Notices by Joe Cooper 💾 (swelljoe@mas.to)

@foone the Perl codebase I work on, which is probably a couple hundred thousand lines of code, still has quite a few Perl 4-isms in it. Works fine on current Perl versions.

@foone what constitutes "distributing" a tattoo? Because that's where the license kicks in with GPL.

The abusive behavior that was being used to manipulate Lasse Collin into bringing on more maintainers for #xz went unnoticed because abusive behavior in Open Source communities is so pervasive. In context, we can clearly see it was part of an orchestrated operation. Out of context, it looks like just another asshole complaining about stuff they have no right to complain about. https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2024/03/30/a-microcosm-of-the-interactions-in-open-source-projects/

@u3b3rg33k @foone that was a good rule a couple decades ago, but PCL is widely supported in the OSS world and has been for many years.

@foone Printers: the root cause of the Free Software movement.