New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Which ideological software factions do you know of, and do you like any?
Ask HN: Which ideological software factions do you know of, and do you like any?
3 by unix_hacker | 4 comments on Hacker News.
What I specifically mean is a programming community with values that transcend the projects that they maintain. In some cases, these values precede the projects themselves, and the projects are merely a tool for advancing the values. I use "faction" instead of a "community" because there is an ideological bent to them. It's not merely a community that manages a couple of helpful open source projects. Here are the ones that I know of: 1. GNU: it advocates for an OS that is libre, and can be studied and modified and shared by anyone. It has idiosyncratic attributes, like the use of Lisp as an extension language. 2. OpenBSD: unlike the FreeBSD community which is largely about FreeBSD, OpenBSD has several different projects that share a core ethos of security and correctness. Some of these projects (like Game of Trees) aren't even officially slated to be part of the OpenBSD distribution. Others (like OpenSSH) are more popular than OpenBSD itself. 3. Suckless.org: it advocates simple, clear, frugal, and elitist software for *nix users. (No really, the website mentions "elitist" on the page for DWM) 4. Cat-v.org continues to advance the Bell Labs vision of a second network-centric iteration of Unix with its 9front distribution and other projects. 5. Smalltalk advocates for programming environments that are discoverable and educational, and various projects like Pharo and The Glamorous Toolkit advance this mission in a variety of ways, sometimes less ideologically strict. Curious to ask HN what other ideological software factions can they mention? And what do you think of the various factions? Do you identify with any?
3 by unix_hacker | 4 comments on Hacker News.
What I specifically mean is a programming community with values that transcend the projects that they maintain. In some cases, these values precede the projects themselves, and the projects are merely a tool for advancing the values. I use "faction" instead of a "community" because there is an ideological bent to them. It's not merely a community that manages a couple of helpful open source projects. Here are the ones that I know of: 1. GNU: it advocates for an OS that is libre, and can be studied and modified and shared by anyone. It has idiosyncratic attributes, like the use of Lisp as an extension language. 2. OpenBSD: unlike the FreeBSD community which is largely about FreeBSD, OpenBSD has several different projects that share a core ethos of security and correctness. Some of these projects (like Game of Trees) aren't even officially slated to be part of the OpenBSD distribution. Others (like OpenSSH) are more popular than OpenBSD itself. 3. Suckless.org: it advocates simple, clear, frugal, and elitist software for *nix users. (No really, the website mentions "elitist" on the page for DWM) 4. Cat-v.org continues to advance the Bell Labs vision of a second network-centric iteration of Unix with its 9front distribution and other projects. 5. Smalltalk advocates for programming environments that are discoverable and educational, and various projects like Pharo and The Glamorous Toolkit advance this mission in a variety of ways, sometimes less ideologically strict. Curious to ask HN what other ideological software factions can they mention? And what do you think of the various factions? Do you identify with any?
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