Frequently enough, I see people forwarding messages to mailing lists that were intended to get to the ML in the first place, but didn’t happen due to some configuration issue or whatever.  There are people that think this is fine, this is workable, and it is correct.  I happen to disagree, but discussing this in the context of [...]

Of the many controversies in free software, this is one that I have long found to be interesting.  People seem to define things in different ways, which leads to confusion (and arguing) when one person calls a system a "GNU/Linux" system and the next calls it just the "Linux" system.  Too often, I have found people saying "You [...]

Richard Stallman. That’s right.  Now, there are many things that the man has done that have been effective, and the man has worked hard to ensure that we have freedom in the vast world of software.  But recently, he has stated that Miguel de Icaza “is basically a traitor to the free software community,” and [...]

AllTray is a rather small project—for the moment, there is a single developer working on it (myself), and there aren’t a terribly great number of users, though the users that it does have are most excellent.  For a long time, the users didn’t have the ability to observe the development processes for AllTray, nor did [...]

In 40+ years of computing, there is bound to be software and tools that people are simply not aware of, or have forgotten about, or have moved from the forefront to behind the scenes—there are actually lots of these.  One of the reasons that I watch Freshmeat for software releases is to constantly look for things [...]

Windows 7 Sins.  It is the name of a campaign and Web site launched by the Free Software Foundation in a misguided (IMHO) attempt to publicize some of the issues in software choice.  Right from the start and without reading a word on the Web site, it says two things very strongly: Windows 7 commits [...]

The new server is now in. The whole trausch.us domain is now running from it, aside from one service (my email MX backup for my desktop machine). And even better, it’s being run in a Linux Container.  The server now has the ability to (very efficiently) stand in for at least 10 servers, nicely and [...]

I’ve been busy busy busy, and I hadn’t even realized that it’s been a whole month since I’ve posted.  Oops.  I guess for most of the things that I write, Twitter/identi.ca really are where I’m at.  Oh, well. I have missed the August 1st goal for releasing AllTray 0.7.4dev, mostly because I am trying to [...]

Yeah, alright.  Those are words I would never have thought I’d see in a title in a blog post, “thanks to Microsoft.”  But, it is true.  Microsoft is adding C# and the CLI to the list of technologies that it promises it will not sue for.  This is Microsoft’s “Community Promise”, which means that to [...]

Since 1996, when I was introduced to the concept of free software and the GNU/Linux operating system (in the form of Slackware), I started to take a look around and found myself amazed at what was the free software community then. Watching it build massively amazing pieces of software that are second to none in [...]