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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 10:04:25 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   One of the algorithms I invented for my company is called GANDALF (its an acronym).. but for copyright reasons we decided to name our mascot "Gandalfo the off-white wizard".... someone asked me if he has magical powers, I said "Just one, the power to avoid copyright laws"

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 10:17:53 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • Ruru! 🦉

     @lonelyowl While alot of my tech is open source sadly this one is not. Otherwise id love it!

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     Ruru! 🦉 (lonelyowl@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 10:17:55 JST Ruru! 🦉

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     You should have named him GNUdalf 😀
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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 10:26:05 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @lonelyowl

     I have done a fuck ton of open source stuff, but only a small fraction directly makes me money.

     You can see the full list of my projects on my front page: https://JeffreyFreeman.me

     That said I've probably done as much work or more that is proprietary, probably more. I dont feel bad, I feel there should be a mix of both in the world.

     Even now as I am spinning up my new company (we recently got funding) I am trying to decide the balance between the two.

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     Ruru! 🦉 (lonelyowl@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 10:26:06 JST Ruru! 🦉

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     Most of the stuff i've written is non-free :<
     I've worked on a couple crappy android apps as a hired developer, and none of them are open source.
     Sometimes i feel bad about it, like i'm a subhuman dev who can't publish anything meaningful.
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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 10:37:26 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @lonelyowl

     It yused to. It isnt up right now because i have not had time to repair the database.

     In fact, I was the first one to implement groups on the fedi (and quite a few other features :))

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     Ruru! 🦉 (lonelyowl@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 10:37:28 JST Ruru! 🦉

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     That's really impressive list!
     
     ...
     Wait, does qoto have groups?
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     ampbenzscientist@qoto.org's status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 11:09:44 JST AmpBenzScientist

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     @freemo @lonelyowl The balance between the two is Military adoption or maybe convincing IBM that Microsoft will suffer.