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Same pattern of behaviour has been seen in Wayland development where arguments result in the perpetual bikeshedding of protocols. It had got to the point where Valve had threatened to start their own development platform Frog Protocols that rAn concurrently to main Wayland development. Only at that point was a concession made.
It seems like GNOME, FreeDesktop.org and Red Hat always end up the common denominators.
Tags: #FOSS, #Leadership, #FreeSoftware, #Disturbing, #OpenSource.
Tags: #FOSS, #Leadership, #FreeSoftware, #Disturbing, #OpenSource.
(4/4)…being a #FOSS leader isn't a *right*, it's a privilege. Everyone loves when ppl listen to them & promote their work, but no one has a *right* to it.
With a privilege come obligations to your community, & #leadership is such a powerful #privilege that there are grave requirements.
I am frustrated *weekly* that I'm held to a higher standard than most people in #FreeSoftware.
But that's the price I *should* to pay.
I wish some other #OpenSource leaders would start paying their fair share.
(2/4)…all #FOSS leaders are high functioning, intelligent, & politically capable. Sadly, many #OpenSource leaders apply that skill to dodge accountability when they've erred.
Leaders aren't gods; they're humans like us. Thus, they're are extremely flawed and have well-known cognitive biases (most notably on this point, self-serving bias). Humans say horrible things to each other in anger. They fail at some their endeavors.
Good leaders own such occurrences, apologize, & fix it…
(1/4) A #disturbing trend I observed over the last 30 years in leadership (speaking primarily of #FOSS #leadership) is a slow but steady tendency as leaders get more powerful, they become increasingly unwilling to admit they've erred. I've observed this both with prior generation of #FreeSoftware leadership (eg: Moglen, Raymond, Rosen, Stallman), & with FOSS leaders contemporary to me (eg: Behlendorf, Dolan, Torvalds, Zemlin). …
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#FSFE today celebrates their 25ᵗʰ year at their annual meeting in Kraków, Poland: https://fsfe.org/about/summermeeting-schedule.en.html (it's a side event to #EuroPython ).
@kirschner (FSFE President) kindly personally invited me to be there, but sadly due to a transient medical issue, I couldn't make the long trip this week to the event.
Some might not know that the FSF Europe is *not* the #FSF; FSFE is an entirely different organization. FSFE has been doing great work the last 10 years!
I got a response off-Fedi from someone of authority at #Apache [sic] Software Foundation.
The answer remains (as seen on https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/introducing-the-asfs-new-logo ):
> “For security concerns and continuity of the software ecosystem, ASF Projects will continue using their established names”.
Can someone ELI5 what that means? It makes no sense to me (based on my own #FOSS NGO experience), but it's stated so definitively, I gotta check that I'm not missing something.
We're ≥ 3 years from this reasonable request…
…[Racist] Software Foundation has 💰 from Zuckerberg, #Huawei, Microsoft, #Google, #Apple, etc.
Name change branding & ® is trivially affordable for them.
Change the 🤬'ing name!
@brianbehlendorf (founder) even compared his struggle against #Microsoft was akin to genocide against the #Apache 🙄…
https://nativephilanthropy.candid.org/news/native-american-group-urges-apache-software-foundation-to-change-its-name/
… & never apologized.
The FSFE turned 25 this year!! Hurrah for a quarter century promoting and defending #SoftwareFreedom 🙌
Check out our timeline with our key achievements since 2001: https://fsfe.org/about/timeline/
C'est avec une grande excitation que nous vous proposons cet épisode sur @postmarketOS ! 📱
On a pris le temps de faire cette longue interview, dans la série sur #mobilelinux , pour raconter l'histoire de #postmarketOS , son fonctionnement et sa gouvernance.
C'est un projet qui nous tient particulièrement à coeur et cet épisode met en lumière le côté humain et organisationnel du projet.
👉 https://www.projets-libres.org/podcast/s4e21-postmarketos-linux-faire-durer-smartphone/
Un grand merci à @RannyBergamotte et @ayakael de s'être joint à nous.
