The selfish-corner itself

Hi everyone, and hi no one. In this section of my blog you can find programs or patches that I made based on other programs, either way, because my patches were never accepted or because I just wanted to selfishly modify a program in such a way that is more suitable for my needs, however, there may be a chance that these patches or programs could be useful for you.

Free software, free software! I am making this thanks to the Free Software movement and ideology, in this society where all things (even us!) are shaped by algorithms, alas proprietary software, the only hope is free software, we can express ourselves making or modifying programs to satisfy our needs, and incidentally help or satisfy the needs of other people.

It sounds wrong, right? selfishness, that thing that could be diagnose as a pathological behavior, however, I am talking more about a existential/metaphysical selfishness, the rejection of the other, which could be worse on a pathological level; but not this case, I am talking about the rejection of that other, the one (legal entity or natural person) that does not make free software. But wait… modifying other people programs is not the rejection of the other? that other that makes free software? Well… yes, but no. Let me explain. We are, indeed, rejecting the work of others, seeing "work" as a transformative activity , but we are also learning and embracing the other through his work, since this so-called "transformative activity" is the effect of the intellectual (which is the material that is going to be transformed), and the intellectual is biased and has a lot of psychological stuff going on, therefore we are embracing that other, that thing that is a reflection of the mind. It may sound too optimistic, I am implying that there is a anthropological facet in software. I.e. I am rejecting the work per se, but no the underlying meaning of the program or the developer intents, except if the program is a proprietary program, ergo, the proprietary developer (But I do care about your free software persona, the "you" who makes free programs on your free time!).

The patches modify a program in such a way the program may misbehave. I do not use all the features in these program, hence I will not notice how much of the program breaks after applying any patch. Please let me know or try to fix it yourself, if so tell me, I could provide some help if I still remember how an existing codebase works.

• GNU screen
• Ratpoison
• Gnu global