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There are few people who would deny that Autoconf, Automake and Libtool have revolutionized the free software world. While there are many thousands of Autotools advocates, some developers absolutely hate the Autotools, with a passion. Why? Let me try to explain with an analogy.

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How to love Free Software in 3 steps: configure, make, make install

Mitch Meyran
2008-03-08
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I recently re-read the article how to hate free software in 3 easy steps by Steven Goodwin. I’m no programmer, but then I’ve also installed a few distributions myself. And frankly, I have trouble relating to that post.

Several points were made in the article’s comments, some being that non-programmers don’t compile from source anyway, compiling from source requires you to be a programmer, and other operating systems don’t crash when you tinker with their partitions.

Excuse me?

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Making Gnash: a well-deserved name?

Mitch Meyran
2007-07-02
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Gnash is the Free Software Foundation’s alternative Adobe Flash player. Version 0.8 is the third alpha release, and frankly, it rocks! It is also one of the first projects to be covered by the GPLv3.