Tag: software

Why I publish in the public domain
(Further development from my somewhat juvenile flailing in this direction here.)“We must die as egos and be born again in the swarm, not separate and self-hypnotized, but individual and related.”—Henry Miller, Sexus I spend entirely too much time thinking about software --- and other creative work --- licensing, particularly from an ethical perspective. The reason I do this is because I think licenses are a very interesting intersection of a rigorous legal instrument, a political manifesto...
The loom-maker's luddism
Software developers need a reality check. We are a trade that has spent decades feeling like we were the prime movers of progress through technological automation. Now that we've suddenly realized that we're subject to the same historical forces we applied to everyone else, we shouldn't back down. We cannot demand the benefits of the Industrial Revolution while simultaneously trying to build a software developer guild system to protect our own privileges. I see frequent statements online from de...