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Ian Kelling
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FSF President & Senior Sysadmin (https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board). My personal website is https://iankelling.org
Just published https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/a-message-from-fsf-president-ian-kelling. I share some of my thoughts about @fsf and free software and why I think you should donate to the FSF (if you can).
Just published https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/a-message-from-fsf-president-ian-kelling. I share some of my thoughts about @fsf and free software and why I think you should donate to the FSF (if you can).
@torvalds FSF wrote the GPL and we don't agree with your interpretation here. And from what I've read, Vizio distributed GNU Bash and GNU GlibC in their TV and this involves LGPL as well. I don't take your post seriously and wouldn't normally reply but you have a megaphone which might distract people.
@jxself I'm still processing FSF's 40th anniversary last weekend, and finally got to reading this wonderful blog post https://jxself.org/fsf-40.shtml @jxself . Thank you Jason.
FYI: CVS in Massachusetts has fall 2025 COVID-19 vaccines available. Today I walked in and got mine in 2 minutes.
Happy Sysmas aka System Administrator Appreciation day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Administrator_Appreciation_Day. I think Sysadmin's themselves should celebrate on a Sunday (today). Related: I emailed Martin F. Krafft https://wiki.debian.org/madduck a few years ago to ask: why did he make the Debian checkarray cronjob run on Sunday? No answer yet. I change that on all systems I admin. Something tells me that appointing Sundays as the day for finding and fixing broken raid arrays was a crime against system administrators everywhere.
@mattl Needs more bogomips.
@mattl Hmmm, you are a fountain of good ideas. KDE can scale Screen: Thank-GNU™ ;P