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2025-02-02 12:09:15 +01:00
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2025-02-02 12:12:40 +01:00
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<h3><em>The Growing Body of Proprietary Infrastructure for FOSS Development: Repeating Bad History</em></h3>
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2025-02-02 12:09:15 +01:00
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2025-02-02 12:15:31 +01:00
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<p>Karen M. Sandler, Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC)</p>
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<p>Denver Gingerich, Director of Compliance, SFC</p>
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<p class="copious"><s>Bradley M. Kuhn, Policy Fellow & Hacker-in-Residence, SFC</s></p>
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2025-02-02 12:09:15 +01:00
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<p class="copious">Bradley sends his regrets; he tested positive for
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COVID-19 this morning and is quarantined.</p>
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<p>FOSDEM 2025, Sunday 2 February 2025</p>
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</section>
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2025-02-02 12:23:18 +01:00
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<section>
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<h3>😷</h3>
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<img align="right" width="30%" src="kant.jpg"/>
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<blockquote cite="FIXME">
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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will
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that it should become a universal law.<br/>
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<p align="right"> — Immanuel Kant</p></blockquote>
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<p class="copious" align="left">Bradley asked us to share the quote above and read this statement.</p>
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2025-02-02 12:32:05 +01:00
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</section>
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<section>
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<h3>FOSS Now Has a Long History</h3>
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<img width="25%" align="left" src="samuel-clemens.jpg" />
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-- make the blog quote overlap picture, no time to research again.
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-- Same is true on prior slide. -->
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<blockquote cite="FIXME">
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History doesn't repeat itself … but it often rhymes.
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<p align="right"> — Samuel Clemens (nom de plume: Mark Twain)</p></blockquote>
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2025-02-02 12:17:00 +01:00
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2025-02-02 12:41:02 +01:00
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<section>
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<h3>The VA Linux / Sourceforge Debacle</h3>
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<img align="left" height="50%" src="sourceforge-drifting-fsfe.png" />
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<p class="copious" align="right">Search
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“Dachary FSF Europe Sourceforge drifting” to find
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<a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2001/article2001-10-20-01.en.html">https://fsfe.org/news/2001/article2001-10-20-01.en.html</a> & read in
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real time.</p>
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2025-02-02 12:49:14 +01:00
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<section>
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<h3>Post-Sourceforge Diaspora</h3>
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<ul><li>Berlios</li>
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<li>Gna!</li>
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<li>Savannah</li>
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</ul>
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<p>There have even
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been <a href="https://www.igi-global.com/article/fork-not-fork/68147">academic
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whitepapers</a> written about this situation as late as 2011.</p>
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2025-02-02 12:23:18 +01:00
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2025-02-02 12:41:02 +01:00
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2025-02-02 13:07:34 +01:00
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<h2 class="top-title">An Old bkuhn Slide</h2>
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• Tom Preston-Werner<br/>
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•the <a href="http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everything.html">“open source almost everything”</a> guy<br/>
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•claimed at OSCON 2013:<br/>
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•“The GPL is a license of restrictions; I don’t like restrictions. just use MIT”<br/>
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2025-02-02 12:41:02 +01:00
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2025-02-02 13:19:15 +01:00
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<h3 class="top-title">Microsoft Acquires GitHub</h3>
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• Microsoft Acquired GitHub in 2018-10<br/>
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• … but Microsoft was <em>always</em> very excited about
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<strong> non-copylefted FOSS</strong> <br/>
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• They've been trying for 30 years to reduce the amount of
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copylefted code in FOSS.<br/>
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• GitHub was the obvious partner to help them do it.<br/>
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2025-02-02 12:09:15 +01:00
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<h3 >Follow-Up / Talk License</h3>
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<p>I have a keynote about another interesting topic tomorrow:
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<br/><a href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6153-the-growing-body-of-proprietary-infrastructure-for-foss-development-repeating-bad-history/">15:00
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in Janson on SUN 2025-02-02</a>
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<p>Please donate to become a Conservancy
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Sustainer: <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/">https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/</a></p>
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<img align="right" src="img/cc-by-sa-4-0_88x31.png" />
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<p class="copious">Presentation and slides are: Copyright © 2024, 2025 Bradley M. Kuhn,
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and are licensed under the <a rel="license"
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href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode">Creative
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Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International
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License</a>.</p>
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<p class="copious"> Some images included herein are ©’ed by others. I believe my use of
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those images is fair use under USA © law (which I also believe is the
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country of 1<sup>st</sup> publication under Berne). However, I suggest you
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remove such images if you redistribute these slides.</p>
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