Tag Archives: Open Source

The Next 10 Years of Software Freedom: Your thoughts?

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

Heading to Indiana today to speak at OSS 2010. Topic of my talk? The Next 10 Years of Software Freedom — Impact of Web Applications, Mobile Computing, and Cloud Computing. If you were giving this talk, what would you want … Continue reading →

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Motivation and Contributions in Open Source: Stop Romanticizing Unpaid Contributions

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

Does motivation matter? Open source contributors are increasingly people who are paid to work on open source. GNOME contributor Lucas Rocha asks how this impacts communities over the long term. This is not a new question by any stretch. People … Continue reading →

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Real Linux advocates educate, not humiliate

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Joe Brockmeier

Checking Twitter yesterday I caught a link to “Command Line Idiocy,” a post that rips apart an article on “10 powerful CLI tools.”  Here’s a short sample of the flavor of the piece: It would seem Linux users can’t catch … Continue reading →

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Vim 301: Getting Adept at Vim

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Joe Brockmeier

If you’ve read and worked with the previous two tutorials on Vim, you’re probably getting reasonably comfortable with the editor. At this point, you should be able to get around very nicely. This time around, I’d like to look at … Continue reading →

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Know your audience: Going beyond “true believers”

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Joe Brockmeier

In line with my post last week about how to market FOSS, and what to lead with, Seth Godin talks about listening to the true believers. In short, if you look at just about any topic area you’ll find “true … Continue reading →

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KMail, IMAP, and GMail

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Joe Brockmeier

Wondering if anyone else is experiencing this… I’m using KMail for a GMail account to get mail via IMAP. At least two or three times a day, I have to restart KMail because it just hangs trying to refresh folders … Continue reading →

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