Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 22, 2025

• The virtuous open source cycle: model description

  This article introduces a simple, repeatable model to track how companies can contribute to open source projects and realize benefits in return

• Web Browsers/Web Servers

  • Mozilla

    • Mozilla ☛ Mozilla Addons Blog: Now you can roll back to a previous version of your extension

      In response to feedback we’ve heard from the community, AMO (addons.mozilla.org) just introduced a new feature allowing developers the ability to quickly roll back to a previously approved extension version. The most common need for roll-back ability are occasions when developers may release a new version they later discover has critical bugs. Now in such cases, instead of needing to make fast fixes and quickly submit an even newer version, which could be further delayed during a review process, developers are free to revert back to a previously approved version.

• SaaS/Back End/Databases

  • PostgreSQL ☛ Navicat On-Prem Server 3 Released: Now Support PostgreSQL Management

    Navicat is thrilled to announce the release of Navicat On-Prem Server 3, now offering comprehensive support for PostgreSQL management. This new version allows you to maintain complete control over your data while empowering your team with seamless management of PostgreSQL.

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• Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)

  • Leon Mika ☛ New Theme, Who's Dis

    Before completely abandoning Tiny Theme, I’d thought to record some screenshots, as recommended by more experienced bloggers whenever they do a theme refresh. So here’s a gallery of what lmika.org looked before I made the switch — complete with it’s “summer” colour scheme that I neglect to updated when autumn came around (if I kept it for two more months, it would’ve been relevant again): [...]

• FSF

  • FSF ☛ FSF News: Job opportunity: Program Manager at the Free Software Foundation

    The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced a job opportunity for a motivated and talented program manager.

• Licensing / Legal

  • Kyle E Mitchell ☛ A Legal Rule That Makes Writing Worse

    This being law—and life—there are, of course, exceptions. Some legal principles do encourage legal writing to be bad writing. To reduce legalese among lawyers, or to secure better handling of terms written without them, we have to get specific about those standards.

    I’m tackling one, my prime culprit, today: the rule to read legal writing consistently.

  • Celebrations with the GPL

    This post is to celebrate a few things despite the events that are clouding our feelings. 😠
    
    Another thing to not celebrate is the slaughtering by Sourceforge of my developer web site, which they are calling "sunsetting", by October. I've already migrated it. 
    

    On the other, brighter hand, I'm celebrating this week La Mercè, which is the local festivity of Barcelona.