You are not entitled to the attention of others. You are not entitled to having value attached to your complaints. You are not entitled to this explanation. - Open Source is Not About You

The point of open source is not to ritualistically compile our stuff from source. It’s the awareness that technology is not magic: that there is a trail of breadcrumbs any of us could follow to liberate our digital lives in case of a potential hostage situation. Should we so desire, open source empowers us to create and run our own essential tools and services. - On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services - HN

• Lessons from open source in the Mexican government / HN - large proprietary software companies ““are big bullies”“… government also used software and services from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Various companies use the US government to bully other countries, but they also use license audits as a reaction to projects that move to open-source software.