Ireland: Since the Guardian are doing the "a handful of women’s groups have started to question the “unintended consequences”" thing of Self Determination and the Irish GRA 2015, time to repost the open letter from Irish feminists telling UK transphobes to piss off ...
I would like to propose SOSS: Sponsored Open Source Software.
If your company uses OSS, you sponsor the project $100/year.
Not per seat, or per team, just $100/year, all in.
- 30 developers using Ghostty? $100
- 300,000 engineers using tmux? $100, total
You audit the OSS you use (OSS tools for this would quickly emerge, $100, thank you). You set up a bunch of annual $100 sponsorships. Everyone wins.
This guarantees the longevity of that tiny piece of code propping up your bank.
It’s publication day for my short story collection, The Analog Cat! ⌚🐈
If you enjoy the kind of whimsical nonsense I post to social media, my fiction is pretty much the same thing but longer and with a plot.
Paperback:
https://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=1327
https://mybook.to/analog-cat
weirdo free/libre open source software person, member of the KDE community since forever, who loves squeaky, slinky and fuzzy things - they/them