So the big free software news of the week is that Amazon is forking Elasticsearch after Elastic relicensed Elasticsearch under the SSPL. The internet's in a frenzy about this, as tends to happen these days whenever a large previously free software project goes proprietary. I'm disappointed that the free software world has partly lost yet another useful piece of software, and glad that the project will at least live on in some form as free software, even if not from Elastic.
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You can't tell people anything: On the difficulty of really conveying something to someone without hands-on experience. I've experienced this from the teacher's side recently when trying to explain Kubernetes concepts to someone who only has experience administering individual, mutable machines. I think I've also recently experienced it from the student's perspective trying to absorb some of the object capability literature. Trying to get some hands-on experience there to avoid that!Free software is not enough: on practical user freedom
June 19, 2020
Every so often, I'll have a discussion with a non-free-software person that ends up here: