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C Programmers Reality or Fiction

Today I want to talk about a common urban legend that is widely believed. That is the existence of people who write code in C for fun. I don't believe in it myself since I have never met someone who...

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The Myth of Meritocracy

Some people like to work on open source projects. They seem to think it is a meritocracy and they will get to work for people who are much more skilled, nicer, and less full of themselves then their...

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Hackers and the Ordinary Computer Users

Computer Users and Hackers, a match made in heaven, right? Wrong. See, there aren't first of all, enough free software hackers to go around. They always want to work on the next version of Ubuntu, or...

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The Importance of Ego

I was thinking today about the importance of the ego. Without the ego, you would not exist. I do not think too highly of any religious of spiritual system that tries to eliminate this vital component...

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Fork Games!

Today I want to talk about a controversial word in the free software community, Fork! Most software projects don't really need forks.  How many word processors, web browsers, cd burners etc do you...

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Free Culture Novels, where to post them?

So, I wrote a novel and "published" it.  Well, maybe publish isn't quite the right word.  I wrote it and distributed it on the internet.  I wrote it, without thinking about who my audience would be and...

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RMS Where to start

 So, for the record, I welcome Richard M. Stallman back to the board (or is that bored) of directors of the FSF.   Cancel Culture Witch hunts are simply bad policy, and it is absurd to try to get the...

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