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Thank you. Very kind of you to say so.

Sure, it happens. Especially if somebody is already well known and respected in their field. But it is not common, and I find it frustrating how many people think they can fast-tra…

Stallman can give a talk about "how to invent free software and build a movement around it" because Stallman has invented free software and built a movement around it. For Stallman…

No, it's about perspective - I know that 'cos I wrote the article, but perhaps it didn't come across very clearly! Here's the specific problem that advice is intended to remedy, wh…

I had no idea. Thanks for spotting this; I've flipped the site over to use CloudFlare Full/strict TLS; if that doesn't work I can turn off CloudFlare proxying completely.

Not yet... ;)

Hello. Dylan here. This is all my fault. :) The song that I think would compile with the fewest changes to the language spec is Scorpions' "Rock You Like A Hurricane". I don't thin…

One of the reasons we're keen to do this - or at least to try it! - is that both the industry and Microsoft have changed enormously in the last ten years. There's a much richer ran…

There's a group of us specifically talking about running another big alt.net 'unconference' here in the UK, but we're also keen to rekindle wider interest in the whole open source …