I was looking at tusharhero's new codeberg blog
(tusharhero.codeberg.page) and was interested to read their take on
free-in-the-libre-sense software.

I thought I would cutely mention what I have come to know a little
about ex the lisp community. In particular I thought I would track
down a picture of a tshirt Hayley once showed me with the slogan,

SBCL: Harming the software industry since 1999

* I didn't find it, but I found the very interesting article
addressed at the end instead. To stay on the lisp theme, continue
here:

It was only later, talking to kent that I read some earlier writing by
kent which this tshirt was the other side of.

Kent pointed out that there are very many libre software developers
whom, upon hearing there is a closed-source software being sold, race
forth to recreate that software in libre form.

This is obviously good: This is my team after all.

Only, as Kent had pointed out at the time, this meant it was basically
becoming impossible to be paid to be a programmer in ways it had been
possible to do before, when libre software was relatively obscure. (I
think I remember not understanding explanations of shareware on bought
floppy sleeves).

Kent was also central in getting me into MOOing now.

While it's possible to chmod unset the others-readable bit on objects
  in lambdamoo, it's culturally not done. So looking interestedly at
  others' objects is the way to develop yourself in lambdamoo. Having
  a popular prototype object is a source of pride and joy for the
  programmers there.

  I guess scammy real-currency transactions never managed to take root
  in lambdamoo (fantasies about this were my least favourite part of
  My Tiny Life). And it costs nothing, basically, for someone to be
  allowed to make child objects of your own objects, fertility
  permissions rather indicating an object is presentable and suitable
  to be childed.

  So lambdamoo is a profoundly freeing reality, though it's not an
  enforced law or principle.

  *
  Hayley had an article about a failure of the newish peer production
  movement. I can only recommend you read her yourself.

  applied-langua.ge/posts/parastatal-problem.html

  Sorry for all the web links!