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Mar 31, 2021

Toccata and Fugue in Free Major

Last week I published a screed about software politics. I received lots of comments — thank you all for that. The responses were, for the most part, thought-provoking and invigorating. There was one comment in particular which I feel compelled to address. Several people took me to task for saying…

Rhetoric

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Toccata and Fugue in Free Major
Toccata and Fugue in Free Major

Mar 29, 2021

Giving up on Open Source Software

Recently, I was quoted in an interview at uses this saying I decided to stop using open source software whenever possible and use any available alternatives… After publication, I received an inquiry asking me to explain my reasoning — and this essay is my explanation. This explanation is narrowly focused…

Open Source

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Giving up on Open Source Software
Giving up on Open Source Software

Mar 24, 2021

“Free Software”: An idea whose time has passed

Almost forty years ago, in 1985, the idea of “Free Software” was born. That is not to say that the idea of sharing software with colleagues and making source code available was born. Ten years before the GNU Manifesto and the Free Software Foundation, I worked at a cloud services…

Free Software

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“Free Software”: An idea whose time has passed
“Free Software”: An idea whose time has passed
Robert M. Lefkowitz

Robert M. Lefkowitz

Software Architect, Retired

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