[Our lawsuit against ChessBase | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27896386)
[Our lawsuit against ChessBase - Stockfish - Open Source Chess Engine](https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2021/our-lawsuit-against-chessbase/)
- the endless legal fees to protect IP needs funding, which often comes from [NPOs]

[Congress should invest in open-source software | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789070)
[Why Congress should invest in open-source software | Brookings](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-congress-should-invest-in-open-source-software/)

[Paying people to work on open source is good | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39402101)
[Paying people to work on open source is good actually - Jacob Kaplan-Moss](https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/paying-maintainers-is-good/)

[German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928173)
[German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog](https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/04/german-state-moving-30000-pcs-to-libreoffice/)

[German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39936284)
[German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice | ZDNET](https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-state-ditches-microsoft-for-linux-and-libreoffice/)

[Producing Open Source Software](https://producingoss.com/)

[GitHub - nayafia/awesome-maintainers: Talks, blog posts, and interviews about the experience of being an open source maintainer](https://github.com/nayafia/awesome-maintainers)

[GitHub - nayafia/lemonade-stand: A handy guide to financial support for open source](https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand)

[LibreOps](https://libreops.cc/)
[Luigi Auriemma](https://aluigi.altervista.org/)
Open Source Tools

[Free Software Foundation: "Why GPL? "Using the GNU GPL wi…" - NAS](https://noauthority.social/@fsf@hostux.social/112203865519387881)

[What contributing to Open-source is, and what it isn't | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40177171)
[What contributing to Open-source is, and what it isn't | Such Dev Blog](https://suchdevblog.com/opinions/WhatOpenSourceIs.html)

[The Free JavaScript campaign — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software](https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/freejs/)

[Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming" | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40726974)
[dylanaraps (dylan)](https://github.com/dylanaraps)

[The wonderful world of tools made by small teams, solo-devs, and shareware (weird, beautiful, and experimental things to be creative in + an analysis on building for approachability)](http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/the-wonderful-world-of-tools-made-by-small-teams-solo-devs-and-shareware-weird-beautiful-and-experimental-things-to-be-creative-in-an-analysis-on-building-for-approachability)

[Mo Bitar](https://journal.standardnotes.org/surviving-in-open-source-47792a7c59dc)
Surviving Open-Source

[Free software hijacked Philip Hazel's life | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40736577)
[How free software hijacked Philip Hazel's life [LWN.net]](https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/978463/608c876c1153fd31/)

## how to open-source

[zalando/zalando-howto-open-source](https://github.com/zalando/zalando-howto-open-source)
How to Open Source at Zalando.
[Zalando's README Template](https://github.com/zalando/zalando-howto-open-source/blob/master/READMEtemplate.md)

## organizational code that was made FLOSS

[Symbian Source Code | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31491744)
[Symbian Source Code](https://github.com/SymbianSource)

[DreamWorks Animation to release MoonRay as open source | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32357470)
[DreamWorks Animation to Release MoonRay as Open Source | Animation World Network](https://www.awn.com/news/dreamworks-animation-release-moonray-open-source)

## floss security

[Asankhaya Sharma](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-can-you-ensure-your-open-source-components-secure-sharma/)
(2016) How can you ensure that your open source components are secure?

## floss architecture

[The Architecture of Open Source Applications](https://aosabook.org/en/index.html)
Useful resources of information, because most software developers only ever get to know a handful of large programs well—usually programs they wrote themselves—and never study the great programs of history. As a result, they repeat one another's mistakes rather than building on one another's successes.

[nic.funet.fi: Serving freely distributable files with FTP since 1990 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37015585)
[WWW.NIC.FUNET.FI](https://www.funet.fi/)
[Index of /](https://ftp.funet.fi/)

## floss fundraising

[jacobian: ""We believe that open source s…" - social.jacobian.org](https://social.jacobian.org/@jacob/111914179201102152)