Our kids mostly use Ubuntu GNU/Linux at home. We don’t use too many parental controls right now… the main ones are non-technical. This probably isn’t why you came here but do read on, the non-technical framework gets at the reasons we look for technical parental controls in the first place. So here’s me on my …
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Free Software Claus is Coming to Town
I help organize a conference for Free Software enthusiasts called SeaGL. This year I’m proud to report that Shauna Gordon McKeon and Richard Stallman (aka “RMS”) are keynote speakers. I first invited RMS to Seattle 13 years ago, and finally in 2015 it all came together. In his words: My talks are not technical. The …
Does the FSF need better top-down social skills?
Larry Cafiero and Joe Brockmeier are two big voices for technological freedom. They’re both pretty fired up about RMS’s f-you epitaph of Jobs. Generally you want the figurehead of a public foundation to be, uh, attractive. Intellectually, maybe even physically. Right? Not only does the cause itself have to make sense, these people need to attract …
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What’s wrong with the GNU autotools?
The GNU build system (aka Autotools) is/are too fricking hard to use. But I’m split… when the conventions of autotools are embraced, the product is quite portable. Though not very maintainable. Is it impossible to be infinitely adaptable and still be user friendly? Ian Lance Taylor captures what’s wrong with autotools quite nicely. Ian says …