.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/12/daily-telescope-tracking-the-suns-path-every-day-across-the-sky/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Filing issue before becoming an OS maintainer:
"I need feature X. "

Filing issue after becoming an OS maintainer:
"Thanks for implementing X. It would be great if you can add feature Y please. It will be useful to the users because of reasons like A, B, and C"

#opensource #oss #contributingtoOSS