The Open Road to Freedom #1
Introducing a weekly strip to communicate the goodness of open-source ecosystems and more.
January 21, 2025
A comic strip about communities, software and companies
Introducing a weekly strip to communicate the goodness of open-source ecosystems and more.
Umbrella organizations, and financial stewards for your project.
Resolving apparently irreconcileable differences: “show me the road”.
Why Dammit did it: building open-roads. In the land of software, strange things happen; e.g. it was rumoured that the cost of auxiliary Windows PCs
The excitement of setting up your own non-profit structure.
A topic that plagues engineers: having a wonderful product or service is futile without a proper marketing & sales process.
The somewhat perverse way that those who do the most work are often blamed for not having done more.
Why what everyone really wants is a support and maintenance subscription.
The difficulty of getting audience-sensitive content: conferences & communication.
Different approaches to politics, which is what happens when two people meet.
Different approaches to politics: protection and counsel.
Why doing something now generally beats doing something wonderful later.
Inspired by just one of Northcote Parkinson’s insights in his epic management book: Bike Shedding.
The problem of what public statements to make as a community.
