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While I was beginning to starve tonight, I noticed I had no idea what I'd cook. I was getting a bit fed up of noodles, and didn't eat vegetables for a while. I can already hear you saying (actually, I can't, unless I'm hooked to your micro, but that's very unlikely, isn't it?) “Hey wait, vegetables are dull”... No, they're not! Not when you cook them properly, and it kind of accidentally happened to me just about an hour and a half ago.

You may also be wondering what the hell a kesäkurpitsapaistos can be. Well, it's the Finnish name of gratin de courgettes. My Finnish friend Pasi took some time to find out what a courgette is, and he blamed me for not telling him in Finnish (well, now at least I know a word of that weird wonderful language).

So, shall we now get into the technical details?

As a Free Software developer, there is of course one thing that i cherish very much: Freedom.

Not only Freedom in software, but also Freedom of individuals in a society. Freedom is often used by politicians to justify abuses made to other people: unjust wars in the name of freedom of a country, disastrous economical decisions in the name of the freedom of so-called entrepreneurs – I prefer the term parasites (if this shocks you, I am truly not sorry – I am not afraid to state that there are much more efficient systems than those in which we let a minority of spoilt children ruin thousands of workers' lives just for their personal profit).

Freedom is also often flouted by totalitarian regimes – whether they assume their totalitarianism or not. There are perfectly valid and worrisome examples of this right now in France. But people do not seem to care that much, here and elsewhere, about their Freedoms. Nor do they care about the world which they live in. I'll probably, some day, write about that, and the limits of Democracy when you're surrounded by selfish idiots. But it's not today's subject.

Today, I'm going to talk about my involvement in some particular FOSS projects – and how I think my freedom to contribute to and use these projects has been restricted, in a way that I can not accept anymore.