Ian Sutter @iansutter@librem.one

@elementary I really hope that I can polish my software development skills for the next elementary release. Maybe I will come up with something useful enough to sell on AppCenter.

oh dear... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvIZELeo3cc

@elementary thanks for the cool operating system. I did have to make a few tweaks to get it working correctly with software that isn't in the elementary os ecosystem (such as installing the old appindicator wingpanel extension), however, the experience since then has been amazing.

Now I just wish I could come up with some ideas for some useful software to publish to the AppCenter. Any ideas?

for those on Elementary OS that miss being able to use tootle to use mastodon, here is a git repo of a tootle fork that fixes it: https://github.com/cleac/tootle

bleakgrey (the developer of tootle) appears to be working on a refactor of their version. I hope that it goes well for them.

Really liking this Elementary OS firefox theme: https://github.com/Zonnev/elementaryos-firefox-theme

I am really getting to like Elementary OS so far. I do wish that some software that I use was natively available as GTK-based software, however, with some tweaks to Elementary OS things are working just fine.

I usually don't support social causes, however, I like the sound of this one: https://u.fsf.org/upcycle

The Free Software Foundation is petitioning Microsoft to release Windows 7 as free software (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html for those who don't know what I mean by free software)

What are the best open source and free sofware oriented news websites to write for?

I am specifically looking for one that will accept researched logical analyses and argumentative philosophical articles that relate to open source and free software

Does anyone know of any examples of success stories where companies sold software licensed under the GPLv3?

I want to write an article about the potential practicality of selling GPL'd software.

I would like to reach out to companies regarding the success thaty have had with selling GPL'd software and incorporate those examples into the article I want to write.

@DaveCullen that is rather unfortunate. I used to enjoy watching doctor who. The doctor who stories used to be written so well that you could easily empathize with the characters (at least that is the case for me). Now it seems that the writing is just too awful to do that. There is no real point to me watching doctor who anymore and that makes me sad.