Everything Has To End

Dear IT Conservative readers,

My name is Zef Hemel. For the past (almost) half year I have been writing IT Conservative. I enjoyed the writing and the nice comments and many e-mails I received. You have no idea how wonderful it is to have people write hostile e-mails and blogposts about/to a persona that you invented yourself.

I started IT Conservative as a challenge to myself. There is so much pro-free software propaganda around, I wondered if I could invent a persona that counters all the free software and anti-DRM beliefs, without making it sound too much of a joke. I think that from time to time, IT Conversative's partly faulty reasoning actually seemed plausible.

As much as I enjoyed writing IT Conservative, it also takes time. I started in a Ph.D. student position last September and since then found less and less time to write it. So rather than let it bleed to death (which was in the progress of happening already), I decided to end it properly.

Those who not know me might wonder who I am, and if in fact I have the beliefs IT Conservative has. I can say that mostly I do not, or not to his extreme extent. I use Linux full-time for my work. I haven't used Windows for many years. In that sense I'm very different. I am also very pro-open source. I do belief in the practical advantages of open source software. I do, however, not believe in the political agenda that many Free Software people are pushing. To be honest, IT Conservative was a great opportunity to express these feelings, albeit in an extreme way.

It has been a nice couple of months. Thank you for your reading and many responses. I hope you enjoyed it and I didn't offend you too much.

Thanks and have a great Christmas and a healthy new year,

Zef Hemel

PS: If you want to read about what I do in real life. I have another blog.