Zed Shaw
Person on 4 sites
Programmer, writer and musician; author of the Learn Code the Hard Way books and of Mongrel, the Ruby web server.
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3 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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15 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Large, wealthy companies use social manipulation and the guise of supporting open source to obtain free labor from developers. (opens korrents.com)
“Just like the Robber Barons before, these are fabulously wealthy companies that built their empires by (directly or indirectly) begging for free labor from open source developers.”
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Trillion-dollar companies often avoid paying for open source projects because they can acquire the labor for free. (opens korrents.com)
“They can get the project's labor for free, so why would they want to buy it?”
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The number of companies that use open source as a facade to solicit free labor will increase in the future. (opens korrents.com)
“I predict there will be many, many more in the future, because it's so lucrative and that's the era we live in now.”
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Large, wealthy companies use social manipulation and the guise of supporting open source to obtain free labor from developers. (opens korrents.com)
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10 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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REAPER (opens rcmnd.app)
“For post-production though I use REAPER which is seriously the best $60 bucks I ever spent. The REAPER forums alone are worth that much with all the advice they have.”
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Boomerang III Looper (opens rcmnd.app)
“That feeds into a Line 6 M5 for extra arbitrary effects. Those then feed into a Boomerang III Looper which is the most awesome looper ever.”
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G&L ASAT Classic S (opens rcmnd.app)
“My favorite guitar is a G&L ASAT Classic S, but it has single coil pickups so it's hard to record with it.”
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REAPER (opens rcmnd.app)