Firefly-III for Personal Finances

The guys light up talking about Firefly-III, and then take a deep dive into the four freedoms.

Intro

Frontman

Frontman is a static site generator written in Ruby, optimized for speed. It helps you convert your content to static HTML files, so you can focus on your content instead of maintaining servers.

Memberful is Everywhere, or how Andrew might be suffering from the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon

News / Community Updates

OurCompose Developments

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Integration Discussion - Firefly-III

Grab Bag - Free as in…

Putting the ‘F’ in FLOSS

Why Freedom?

Because of the reasons for Voluntaryism:

• Self-Ownership
• Non-Aggression

The Ambiguity of Free

• Libre
• Gratis

Richard Stallman’s Four Freedoms

• The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
• The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
• The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
• The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

Stewart Brand’s Information Wants to be Free

On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

Free Software vs Open Source

For the “free software” camp, though, “open source” doesn’t fully convey the importance of the movement and the potential long-term social problems caused by proprietary software.

OurCompose Retires Manager

Manager is not open source software. Just because the desktop edition is free does not make the software open source.

• Remove Manager from Compositional Role
• Remove Manager from Playbooks and Scripts

Coming soon… Akaunting

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