We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible

Your Weekly Newsletter [view in browser »]( Want to stay more up to date on all things open source? Follow us on [Twitter](. [Free Software]( We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible Doc Searls - May 8, 2019 If we take freedom and openness for granted, we'll lose both. That's already happening, and we need to fight back. The question is how. I am haunted by this passage in a letter we got from reader Alan E. Davis (the full text is in our Letters section): ...the real reason for this letter comes from my realization—in seeking online help—that the Linux Documentation Project is dead, and that the Linuxprinting.org project—now taken over by open printing, I think, is far from functioning well. Linux has been transformed into containers, and embedded systems. These and other such projects were the heart and soul of the Free Software movement, and I do not want for them to be gone! This is the kind of thing [Bradley Kuhn]( (of the [Software Freedom Conservancy]() lamented in [his talk]( at [Freenode.live]( last year. So did [Kyle Rankin]( in his talk at the same event ([video](, [slides]( and later, an LJ [article](). In [an earlier conversation]( on the same stage (it was a helluva show), [Simon Phipps]( (of the [Open Source Initiative]() and I had our own lamentations. [read article]( [DNA]( Open Source--It's in the Genes Glyn Moody - May 6, 2019 What happens when you release 500,000 human genomes as open source? This. [read article]( [Podcast]( Reality 2.0 - Episode 18: KidOYO Doc Searls talks to Zhen, Devon and Melora Lofretto of KidOYO and Doctor Michael Nagler, superintendent of the Mineola Public School system in Mineola Long Island. [Listen Now]( [Password Manager]( Password Manager Roundup Shawn Powers - May 3, 2019 If you can remember all of your passwords, they're not good passwords. [read article]( Subscribe to Linux Journal for only $2.88 an issue! [Subscribe Now »]( [Renew Now »]( in case you missed [May Cover] The Kernel Issue Bryan Lunduke - May 1, 2019 A look at the rich diversity of Linux distributions. [Read Article »]( [Abstract] Game Review: Guard Duty Marcel Gagné - May 2, 2019 Guard Duty from Sick Chicken Studios launches today! You can get it from [Steam]( for $9.99. [Read article »]( upcoming events [Percona Live]( May 28, 2019 - May 30, 2019 Austin, TX USA [Texas Linux Fest]( May 31, 2019 - June 1, 2019 Irving, TX USA [Women In Technology Summit]( June 09, 2019 - June 11, 2019 San Jose, CA USA [Private Internet Access]( [Storix]( You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive newsletters from Linux Journal. You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe]( from this list. Copyright © 2019 Linux Journal LLC, All rights reserved. Mailing address: 9597 Jones Rd, #331 Houston, TX 77065