On vous souhaite une excellente écoute 🎧 ou lecture 📖
#podcast #linux #opensource #freesoftware #logiciellibre #logicieslibres
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Podcast Projets Libres saison 4 épisode 21 : postmarketOS, Linux pour faire durer vos appareils pendant 10 ans !
Who cares, if the #French team wins a #football match or not, if we have a french #freeSoftware stack like this!
This. Is. Awesome!
Multi-party A/V calls with #SFU were the most important missing feature of #Movim. Hope to see it #Dino by @dino and other clients, soon.
Greetings from #Argentina!
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Tell me why oh why oh why oh that all programmers everywhere did not have a meeting decades ago and decided clearly between `elif`, `elseif`, and `elsif` as the universal standard to handle the dangling else ambiguity in context-free grammars!?!?!?!?!
#ContextMatters #DanglingElse #CFG #ContextFree #elif #elsif #elseif #programming #hacking #FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
I agree with your points 💯! This is what led to this in SFC's LLM-gen-AI recommendations:
https://sfconservancy.org/llm-gen-ai/llm-backed-generative-ai-recommendations.html#avoid-skill-atrophy
Cc: @next
(BTW, @EdTheDev, no worries about length of your reply; I like the 500 char limit on Mastodon, but am not bothered by those who use other ActivityPub implementations to use Fediverse for long-format content.)
#copyleft #AI #LLM #SFC #OpenSource #SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware #genAI
We are thrilled to present this episode on @postmarketOS 📱
We've taken the time to produce this in-depth interview as part of our series on #mobilelinux to tell the story behind #postmarketOS — how it works and its governance structure.
This project is especially close to our hearts, and this episode highlights the human and organizational aspects of the project.
👉 https://www.projets-libres.org/en/podcast/s4e21-postmarketos-linux-smartphone/
A huge thank you to @RannyBergamotte and @ayakael for joining us!
Thanks to Ranny for completely rewriting the English translation.
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We hope you enjoy reading this interview 📖!
#podcast #opensource #freesoftware
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Projets Libres podcast season 4 episode 21: postmarketOS, Linux to make your smartphone last for 10 years!
Folks here might be interested in this post I just made to the copyleft-@next mailing list — covering many issues including:
* Do we still need weak #copyleft at all?
* How do we deal with companies who use strong copyleft as a bait-and-switch?
* The so-called¹ “FOSS sustainability” problem.
https://lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/next/2026q3/000091.html
¹ In the age of #LLM-gen-AI, ppl still use the word “sustainable” to refer to #FOSS developers not getting paid enough is #disturbing.
Fun summer (or winter!) plans go great with #FreeSoftware merch: https://u.fsf.org/4bd #GNUPress #FSF #GNU
We'll be here for a few hours and possibly heading to a pub afterwards.
Come join us if you're in London and fancy a casual chat about #FreeSoftware!
- Date: Saturday 16th May 2026
- Time: midday - 4pm (London time)
- Location: Canada Water Library Meeting Room 1 (OpenStreetMap)
- RSVP: Reply to this message, email me, or message me here on the fediverse, so we know rough numbers.
Another year to make a #CyborgMonday joke! For your future cyborg self, invest in #software freedom!
https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
Also check out the hot deals on #freesoftware! Dozens of software projects available at deep discount prices. Act now!
I started migrating from #NextCloud to #Radicale, but iOS threw a spanner in the works (turns out accountsd only checks for A and not AAAA DNS records!) I decided to go into a "half-migrated" state: pointing myself to the new instance to continue testing while leaving my partner pointing to the old one.
That caused a problem: any events we created in the meantime wouldn't be synced to the other's devices.
vdirsyncer came in super handy and enabled a three-way sync between NextCloud, Radicale and my laptop! So, despite being on two completely different #CalDAV servers, we both see exactly the same state and all updates flow through seamlessly. And, when they switch instance, it will be like nothing ever happened, despite being on different servers for a few weeks.
Thank you #openStandards and #freeSoftware!