Trickle Down My Money
The folk that follow my blog will be aware that’s I’m fairly politically active and tend towards a left leaning consensus on political thinking. One of the capitalist notions that always struck me as...
View ArticleAs a System of Social Rules
Thanks to Sirrus for providing an interesting comment for me to respond to. I’m making a new blog entry because the original one wasn’t as seriously intellectual and I want a space to talk about this...
View ArticleWhat the Market Can Bear
I was listening to an interesting video of the rather flamboyant Jimmy McMillan of the rent is too damn high party campaigning for the New York Governor’s office and he brought to mind the recent...
View ArticleUDS Narwhal – Monday
Keynote Mark Shuttleworth kicked off this week’s UDS with a couple of interesting messages. First was the focus on quality now that we’ve got a fair way through both the cadence and design pushes which...
View ArticleNo Business Like Bad FOSS Business
In response to Bruce Byfield’s article on how We shouldn’t feel bad when businesses have no morals. I feel compelled to point out the flaw in his logic and hopefully add some sense to why moral outrage...
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Ubuntu’s Non-Free Parabox
Our venerable friend Jono Bacon has posted an interesting blog post concerning the outcome of the bug to enable the nonfree installation of Flash on Ubuntu. It would have manifested itself in the...
View ArticleCome for the Price, stay for the Freedom?
It’s time for impossible to prove conjecture Tuesday! Today I’ll be looking at freedom and price. Those two great pillars of our movement from barbaric propriety and gouging monopolies into a bright...
View ArticleNHS Reform & Other Privatisations
With the passing of the NHS reform bill in the UK last week, I’ve been reflecting on the discussion that went on between the conservative supporters and almost everyone else in the country who was...
View ArticleSoftware isn’t Dead
I was reading with a critical eye this article by The Register hack Matt Asay. It’s titled “Microsoft’s Surface proves software is dead” and right away we have a terrible misnomer. Software isn’t dead,...
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Platform Money is Key to Free Software Success
Post was drafted Feb 2nd, delayed for review but is published now without finale edits. Platforms are everything these days. They drive users in specific, and well structures ways and can make or break...
View ArticleWhat is my Work Ethic?
In response to this post about getting a job after graduating. I think the core of finding a job and being motivated to do it is: How are you going to serve the people around you? At the end of the day...
View ArticleThe Dictator’s Handbook is Self Falsifying
I’ve been reading “The Dictator’s Handbook” this week, a recommendation from CGP-Grey (youtube) and a damn good one. It’s a description of how people who want power, get power and how they keep it once...
View ArticleResponsibility in Software
Pepper & carrot creator David Revoy has created a good blog post that goes into the problem that he’s personally had with the new release of Inkscape 0.92. The issue with text and svg is actually...
View ArticleWaste to the Top
Humans are interesting creatures, we are animals that need a certain amount of resources to survive and then again some more resources after that to make life easier, or just less likely to collapse...
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