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 evolutionof Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities. We are organized around thedevelo
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 , a
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 neces
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 sour
Open source in 2019, Part 1/3 Open source 21 years in, the landscape around open source evolved a lot. Today, "opensource" is not enough. In my opinion it is necessary, but it is notsufficient. In thi
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 we
How to Set Temporary Environment Variables in Linux In Jack Wallen's tutorial for developers, he show how easy it is to set temporary environment variables in Linux. Published: September 25, 2023, 5:5
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
How to Set Temporary Environment Variables in Linux In Jack Wallen's tutorial for developers, he show how easy it is to set temporary environment variables in Linux. Published: September 25, 2023, 5:5
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 #wontfix endorsements 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 De
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
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,
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 in Sustainable 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
This article is more than 4 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 p
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
The Open Source Business Model is Under Siege 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 Business
An alarmist title, I know, but it’s true. If the Commonsclause were to be adopted by all open sourceprojects, they would cease to be open source 1 , and therefore the Commonsclause is trying to destro
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. Th
Net giants depend on open source: so where's the gratitude? Licensing lies at the heart of open source.Arguably, free software beganwith thepublication of the GNU GPL in 1989 . And since then, open-so
It's Time for the Open Source Community to Get Real Like many open source developers, I’ve been reading the commentary around Redis Common Clause Licensing with great interest ( HN thread ). The gist
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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