This took a *long* time to get to me. It was hanging out at MIT during Covid and finally someone mailed it to me this year as the lab was being closed up.
It was a fun project to work on, though I wasn't critical. Best I can say is; "I hope I helped" 😅 But I'm also chuffed to bits to have it.
You would need a functioning government to do that.
I've long considered the GPL to be makeshift law for a space ceded by traditional governments and volunteers to be make shift government infrastructure provision.
In the ideal, we'd have done all of this through a well functioning Democratic process; alas that is not the age we live in.
#foss doesn't just show you how the sausage is made, it recruits you into making them.
Everyone gets to work in the sausage factory, this is not a guided tour, this is participatory community and your help is critical to making thing happen. If you've ever stood around wondering why feature or bug didn't change in a decade, this is why.
(You might think that's unfair or too demanding, but better making sausages than *being* a proprietary sausage 😉)
They are laundering intent, washing away the wishes of users and spending money while disconnecting and disempowering the people who should be at the heart of free software. People.
There's this idea for #inkscape UX that I can't stop thinking about. The suggestion is... using the caps lock.
So the suggestion was that some of the difficulty we have we sharing modifier keys could be alleviated if *some* of the functionality was a mode of the caps lock that when on would change the behaviour of some transformation and moving processes.
It sounds like both a terrible idea and a really interesting idea at the same time and I'm torn.
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