Drew DeVault's blog

Prusa is a 3D printer manufacturer which has a long history of being admired bythe 3D printing community for high quality, open source printers. They have beenstruggling as of late, and came under criticism for making the firmware of theirMk4 printer...

Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, has been subjectto numerous allegations of misconduct. He stepped down in 2019, and followinghis re-instatement in 2021, a famous open letter was published in whichnumerous organizations...

I am working on rousing the Hare community to get theword out about our work. I have drafted the Hare evangelism guidelines tothis effect, which summarizes how we want to see our community bringing Hare tomore people.
We’d like to spread the word in a way which is respectful of the attention ofothers – we’re explicitly eschewing unsolicited prompts for projects toconsider writing/rewriting in Hare, as well as any paid sponsorships oradvertising. Blog posts about Hare...

Some free software projects reject anonymous or pseudonymous contributions,requiring you to author patches using your “real name”. Such projects have aso-called “real name” policy; Linux is one well-known example.1
The root motivations behind such policies vary, but in my experience the mostoften cited rationale is that it’s important to establish the provenance of thecontribution for copyright reasons. In the case of Linux, contributors are askedto “sign-off”...