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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • get rid of companies making money off the FOSS

    I’m afraid if we discourage companies from adopting open source we’ll end up with even more closed source garbage.

    There are industry sectors where closed source is the norm, and it just leads to more vendor lock-in and less standardization and interop.

    I’m a bit young to say for sure, but I believe closed source was the norm in the software world 20-30 years ago and openness was stigmatized. I certainly don’t want to live in that world.














  • twitter happened, I guess

    But today I stumbled across a long twitter thread that I can only describe as intentional character assassination. The author of this thread is misrepresenting facts and making some pretty nasty accusations. Again this is not all that unusual, except for the fact that I was not invited to defend myself. […] The gist of this author’s thread is that I am a misogynist; and that I should not be taken seriously in any regard. I understand that efforts have been made to have me excluded from conferences, and to boycott the publisher of my books, etc.

    - Uncle Bob in 2017

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