No Should be Your Default
You can always turn your 'no' into a 'yes', but it doesn't always go the other way
Articles in the opinion category
Open Source's Affects On a Career
Summary: I've been writing and maintaining Open Source Software for over 8 years now and it has been simultaneously the catalyst for the success I've had professionally and the misery I feel on a daily basis.
Open Source Software (a.k.a, Free and Open Source Software, F/OSS) has …
The Constant Struggle of F/OSS
Everyone has a different motivation when working on Open Source Software. That motivation can change over time both in quantity and in actual motivation. When the Free and Open Source Software (a.k.a., F/OSS) movement began, the motivation was clear: I have hardware and I should be able …
Cultures of Free Labor
There are a lot of companies that rely on Free and Open Source Software (a.k.a, F/OSS) and adoption of their solution within various language communities. Often times, these companies are providing some kind of software or solution as a service and they're basically packaging up the existing …
GitHub is Finally Fulfilling Its Promise of Social Coding
GitHub has made changes lately that are trending towards fulfilling the "Social" part of their "Social Coding" tagline. Recently this has taken two forms:
- They have made unlimited private repositories free for everyone and anyone who was paying them for private repositories gets a special badge for social caste status …