Politics and Free Software | Zwillingssterns Weltenwald

Being unpolitical
means being political
without realizing it.
— Arne Babenhauserheide

Here you’ll find texts about politics and free software. Some of my creative works on the topic can be found under Songs, though.

For me, Gentoo is about *convenient* choice
How to make a million dollars in pay-what-you-want — thoughts on the Humble Indie Bundle
Motivation and Reward
No, it ain’t “forever” (GNU Hurd code_swarm from 1991 to 2010)
Some technical advantages of the Hurd
(A)GPL as hack on a Python-powered copyright system
7,26€ through Flattr last month
A simple solution to the dining philosophers problem
Censorship in the Streets — it’s idiocy everywhere
def censor_the_net_2012()
Going from a simple Makefile to Autotools
How to make companies act ethically
identi.ca Group: Out of Group (!oog)
Internet, community cloud foo and control of my own data
Neither Humble nor Indie Bundle
Ogg Theora and h.264 - which video codec as standard for internet-video?
p2p-networks help law enforcement catch hard criminals
Patent law overrides copyright breaks ownership
Phoronix conclusions distort their results, shown with the example of GCC vs. LLVM/Clang On AMD's FX-8350 Vishera
pyRad - a wheel type command interface for KDE
Python for beginning programmers
Reducing the Python startup time
Screencast: Tabbing of everything in KDE
Shackle-Feats: The poisoned Apple
Simple positive trust scheme with threshholds
Simple steps to attach the GNU Public License (GPL) to your project
Some Python Programs of mine
Steve Jobs, Get Your Head out Of the Sand! - Broken Apple Heart
Tail Call Optimization (TCO), dependency, broken debug builds in C and C++ — and gcc 4.8
The danger of promoting dead closed clients
The dynamics of free culture and the danger of noncommercial clauses
The effect of the optional restrictions of the GPLv3
The generation of cultural freedom
The “Apple helps free software” myth
turn files with wikipedia syntax to html (simple python script using mediawiki api)
Weltenwald-theme under AGPL (Drupal)
Why free speech does not equal to the right of being heard
Why Gnutella scales quite well
wisp: Whitespace to Lisp: An indentation to brackets preprocessor to get more readable Lisp
Write programs you can still hack when you feel dumb
Your browser history can be sniffed with just 64 lines of Python (tested with Firefox 3.5.3)

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