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Part of a series, Unsustainability at Scale
It’s Thursday afternoon. Javier, Senior Engineer, opens a pull request on the company’s open source framework of choice. It…
Prevailing open source wisdom tells us to make every practical choice about projects, from revision control to licensing and distribution, to maximize adoption. Adoption was the…
Thank God I came up in the Austin startup scene. In Austin, one of the time-tested nuggets of folk wisdom in my set was:
“Nobody gives a damn about your stupid fucking idea.”
The hardest criticism of License Zero to take, by far, has come from friends devoted to Free Software. Largely thanks to their input, I’m pleased to announce a new public license for License Zero projects that I think speaks directly to what they fear I’ve forgotten. I’ll be making it…
I’ve written that License Zero ought to be a simple machine, an artless device — plain, transparent, and self-consciously scrutable. But the simplest machine does nothing at all. I’m wondering whether License Zero shouldn’t add one more service to its…
sustainable software in the open
Open Source is a shopping spree. Open Source is code with friends on the Web. Open Source is a list of magic licenses.
