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Jim Hall: Transitions in an open source software project
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| And that was it. I missed being involved in
| the project, but I wasn't concerned about its
| future; I had handed over the keys to others,
| and built up an active community of user-
| developers.
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| They say the final responsibility of an open
| source software maintainer is to hand off the
| project to someone else. It's a hard step,
| that final transition. But it's important for
| the project to survive on its own. And more
| importantly, it's possible.
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http://scienceblogs.com/collectiveimagination/2009/11/jim_hall_transitions_in_an_ope.php?utm_source=networkbanner&utm_medium=link
JOURNAL: Are Hackers Essential to Resilience?
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| In almost every resilience scenario I can
| imagine, there seems to be an intense need for
| people that can fix, repurpose, replicate, or
| build from scratch machines, systems, and
| tools. Essentially, hackers. They are needed
| in roles from maintenance of existing social
| activity to externally focused trade to local
| defense/offense. The implication is that if
| you don't have people in your community,
| group, gang, or tribe that can do this, you
| only have two options: either a bare bones
| existence (hardscrabble) or a predatory one.
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http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/11/journal-are-hackers-essential-to-resilience.html
Recent:
EFF Warns Texas Instruments to Stop Harassing Calculator Hobbyists
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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warned
| Texas Instruments (TI) today not to pursue its
| baseless legal threats against calculator
| hobbyists who blogged about potential
| modifications to the company's programmable
| graphing calculators.
|
| TI's calculators perform a "signature check"
| that allows only approved operating systems to
| be loaded onto the hardware. But researchers
| were able to reverse-engineer signing keys,
| allowing tinkers to install custom operating
| systems and unlock new functionality in the
| calculators' hardware. In response to this
| discovery, TI unleashed a torrent of demand
| letters claiming that the anti-circumvention
| provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright
| Act (DMCA) required the hobbyists to take down
| commentary about and links to the keys. EFF
| represents three men who received such letters.
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http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/10/13
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