Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and the Web

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 08, 2025

• [Old] Angelino Desmet ☛ What if I paid for all my free software?

  I've always felt guilty by taking for granted the rare breed of virtuous humans that provide free excellent software without relying on advertising. Let's change that and pay, how much would I “lose” anyway?

• Web Browsers/Web Servers

  • Daniel Stenberg ☛ curl tells the %time

    Some users have right out started to use the -w output for logging of the performed transfer, and when you do that there was a little detail missing: the ability to output the time the transfer completed. After all, most log lines actually feature the time in one way or another.

    Starting in curl 8.16.0, curl -w knows the time and now allows the user to specify exactly how to output that time in the output. Suddenly this output is a whole notch better for logging purposes.

• Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra

  • Document Foundation ☛ Join the LibreOffice Team as a Paid Developer focusing on UI with initial emphasis on macOS, preferably full-time, remote (m/f/d)

    Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. We’re passionate about free software, the open source culture and about bringing new companies and people with fresh ideas into our community.

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

  • Manuel Moreale ☛ Sticking with it

    And I can’t really tell you why I find that approach appealing to me. Maybe because it spares me from constantly having to reconsider my choices. It’s probably the same reason why, for years, I was wearing the same set of clothes: when all you have are white t-shirts, you don’t have to waste time thinking about how to dress; you just get dressed.

• Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

  • C4ISRNET ☛ Space Force wargame could inform framework for allied info sharing

    Speaking Monday during a virtual Mitchell Institute event, Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt said this year’s wargame will include a forum for discussing sensitive capabilities with coalition partners, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

• Standards/Consortia

  • Hackaday ☛ VRML And The Dream Of Bringing 3D To The World Wide Web

    You don’t have to be a Snow Crash or Tron fan to be familiar with the 3D craze that characterized the rise of the Internet and the World Wide Web in particular. From phrases like ‘surfing the information highway’ to sectioning websites as if to represent 3D real-life equivalents or sorting them by virtual streets like Geocities did, there has always been a strong push to make the Internet a more three-dimensional experience.