Finding a Way to Get Paid to Improve LibreJS
So our plan is to cover more of RMS and secure communication tools, notably Quibble (Part I; Part II; Part III; Part IV), which is still work in progress (beta stage). We understand that the FSF will likely announce it later this year (we saw some drafts to that effect).
"Hey Y'all!" said one of the developers. "I just read Part 1 on TG of the new series — it was amazing, and I appreciate it all again :-)"
"This is a big update, so please bear with me!"
He said "[redacted] and I are currently devoting at least 20 paid hours a week to developing Quibble. Since my paid work involves JavaScript - an ecosystem that rarely values free software—I need to rely on LibreJS as a standard."
"After speaking with Dr. Stallman [RMS] and former GNU LibreJS developers, we all agree the project desperately needs a rewrite. The current text parsing engine relies on a few decade-old, abandoned dependencies and is incredibly hard to run fast and securely. The maintainers confirmed this week that LibreJS is totally unmaintained - and has been since 2022."
So now we have more people resurrecting LibreJS and improving it. To some, this even involves paid work. RMS has long said that finding ways to get paid to write Free software is a good thing. Writing such software isn't a matter of money but a matter of freedom, with salaries being a secondary factor. We'll say more at a later point. █
Image source: GNU LibreJS 6.0.9 showing the blocked elements on the English Wikipedia main page. Tracked in Phabricator Task T38866
