I am a huge fan of FLOSS: free\/libre open-source software. My website runs on CentOS Linux, one of my home machines runs Kubuntu (you Gnome users are lost), I use emacs (down you vi fiends!), Anti-Vir, Crimson Editor, Firefox, Apache, PHP, BitTorrent, Python, WordPress, and so many more I can\u2019t count them all.<\/p>\n
I have often thought about how\/whether I can contribute to these projects. The ones I use are all worthy of support, and I suspect many more would be if they got some momentum behind them. And I don\u2019t have the time, skill, desire, or energy to try to pitch-in on bug fixes, feature adds, porting, or any of the other thousand and one things these projects ask for.<\/p>\n
I contribute by linking back to those projects. I tell my friends and family about them, and try to get them to use them and spread the love, so to speak. On a few projects I have contributed to their donations page. And I contribute to those projects by releasing libraries of my own.<\/p>\n
Code I\u2019ve written, mostly in the forms of low-level data structures and little utility functions, may not be very sexy, or even ever get used, but I put it out there for folks to grab.<\/p>\n
I love the determination and drive shown by those pushing forward on FLOSS projects, and I wish I could contribute more. Maybe some day I\u2019ll be able to, but for now, thanks for your efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am a huge fan of FLOSS: free\/libre open-source software. My website runs on CentOS Linux, one of my home machines runs Kubuntu (you Gnome users are lost), I use emacs (down you vi fiends!), Anti-Vir, Crimson Editor, Firefox, Apache, PHP, BitTorrent, Python, WordPress, and so many more I can\u2019t count them all. I have …
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