"I want to talk about three examples I see of cracks that are starting to form which signal big challenges in the future of OSS." I had a knee-jerk initial reaction to this post - what open source bub
Funding for free and open source software (FOSS) initiatives under the EU's Horizon program has mostly vanished from next year's proposal, claim advocates who are worried for the future of many ongoin
31 Dec 2022 - Thomas Depierre For the past few years, we have seen a lot of discussions around the concept of the Software Supply Chain. These discussions started around the time of LeftPad and escala
Users of popular open-source libraries 'colors' and 'faker' were left stunned after they saw their applications, using these libraries, printing gibberish data and breaking. Some surmised if the NPM l
Upstream vs. origin. There are lots of things that are scary or intimidating about contributing to open source. One of my goals for this year is to be less afraid and utilize open source to increase m
The superficial promise of open source is that if you publish your code, others will make it better. Strictly speaking, that’s not the case. To reap the benefits of open source, maintainers must seek
Contributor license agreements (or CLAs for short) have gained a lot of visibility in recent years as some prominent open source projects have opted to adopt them. If all the cool kids are doing it, s
Welcome to the SFOSC Documentation pages Welcome! This is a place dedicated to the discussion, creation, and evolution of Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities. We are organized around the deve
Keynote on the topic of open source, markets, debts, purpose, and no less than the meaning of life. Delivered at RailsConf 2019. Also available as a long read below. In Debt: The First 5,000 Years, an
To its credit, enterprise IT management finally acknowledges open source. To its shame, it fails to foster a culture of contribution. This is particularly counterproductive, given that most developers
Open source in 2019, Part 3/3 Open source 21 years in, the landscape around open source evolved a lot. In part 1 and part 2 of this 3-part series, I explained why today, while open source is more nece
Open source in 2019, Part 2/3 Open source 21 years in, the landscape around open source evolved a lot. In part 1 of this 3-part series, I explained all of open source benefits and why I think open sou
Open source in 2019, Part 1/3 Open source 21 years in, the landscape around open source evolved a lot. Today, "open source" is not enough. In my opinion it is necessary, but it is not sufficient. In t
You could say that open source was born out of both frustration and necessity. In 1980, Richard Stallman, irked after being blocked from modifying the program a glitchy new laser printer, kicked off t
8 min read· Oct 17, 2018 -- I wrote a blog post two years ago called There is NO Open Source Business Model. In it, I argued that open source software is really about engineering economics, where well
Image: vladdeep/Adobe Stock Open source Artificial Intelligence OpenAI’s GPT-4 Can Autonomously Exploit 87% of One-Day Vulnerabilities, Study Finds Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-C
Earlier this month, the database company Cockroach Labs relicensed its flagship database product. This is notable for two reasons. Most obviously, the company is following in the footsteps of several
‘Wrong Way’ by Elaine with Grey Cats on Flickr; CC-BY Recently a friend wrote asking me “what’s up with Amazon and open source?” and “is there a chance these new licenses will be approved by OSI?” Wha
Salil Deshpande Contributor Salil Deshpande serves as the managing director of Bain Capital Ventures. He focuses on infrastructure software and open source. More posts by this contributor The crusade
Image: vladdeep/Adobe Stock Open source Artificial Intelligence OpenAI’s GPT-4 Can Autonomously Exploit 87% of One-Day Vulnerabilities, Study Finds Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-C
Companies, governments, and other organizations big and small are working with open source to achieve their goals. Teams range from barely considering it to betting their whole business on open source
April 23, 2019 #wontfixendorsements can’t fix the Open Source Definition The Open Source Initiative’s Open Source Definition isn’t a rigorous, technical definition of open source. In reality, the Defi
Open source software security defined Open-source software security is essential to manage open source components and dependencies to mitigate the risks and vulnerabilities that come with third-party
Goodbye Open Core — Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish 8 min read· Apr 2, 2019 -- The Chef Community, being amazing at ChefConf. This morning, Chef Software announced that it will be releasing 100% of its s
In one of our first ZDnet posts a couple years back, we proffered the question of whether open source was becoming the new default business model for enterprise software. It's only been a couple years
“Europe today is a powder keg and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal. A single spark will set off an explosion that will consume us all. I cannot tell you when that explosion will occur, b
Regarding this tweet: https://twitter.com/skamille/status/1106955368901550082 Which links to this article: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/03/15/cloud-open-source-powder-keg/ Which led to some though
Published inSustainable Free and Open Source Communities · 10 min read· Mar 12, 2019 -- The Kobayashi Maru, a no win scenario. From https://flic.kr/p/9Bs7qi. At the heart of Open Source beats Free Sof
This article is more than 5 years old. Confluent founders Neha Narkhede, CEO Jay Kreps [+][-] and Jun Rao have built a new unicorn on top of open-source code. Eric Millette Open-source software has pr
Analysis GitHub invited a handful of journalists to its San Francisco headquarters to explain how the social code hosting biz is evolving from a website into a platform. The event was hosted by Sam La
By Use Cases, Developer May 12, 2017 Navigate to: A few weeks ago I gave the Day 2 opening keynote at PerconaLive, a conference focused on Open Source Databases. My talk, titled “The Open Source Busin
An alarmist title, I know, but it’s true. If the Commons clause were to be adopted by all open source projects, they would cease to be open source1, and therefore the Commons clause is trying to destr
Michael DeHaan Aug 24, 2018 · 10 min read Recently there’s been some controversy over Commons Clause | Redis Labs . In short, Redis chose to make certain optional modules non-free for limited forms of commercial use (like consulting or inclusion in online hosted services that resell them). I will…
Redis Labs, a company building commercial complements to the Redis data store, just published a “Commons Clause” that attempts to prevent commercial use of software under an open source license. This
Net giants depend on open source: so where's the gratitude? Licensing lies at the heart of open source. Arguably, free software began with the publication of the GNU GPL in 1989. And since then, open-
By Company, Developer Aug 22, 2018 Navigate to: Like many open source developers, I’ve been reading the commentary around Redis Common Clause Licensing with great interest (HN thread). The gist of it
Salil Deshpande Contributor Salil Deshpande serves as the managing director of Bain Capital Ventures. He focuses on infrastructure software and open source. More posts by this contributor Lack of lead
Salil Deshpande Contributor Salil Deshpande serves as the managing director of Bain Capital Ventures. He focuses on infrastructure software and open source. More posts by this contributor Lack of lead
In an attempt to explain the periodic fluctuations in American history, the historian Arthur Schlesinger – the Schlesinger the Harvard library is named after, not his son Arthur Schlesinger Jr that wo
Long story short, I have this tattoo because it reminds me that I have things that I value. I value my family. I value my work. I value video games. All kinds of stuff. In my heart, I believe that the
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