Licensing software
Open source is failing
These are some thoughts on Free Software and Open Source. It's a work in progress, as I try to figure out how I want to license my own software in the future, and why I think it's important.
Software Needs To Be More Expensive
Software, like coffee, is too artificially cheap, and we need to make it more expensive. I have one suggestion for how to do that.
Open-Source Exploitation - David Whitney - NDC London 2024
In this session we'll do a deep dive into the history of open-source software, it's ethical issues in the modern, hyper-capitalised development landscape, and how we can survive, as humans in a world where the hobbyist computer clubs of the early microcomputing era founded practices that are being weaponised against the individual in the 2020s.
A vital, rollercoaster session about something that effects the livelihood of every developer - and is about finding the humanity in the centre of our software.
Know Your Limits: On Surviving Open Source by Carlton Gibson
Dr. Carlton Gibson presents his talk, "Know Your Limits: On Surviving Open Source" to the Djangonaut Space 2024 Session 1 team.
What Part of "... for Life" Don't You Understand?" by Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Jacob Kaplan-Moss opens up about his experience being a core developer and maintainer of Django, ending in depression and burnout.
Dual licensing GPL for fame and profit
Dual licensing with GPL is the idea that if I own a certain piece of GPL code, I can also relicense it as a proprietary library. This is how Oracle licenses Java and how QT licenses QT.
On Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL
Richard Stallman comments on dual-licensing.
Various Licenses and Comments about Them
Comments on dual-licensing from the Gnu.org project.
Corporate Open Source is Dead
IBM is buying HashiCorp for $6.4 billion. That's four months after HashiCorp rugpulled their entire development community and ditched open source for the 'Business Source License.' As someone on Hacker News pointed out so eloquently:
IBM is like a juicer that takes all the delicious flavor out of a fruit
skywhopper replied:
HashiCorp has done a good job of pre-draining any flavor it once had.