Since the sustainability of open source is a hot topic due to the xz debacle, and so many people keep suggesting asking for donations, I feel I need to post this. I'm not involved with xz, but like it's maintainer, I live in Finland.
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Lars Wirzenius
Since the sustainability of open source is a hot topic due to the xz debacle, and so many people keep suggesting asking for donations, I feel I need to post this. I'm not involved with xz, but like it's maintainer, I live in Finland.
Lars Wirzenius
1/ It’s a big day for the Radicle community :space_invader: We're excited to announce the rollout of our first release candidate for Radicle 1.0 — our most significant update to date :tada: Start collaborating today Here’s an overview of what’s new 🧵
Lars Wirzenius
2/ This release marks the stabilization of Heartwood, the peer-to-peer protocol that powers Radicle with a sovereign data network for code collaboration and publishing, built on top of Git. Heartwood addresses the usability and performance concerns faced during previous protocol iterations while doubling down on Radicle's secure and resilient primitives. Learn more about Heartwood:
Lars Wirzenius
Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷
@liw The true crazy is that all of us can just do that at home now. Heck, a lot of folks reading this could do it on our phones. (Compilation would probably melt them though.)
Herr TurTur
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Lars Wirzenius
I blogged about why #Debian is the way it is.
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Alfred M. Szmidt
@liw "that consists only of free and open source software" -- a goal that Debian got rid of. 😠
blake shaw 🇵🇸
@liw great read! even for someone who is familiar with the most of the ideas behind the project.
Lars Wirzenius
Happy birthday, #Debian On this day in 1993, that's 30 years ago, Ian Murdock announced the imminent release of a new Linux distribution. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHistory?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Debian-announcement-1993.txt
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Jeff Miller (orange hatband)
@liw Ah, SLS, my first distro. Recently returned to daily personal Linux with Debian on a new ThinkPad, and although the return was bumpy, it was familiar and problems were easily fixed. Thank you for the reminder of Debian's anniversary!
Philip McGrath
> What will make this release better than SLS? > …
Lars Wirzenius
On this day, in 1991, Linus Torvalds first announced Linux to the world, in the comp.os.minix Usenet group. I had written a tiny bit of code in that code: the string formatting parts of the kernel logging function printk. Today, that code (with changes and improvements by other people) runs on billions of devices, on all continents, on all oceans, in orbit, and on Mars. Possibly other places.
penguin42
@liw Wikipedia has you down as taking Linus to see a talk by RMS in '91; I'm trying to think when RMSs talk in Manchester was, probably a bit after that; Owen Leblanc (who introduced me to Linux in about ~92) had organised it; I remember it as a strange mix of computer and legal people there. |
In Finland, appealing to the public for donations requires prior permission from the police. Getting the permission is not automatic. Selling stuff far beyond a reasonable valuation counts as asking for donations. Even just saying that you accept donations can get you sued. It doesn't matter if you do it as a private person, as a company, or as a non-profit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_Collection_Act