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Introducing the Open Source Maintenance Fee

Today I'm launching an idea three years in the making. The Open Source Maintenance Fee tackles the sustainablity problem by charging a small fee for use of an Open Source Project. What? Why? How? All answered in more detail below.

Lego Starwars Present carried in the snow

Forty Eight

I didn't know it but the last couple of years have been buliding up to this point. Today is my birthday, so it is time to review last year and because if the next few days go well, the rest of this year will not be the same.

The first WiX Toolset ckae

Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset

I posted the bulk of my reflections on the WiX Toolset's 20th Anniversary on the FireGiant blog. I just have a couple tidbits to include here.

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What could be done to support Open Source maintainers?

It's a cliche to talk about the importance of relationships in business. Now businesses need to think about their relationship with Open Source projects and the maintainers that care for them.

Deployment Dojo

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Debugging the Dojo
S1:E48
Debugging the Dojo
BindPaths in MSBuild in WiX v4
S1:E45
Finding Files using WiX v4
S1:E44
Configuration for the IT Crowd
S1:E33
Taking a Shortcut using WiX v4
S1:E22
What's a WXL?
S1:E15
What's a WXL?
The Path from WiX v3 to WiX v4
S1:E10
Let's Install Something Real
S1:E9
Refining WiX v4 Kata 0
S1:E2
Refining WiX v4 Kata 0