From fb10ed4ce54c66720b19b3a8c5e8a296c1fa1dfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2025 13:44:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Final slides, I think. They are very wordy, as noted. --- index.html | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- what-bkuhn-was-going-to-say.md | 6 +++ 2 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 35fedf8..63b9881 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ +
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Microsoft Acquires GitHub

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Meanwhile, in Copyleft Land …

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In the late 1990s, it became obvious that the Free Software Foundation USA + (FSF USA) was not able to do every possible task for the toolchain + projects, which included: +

  • Copyright Assignment
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  • Running all infrastructural servers for every GNU project
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A compromise was reached, creating the Sourceware project (which years + later became an SFC member project).

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SourceWare is different

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Because the project was founded by developers who valued copyleft, + Sourceware remains always unwilling to allow for-profit interests influence + the hosting.

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This resistance by individuals from allowing for-profit control continued + — even though Sourceware's physical servers physically reside in + donated rack space from Cygnus (then Red Hat and now IBM).

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Sourceware is admittedly not the infrastructure of choice for folks who + don't do low-level C/C++ programming, but it does serve the needs of that + community well.

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There is some other hope as well!

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Please take a look at the Forejgo project, and the German-based + non-profit, Codeberg.

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There are many other similar systems, we think Forejgo is strategic + because they have attempted to make the system feature and interface + compatible with GitHub, which as we saw in our survey at the start of + the talk is by-far the most popular proprietary hosting solutions used by + FOSS developers.

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Follow-Up / Talk License

Please donate to become a Conservancy Sustainer: https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

diff --git a/what-bkuhn-was-going-to-say.md b/what-bkuhn-was-going-to-say.md index 8f946fe..749ee2f 100644 --- a/what-bkuhn-was-going-to-say.md +++ b/what-bkuhn-was-going-to-say.md @@ -222,3 +222,9 @@ While we don't like the term, Bradley calls this “free as in cocaine”. +## Final Slides + +The remain slides are very wordy. I did start to feel my symptoms works +around 13:45 local, so while I'd sped up, I then slowed down. The slides +should probably be edited, the text of what's there placed here, and the +words on the slide should be less.