Thoughts about developing free software
Interesting ideas/perspectives. Their inclusion here does not necessarily indicate support or agreement by CMRG.
Software Culture
- Why Free Software developers should work on the bleeding edge by Ted Mittelstaedt
- Ending the tyranny of unix permissions by Joey Hess
- Financing Free Software Projects by Ben Mako Hill
- Why Debian is the One True Operating System by Bijan Soleymani
- Writing safe code, the perils of backwards-compatibility, and why free software relieves some of those pressures by Simon Waters
- Postel's Law -- Be conservative in what you emit, be liberal in what you accept (a.k.a. "the robustness principle")
- The use of language in framing the issues around software and DRM by Bruce Byfield
- World Domination 201 by Eric Raymond
- The Family Guide to Digital Freedom by Marco Fioretti
- Infrastructures.org A guide to deploying massive computer infrastructure in a reliable and robust way
- Free Software as Appropriate Technology and Development, Ethical Trading, and Free Software by Danny Yee
- The Right to Read -- a science-fiction-ish essay by Richard Stallman about trends in copyright law
- Comments on why New York State should adopt free software, free formats, and free standards by the authors of this site
- Letter from a Peruvian congressman to Microsoft about why the government should support free software and open data formats.
Bug Reporting and Feedback
- Reporting Problems As If You Want Them Fixed by Roy Tennant
- How to report bugs effectively by Simon Tatham
- How to ask questions the smart way by Eric Raymond
- Commits In Action -- RSS feeds covering a wide range of free software project development
Information Organization
- Cool URIs Don't Change by Tim Berners Lee
- Intelligent URL design by Steve Kemp
- Cool URIs for the Semantic Web from the W3C
- Best practices for CLI messages
- The Anti-Mac Interface -- moving beyond a WIMP GUI by Don Gentner and Jakob Nielsen
- In Search of FileMaker -- looking for a free replacement to a venerable proprietary tool -- the comments section contains a lot worth investigating.
- Choosing a name for your computer
- Word Processors -- stupid and inefficient -- an argument for structured markup instead of visual formatting
- Articles on IT and Communication by Jukka "Yucca" Korpela
- Use of NFS Considered Harmful by Shane Kerr
