The Free and Open Source Software Movement The notion of free and open source software on its face is that the code base of the software is available for all eyes to see (open source) and that the user has a high degree of flexibility in controlling said software (free as in freedom). This concept has served for the locus of a full on free software movement whose primary focus is to promote the proliferation and usage of free and open source software.

The Case for the Wayland Desktop Wayland is a display server protocol that serves as a replacement for the now 36 year old X windowing system that originally was used for drawing windows on UNIX operating systems. Its various implementations have evolved throughout the years with the current implementation being that of Xorg server. X’s age and sclerotic development has made the case stronger than ever for Wayland. It is far newer (initial release was 12 years ago) and it fixes a lot of the long standing architectural issues that plague X.

Call to Change The United States and its respective states is one of the only democracies in the world other than the UK and Canada to use plurality or FPTP (first past the post) voting. I wrote on proportional voting in a white paper earlier this year. It solves the issue of legislatures whose compositions don’t closely mirror the vote share for each party and encourages more political parties among other positive ramifications.