Tag: free software
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ScummVM Project Hits 2.0
There is a large volunteer workforce on the internet that keeps their favorite games alive. You might know that I’ve been working on the ioquake3 engine for the past 12 years to keep people playing Quake 3 and help the other games and mods that use that engine stay alive. ScummVM has been in development…
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Unpaid Labor and Hiring Decisions Based on Free Software Contributions
Ashe Dryden with an older article on the subject of who can give their development time to free or open source software, and who benefits from it: I don’t know that we can easily measure how much labor actually goes into creating the software that we use every day. Software that we not only benefit from…
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We’re All Doomed: Part LXVIII
SourceForge has taken it upon themselves to resurrect “abandoned” projects. Of course, the projects aren’t actually abandoned and have just moved elsewhere so what SourceForge is actually doing is taking free software installers, loading them up with ads, and then shitting them out on SourceForge download servers. You can see the full list of projects…