"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 bubble?! - but Tara Tarakiyee makes some important points here about our dependence on open source code…

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 ongoing projects. Pierre-Yves Gibello, CEO of open-source consortium OW2, urged EU officials to…

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 libraries had been compromised, but it turns out there's much more to the story. The developer of…

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 to grow communities around their project, a step often overlooked when “publishing” code. When it…

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, should your open source project? Probably not. Here’s why: What is a CLA? If you’re new to concepts…

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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, anthropologist David Graeber explores the fascinating history of debt and economies. It starts out by…

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 already spend a significant amount of time contributing to open source in their free hours.…

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 the movement. He launched the GNU operating system which, combined with Linux, runs on tens of…

Stephen Walli 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-run collaborative communities capture orders of magnitude of engineering value, and…

Image: DC_Studio/Envato Open source Artificial Intelligence IBM Releases Open-Source Granite 4.0 Generative AI Small Granite 4.0 models are available today, with ‘thinking,’ medium, and nano variants releasing later this year. Read More See more Artificial Intelligence articles Image: Google Open…

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 of its commercial open source database peers such as Confluent, Elastic, MongoDB, Redis Labs and…

Lack of leadership in open source results in source-available licenses Salil Deshpande 2:00 PM PDT · May 30, 2019 Amazon’s behavior toward open source combined with lack of leadership from industry associations such as the Open Source Initiative (OSI) will stifle open-source innovation and make…

Image: DC_Studio/Envato Open source Artificial Intelligence IBM Releases Open-Source Granite 4.0 Generative AI Small Granite 4.0 models are available today, with ‘thinking,’ medium, and nano variants releasing later this year. Read More See more Artificial Intelligence articles Image: Google Open…

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. Putting some structure on this spectrum has helped me think about and evolve Microsoft’s open…

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 software. Open source software has become widely used over the past few years due to its…

Adam Jacob 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 software as Open Source, under the Apache License. Going forward, all of its product development will be done in the open, with the…

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, but looking back, the question now seems a bit quaint given the recent actions of Redis, MongoDB,…

“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, but I can tell you where. Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans will set it off.” – Otto von…

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 thoughts and questions in my mind about the future of open source systems projects. Here are some…

Adam Jacob 10 min read· Mar 12, 2019 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size The Kobayashi Maru, a no win scenario. From https://flic.kr/p/9Bs7qi. At the heart of Open Source beats Free Software values. The AWS announcement that they are launching the Open Distro for Elasticsearch,…

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 produced a new multibillion-dollar company–one that has some of Silicon Valley’s best-known venture firms jockeying to invest tens of millions in…

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 Lambert, whose title – head of platform – removes any doubt about how things will turn out. Founded in…

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 Business Model is Under Siege,” is about the existential threat that Open Source Database companies, or…

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

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 is that work on certain enterprise modules for Redis that are developed by RedisLabs will be…

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 worked in Kennedy’s administration – posited that history runs in cycles. Specifically, his cyclical…

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 person I am values those things in a kind of internal stack rank: I would never want to hurt my…