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- 1Mitchell Hashimoto Proposes OSC 7501 Terminal Status Protocol●A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)
Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, has published a proposal for OSC 7501, a new terminal escape-sequence protocol that would let command-line programs report structured status information, such as progress and running tasks, to terminal emulators in a standardised way. The idea has drawn attention from developers interested in better tooling for long-running terminal programs and in standardising how software communicates with terminals.
- 2Alper Atmaca on free software challenges in Turkey●Alper Atmaca on challenges faced by free software movement in Turkey
Alper Atmaca has discussed the difficulties facing the free software movement in Turkey, in a conversation published by the Association for Progressive Communications. The discussion covers the obstacles activists and developers encounter while promoting free and open-source software in the country, including legal, economic and organisational pressures on the local community.