Scott Nesbitt

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I'm a long-time user of free/open source software, and write various things for both fun and profit. I don't take myself all that seriously and I do all of my own stunts.

You can find me at these fine establishments on the web: Open Source Musings, The Monday Kickoff, Weekly Musings. and The Plain Text Project.

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Authored Content

The new Raspberry Pi 2, boost for Cyanogen, US budget data on GitHub, and more

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Microsoft's investment in Cyanogen, U.S. government budget data on GitHub, the debut of the Raspberry…

Linus Torvalds on security, AI tools by Facebook, and more

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at open data not being so open, Facebook releasing more of its tools as open source, and more! Open…

Going open source on Android with F-Droid

Android. It can be a divisive word in the free and open source software world. Some embrace it, others shun it. Some still use open versions of Android like Cyanogenmod and…

Create a daily reading list with calibre

Many people complain about being able to keep up with all the information that they need to—or think they need to. While for me information overload is impossible, I…

Open source at the Consumer Electronics Show, blocked websites in India, and more

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look to websites blocked in India, the debut of open source-powered devices at the Consumer Electronics Show…

5 open source projects to join in 2015

You've been using open source software for a while, and now you want to give back to the community. Even with solid advice, you're probably finding that it's difficult to sift…

Authored Comments

ScottNesbitt

28 Feb 2019

Why CLAs aren't good for open source

Maybe you should consider pitching an expanded version of this comment to the editorial team as a rebuttal article. Being a comment doesn't quite do what you wrote justice. Just a thought ...

ScottNesbitt

22 Feb 2019

Two graphical tools for manipulating PDFs on the Linux desktop

I've used PDFsam in the past, but drifted away from it. And now only the basic version is open source. PDFedit was a good Acrobat-like tool, too. But it hasn't been updated since 2010.