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Open Source and Free Software Considered Harmful — marisa's "blog"
(It's best to read this blog post after reading Steve Klabnik's The culture war at the heart of open source and What comes after “open so...
Open Source Male Privilege Checklist | Geek Feminism Wiki | Fandom
This is a Privilege checklist for men in Open Source. The leader of any open source project I contribute to is probably of my gender. The vast majority of my co-contributors are of my gender. If I...
Solutions Privilege: How privilege shapes the expectations of solutions, and why it’s bad for our work addressing systemic injustice
Hi everyone, quick disclaimers. Game of Thrones is back, and it runs on Sunday nights, when I’m usually doing my writing, so the next several blog posts will likely decrease in quality and coherence. The last few days also found my kids with food poisoning. I will spare you
Coraline Ada Ehmke: The Rising Ethical Storm in Open Source
In the twenty years since the term “open source” was coined by Christine Peterson, our community has grown astronomically, all the while learning from its successes and failures. A lot has changed for open source developers in the past two decades. But the political and technological landscape has also changed.
The social contract of open source
Even though I gave a keynote [https://youtu.be/tzFWz5fiVKU?t=48m55s]with an accompanying blog post [https://snarky.ca/setting-expectations-for-open-source-participation/] all about setting expectations for open source participation, I felt it was time to do another blog post to directly address the issue of
Tyranny of Permissionlessness
open source’s narrow focus further empowers those with other ways to exclude
Tyranny of Permissionlessness
open source’s narrow focus further empowers those with other ways to exclude
Response to Alex Kings Blog Post: Open Source Motivations
My response and disagreement with Alex Kings blog post entitled "Open Source Motivations" about how he feels about contributing Plugins to WordPress.org
Katerina Marchán (@zkat@toot.cat)
Open source maintainers of major projects (hi) are not ready to accept and talk about how the cultural insistence on permissive licensing is just straight up labor exploitation taking advantage of our addiction to popularity (also hi). We’re doing this to ourselves too, you know.
Introducing ATProtoFans: A New Way to Support Creators You Love - ATProtoFans Blog
How’s That Open Source Governance Working for You? | HackerNoon
Isn’t it weird that the radically democratic miracle of open-source collaboration is so full of monarchical dictatorships?
Non-Coding Contributors in Open Source
The tradition of privileging only technical skills triggers imbalance and inequality.
