Reading the article and I wonder what Internet Archive thought when they turned themselves into a Pirate Bay but for ebooks. They had this lawsuit coming and they have obviously no idea how to defend themselves in this case.
They should stick to archiving the web instead of shooting themselves in the foot.
I've been saying this for years, this was an incredibly boneheaded move by the Internet Archive and they just keep on doubling down on it. They shouldn't have done it in the first place. When they got sued, they should have immediately admitted they screwed up and settled - the publishers would probably have been fine with a token punishment and a promise to shut down their ebook library, it's not like IA cost them anything significant. But they just keep on fighting, and it's only making things worse.
This isn't even IA's purpose in the first place! They archive the Internet. They're like a guy who's caring for a precious baby who decides he should go poke a bear with a stick, and when the bear didn't respond at first he whacked it over the nose with the stick instead. Now the bear's got his leg and he's screaming "oh no, protect my baby!" And it's entirely his fault the baby's in danger.
How do rambling blog articles full of terrible assumptions and analysis like this get posted? Is there an alternative technology community I could sub to that cares about quality content?
The Linux Foundation is a 509(a)(3) support organization.
In other words, they provide legal and financial infrastructure to smaller open source projects that aren’t big enough to justify their own foundation.
Edit: The first line says it’s not satire, but poking around the site there is definitely some satire articles on there, so I think this is probably malicious satire.
Satire or not, it does raise a few points that seem valid. Particularly that “She does not seem to have any experience with GNOME or Linux. In fact… she does not seem to have any experience related to software. At all. In any way.”
Based on the official blog it looks more like GNOME hired her as “an experienced communicator and fundraiser”. So maybe they don’t care whether she even owns a computer as long as she can raise money and woo investors?
What this basically means is that nobody that works for GNOME is presentable to the public and they need SOMEONE that's showered in the past nine months to go out and raise money. ANYONE.
Or it means that the project is growing and they need to act like a fucking business and not a loose-knit association of nerdasses with zero actual business skills.
You know... the reason every fucking tech company has a CEO.
Another user did some digging too and pointed out that the archive was the only one and was made on the day before the article, so the shaman website seems to have been created specifically for that article beehaw.org/comment/1430242
Developers don’t necessarily make the best fundraisers, auditors, accountants, human resource managers, legal advisors, or any of a hundred other disciplines involved in running a large organisation.
This particular person seems to have extensive experience managing large non-profits and membership organisations; which is exactly what the GNOME Foundation is. There’s no expectation that everyone on the board of directors will know how to cut code…
So you want software developers to spend less time building the software so they can run a nonprofit too? Do you think all the conferences, sites, fundraising, marketing, extensive help docs, bug processing, and community engagement is all something that can just be done on the side?
Just ask any software dev working st any of these foundations. They don’t want to do any of the business-side work. Or, if they do, they certainly don’t want to do it alone. If they were alone in it, they wouldn’t have time to write code.
Without those things open source would slowly die. All of those are about getting more users for products, getting funding to make them happen, but more importantly, inspiring the next group of contributors.
Open source doesn’t just appear out of thin air. It costs money and time. People need to care about it.
Without users, a project is just a hobby and unlikely to persist long term. Without funding, contributors are forced to abandon for jobs to out food on the table. Without the next group of contributors to pass the torch onto, projects die.
I am not aware of an article summarizing his greatest hits. Principally, he’s a person who talks a lot and likes some mild conspiratorial thinking. From what I gather, he’s also a liability for anyone who ever employed him in their marketing department, because he’s only interested in furthering his own brand. He does make a lot of videos these days, so I guess you can decide for yourself if you like him and his style. :)
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