Ad Terras Per Aspera » Free Software Magazine http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog Transmissions from the Little Blue Marble Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:27:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 FSM: Mister Pitcock’s wild ride http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2007/04/20/fsm-mister-pitcocks-wild-ride http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2007/04/20/fsm-mister-pitcocks-wild-ride#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:03:43 +0000 Patrick McFarland http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2007/04/20/fsm-mister-pitcocks-wild-ride/ I haven’t written about the FOSS community for awhile…

William Pitcock (aka nenolod, aka the guy who wrote Audacious, aka the guy behind atheme.org) has decided to, in spirit, respond to my earlier article about ESR and the Bazaar. Every good reply deserves a reply in turn.

Read the entire thing here at Free Software Magazine.

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]]> http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/12/05/from-xmms-to-audacious-the-history-of-a-winamp-clone/feed 0 Inside the mind of the enemy: the community http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/11/21/inside-the-mind-of-the-enemy-the-community http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/11/21/inside-the-mind-of-the-enemy-the-community#comments Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:58:31 +0000 Patrick McFarland http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/11/21/inside-the-mind-of-the-enemy-the-community/ Part 2 of my series is now available at Free Software Magazine.

Also, I’d like to apologize to my usual readers. After that archival CD/DVD article I wrote three weeks ago, I’ve been pretty burnt out on my usual blog subjects.

Update: My article has been Slashdotted.

]]> http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/11/21/inside-the-mind-of-the-enemy-the-community/feed 0 I write for Free Software Magazine http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/11/08/i-write-for-free-software-magazine http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/11/08/i-write-for-free-software-magazine#comments Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:21:07 +0000 Patrick McFarland http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/11/08/i-write-for-free-software-magazine/ Guess what? Tony Mobily asked me to write for Free Software Magazine, and I accepted his offer. My first article for them is available here.

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