And what’s the message when the spokesperson of an organisation is not helping the organisation anymore because he alienates people participating, deterring newcomers and keeping others from participating is reinstated in the org’s board?
Free Software is there and can live on without the FSF. That has been the whole point of this exercise.
And if they welcome back RMS I don’t think things will change for the better. Good riddance to a stale and aged organisation then.
And no, I don’t think a better logo, fancy videos or a social media person will remedy this. That’s just covering up the rust with paint.
undeadly.org is the obvious place
I am using an extended and more modern version available from https://github.com/deadpixi/sam/ which comes with several extensions such as configurable key bindings and a somewhat modernized code base / protocol
It has a simple yet powerful command language that let’s you do all kinds of neat tricks. There’s an older plan 9 paper http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/ and a tutorial for its language here http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/sam_lang_tutorial/sam_tut.pdf.
If you like interactive fiction there is a lot of work out there that’s freely available and runs in free implementations of their parser engines.
For example: Anchorhead a Lovecraftian text adventure
Thank you! I took this opportunity to update the channel rules.