Protest against software patents

Software

Their rumpled clothes, their unwashed and unshaven faces, and their uncombed hair all testify that they are oblivious to their bodies and to the world in which they move. These are computer bums, compulsive programmers. — Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976

Current software

CPC, a concurrent dialect of C.

Hekate, a BitTorrent seeder written in CPC.

Babel, a routing protocol designed for ad-hoc mobile networks but also suitable for wired networks.

AHCP, the Ad-Hoc Configuration Protocol, a protocol designed to replace Router Discovery and DHCPv6 on ad-hoc networks.

Polipo, a caching web proxy.

Random BitTorrent work.

Stochastic Fair Blue for the Linux kernel, an implementation of an active queue management algorithm.

Cedilla, a best-effort text printer.

CL-Yacc, a LALR(1) parser generator for Common Lisp.

Pluto, a paranormal Unicode converter. Legacy support for Unicode terminals based on metaphysical principles.

vc-darcs.el, Darcs support for Emacs.

Juppix, un LiveCD GNU/Linux basé sur Knoppix prévu pour les étudiants de premier cycle d'Informatique à l'Université de Paris 7 (avec Sylvain Lebresne).

Other stuff

Wifi.pps.jussieu.fr, an experimental mesh network.

Obsolete software

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins — Ellen Ullman

The XFree86 FreeType module (formerly xfsft). Merged into XFree86 and X.Org, and hence obsoleted by the XFree86 fonts documentation.

Ogonkify. Hopefully obsolete.

Luit, locale and ISO 2022 support for Unicode terminals. Obsoleted by the version included in XFree86.

A DPS extension for XFree86. Obsolete.

Documentation

Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem — Richard Feynman

How to get IPv6 connectivity under Linux.

Validating a PGP key without personal contact.

Information about the UTF8_STRING atom.

Choosing a font format.

A couple of notes about Keith Packard's Tiny X KDrive server.

A couple of notes about using Linux on the Compaq Presario 700 series.

X.Org and XFree86 bitmap fonts.

An introduction to X server programming.

Download

Open Source Communism

After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless. — Geoffrey James

My download area.

My darcs repositories.

PGP key

Please see my homepage.

Unrelated other stuff...

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