Although the Linux Foundation seems to represent Linux and the entire Linux user community, many community members have complained for years that the organization has defaulted to representing only the interests of its corporate membership.
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Most FOSS leaders came into prominence during the 1980s and 90s and are now approaching, or have passed, the age when most people retire. Are free software organizations ready for the change that appears to be just around the corner?
Although the numerous approaches to open source sometimes seem at odds with each other, users and developers of open source software -- whether licensed "copyleft" or "permissive" -- are travelling similar roads.
Even if you're a liberal arts major with no background in technology or science, using Linux and other free software can empower you to take control of your computing environments.
Is it time for the Free Software Foundation to consider some new directions for the free software movement in the post-Stallman era?
Although the consensus seems to be that it was time for the founder of the GNU project and the Free Software movement to step down, we shouldn't forget his many contributions aimed at keeping tech free.
Since the demise of Geek Feminism and the Ada Initiative, who's supporting efforts to progress women's rights in the open source community?
Three resignations from important posts at the Apache Foundation in May point to a generational change that is happening at other Linux and open source organizations as well.
With or without the nod to GNU with the moniker GNU/Linux, desktop Linux is still the same under the hood. A rose is still a rose, as they say.
Has FOSS traded its shared values for success?
Want to use your skills to aid in the development and maintenance of GNU projects? Here are four more projects that could use your help.
Carter’s Corner
This article is a continuation of my last article on GNU projects that are in current need of maintainers. When I first read about the projects GNU needed help with, I was drawn to Gnubik from my own personal love of Rubik’s Cube puzzles. I ended up liking the program and wanted to help so I reached out to the maintainer, who replied back asking about my background and letting me know where help was needed at if I was still interested. Since then, I’ve slowly been helping out where I could and enjoying learning more about the code behind the program. I’m hoping that by writing about these projects, someone will have the time and skill set to help out that wasn’t aware of these projects. I also hope that even if people can’t help out they will download the software, try them out and maybe end up like me.
In addition to hosting a Raspberry Pi meetup in Washington D.C., Isaac Carter is a co-host on mintCast. He’s also a software engineer who enjoys working with Java, JavaScript, and GNU/Linux. When he’s not coding, you can find him reading on any number of subjects or on the golf course.