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2020-08-03
The Truth is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free
note from a kindred spirit
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2020-06-30
New Forum
in public, with thanks
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2020-06-23
Indie Code Catalog
calling on coders for the next evolution of L0
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2020-05-18
Freebies
unifying private licenses and waivers
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2020-05-15
Private License 8
clarifying and improving
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2020-05-13
Radically Simplifying
major streamlining underway
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2020-05-09
npm Funding Metadata
point users to your offer page
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2020-05-09
Radical Simplification
min code, max communication
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2020-03-29
Distribution Religion
a noncommercial hacker commune, a decade before GPL
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2020-03-27
Full Value
a VC and CIO on monetizing open source
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2020-03-27
Licensing or Service Advantage
why not both?
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2020-03-07
The Curse of Sustainability
learning to learn from game development
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2020-02-12
Progress Report
schemas and new CLI are stabilizing
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2020-01-30
Redesigning License Zero
notes on data records, protocol, building blocks, and motivation
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2020-01-26
Dirk Riehle on Single-Vendor Open Source Firms
FAU's professor for open source is interviewing successful firms
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2020-01-05
Notes on the Vending Protocol
more ways to buy and sell
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2020-01-02
Two (And More) Can Play at this Game
welcoming xs:code, a new open source dual licensing platform
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2019-12-15
Prosperity 3.0.0
noncommercial plus free trial, modernized
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2019-12-15
No Private Changes in the Commune
RMS and Linus both wanted patches back
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2019-11-30
License Zero 2.0
sell through L0, sell on your own
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2019-11-21
Recommended Viewing: Russell Keith-Magee at PyCon Australia
flash back to 2015
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2019-11-21
Two Bits
echoes of the dot-com bubble
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2019-11-20
Public Roadmap
a website for ongoing and upcoming efforts
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2019-11-13
Decentralized Dual Licensing
the bottom-up business model for open software
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2019-11-05
Prosperity 3.0.0-pre.1
bringing Prosperity up to par with Parity
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2019-11-04
Parity 7
a new major release at last
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2019-10-20
Parity 7.0.0-pre.3
fast approaching 7.0.0
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2019-09-21
Blue Oak for Permissive
retiring Charity in favor of Blue Oak
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2019-09-11
Parity 7.0.0-pre.1
cleaner, clearer, and easier to read
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2019-09-11
Patron License 1.0.0
reward patrons with license exceptions
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2019-09-03
Subsistence Programming
funding failure has a name
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2019-09-02
Kat Marchán’s System
putting L0 tools to work
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2019-08-26
But You Said I Could
a clear-eyed view of open software funding, impediments, and possibilities
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2019-08-24
Process of Elimination
destructive feedback you can expect for any credible funding idea
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2019-07-12
Parity 6 is Parity-6.0.0
express your license choice with SPDX
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2019-06-13
The Gospel In Brief
Share with fellow sharers. Charge everyone else.
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2019-05-24
Patron License
tunnel licensing through patronage
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2019-04-24
Enterpriseification
Open software changed big business. Should big business change it back?
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2019-04-18
Diglossia
limits on software success, hidden in plain sight
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2019-04-10
The Case for Selling Exceptions
a model for copyleft, in more ways than one
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2019-03-25
Close to the Money
distinctions without difference in software distribution
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2019-03-24
Founder Commitment
public accountability for the business side
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2019-03-16
Sustainability as a Service
open questions in communication and approach
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2019-02-28
Enterprise Pie
growing the pie doesn't guarantee a portion
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2019-01-21
Parity 6.0.0
Ever shorter. Ever clearer.
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2018-11-24
Parity 5.0.0
Listen to devs. Write a better license.
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2018-11-08
A Quick Note on SSPLv1
pushing the same limit for very different reasons
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2018-10-26
No Other Terms Before Me
the minimalist case for radical terms
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2018-10-17
Mapping Open Business Models
a systematic approach to practical models, proven and innovative
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2018-09-29
Coded Language
against the timid imagery of open source exceptionalism
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2018-09-16
Against the Two-Party System
in defense of the forgotten third way in open software licensing
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2018-09-14
Free to Take Freedom
Why can't free-for-free-software be free software itself?
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2018-09-08
Google’s Sam Ramji on Dual Licensing
a very clear strategy for open source companies that is still working
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2018-07-13
Talking About License Rules
a simple framework for grounded license-rule discussions
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2018-07-04
Gainful Software in the Open
choosing an important word carefully
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2018-06-30
npm, Ruby, Python, Maven, and More
first-class support for more package ecosystems
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2018-06-26
Refining
better licenses, better tools
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2018-06-14
Profit for Us, Sustainability for You
evolving the open source conversation to solve open source inequity
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2018-05-13
Commons Club
open source as accessory, copyleft as network
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2018-03-25
Availability Locks
freedom from choice might be what you want
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2018-03-05
Withholding
open source doesn't have to mean less
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2018-03-04
Fulcrums
what leverage do indie devs have to gain support?
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2018-02-21
Relicensing Permissive Work
picking battles one at a time
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2018-02-13
Peer Licensing Implemented
sustainable software through licensing, simplified
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2018-01-28
A Peer Private License
draft of developer-to-developer commercial and closed-source license
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2018-01-26
Developer Licensing
should License Zero stay between developers?
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2018-01-25
Found Licenses
nail seeks hammer, any hammer
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2018-01-22
Largesse Oblige
follow the money, note where it stops
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2018-01-10
We Can Remember You For It Wholesale
maintainers, gone from my sight
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2017-12-27
“De Minimis”
how not to disappear completely
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2017-10-16
Mercenary Rapport
moral blindness in open source as social media
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2017-10-15
Unsustainability at Scale
today's tools for yesterday's problems tomorrow
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2017-09-15
A Hacker Public License
free for open source
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2017-09-13
Open Source Accession via License Zero?
a paved path to permissivity
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2017-09-12
The License Zero Manifesto
sustainable software in the open