Ciarán’s free software notes

There’s a new essay on gnu.org about Avoiding Ruinous Compromises. I guess the main point is that if we want the freedoms of free software to eventually come as standard, we need people to take freedom into consideration when choosing software. Or as Stallman puts it, we need to change people’s mindset, rather than looking Read more »

(Post publication note: I hoped to come back and finish this, but haven’t found time yet. As a software freedom lobbyist in Brussels, I’m worried by the prospect of anti-free-software corporations being able to claim to represent the free software community. Funding software development is fine, but we need to make clear that, politically, these Read more »