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Co-Opting Open Source for Profit

This is a good review of the history of companies taking from open source and not giving back, Ploum has a good overview.  It's also a reminder of Meta getting involved in some sort of…

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Thirty Years of FreeBSD

On my long journey of computers with UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems, FreeBSD is the one constant over time. Today FreeBSD is celebrating 30 years. You can scroll through the 30 Year Timeline to get…

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OPNSense and One-to-One NAT

This is mostly a technical note to others struggling with One-to-One NAT on OPNsense. You want to setup public, routable IPs that map 1:1 to a private, non-routable IP. First, setup the Virtual IP on…

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F-Droid Board of Directors

I joined the F-Droid Board of Directors. There is an official press release on the site. I helped form and joined the Board because we need to promote free as a freedom software, open source…

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