Collaborate Disseminate
The Linux Foundation partnered with GitHub and Harvard’s Laboratory for Innovation Science to research organization-driven investments in open source software — the how and the why — surveying over 500 organizations around the world.
So wh… Continue reading ‘Open Source Software Funding Report’ Finds 86% of Corporate Contributions are Employees’ Time
“Single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi is updating its cute little computer-meet-keyboard device with better specifications…” reports TechCrunch.
They call the new $90 Raspberry Pi 500 “not as intimidating” because “when you look at the Raspberr… Continue reading Raspberry Pi Announces New $90 Computer in a Keyboard, Plus ‘Raspberry Pi Monitor’
Bruce Perens, original co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, has responded to questions from Slashdot readers about a new alternative he’s developing that hopefully helps “Post Open” developers get paid.
But first, “One of the things that’s clear … Continue reading Slashdot’s Interview with Bruce Perens: How He Hopes to Help ‘Post Open’ Developers Get Paid
Bruce Perens wrote the original Open Source definition back in 1997, and then co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric Raymond in 1998. But after resigning from the group in 2020, Perens is now diligently developing an alternative he calls “Post… Continue reading Ask Bruce Perens Your Questions About How He Hopes to Get Open Source Developers Paid
Back in the mid-1980s Mark Roth was in 5th grade when the game ChipWits “helped kindle his interest in coding,” according to an online biography. (“By middle school, he wrote his first Commodore 64 assembler and by high school he authored a 3D Graphics… Continue reading MacFORTH Code for 1984 Robot-Coding Game ‘ChipWits’ from 1984 is Now Open Source
The GitHub Secure Open Source Fund launched this week with an initial commitment of $1.25 million, reports TechCrunch, using “capital from contributors including American Express, 1Password, Shopify, Stripe, and GitHub’s own parent company Microsoft.”
… Continue reading GitHub Announces New Open Source Fund with Security Mentoring
ZDNet’s Steven Vaughan-Nichols interviews Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of The Linux Foundation and “head janitor of open source.” An anonymous Slashdot reader shares an excerpt from the article: When I first met Zemlin, he was the head of the Free St… Continue reading Jim Zemlin, ‘Head Janitor of Open Source,’ Marks 20 Years At Linux Foundation
Long-time Slashdot reader samj — also a long-time Debian developer — tells us there’s some opposition to the newly-released Open Source AI definition. He calls it a “fork” that undermines the original Open Source definition (which was origi… Continue reading New ‘Open Source AI Definition’ Criticized for Not Opening Training Data
Bitwarden describes itself as an “open source password manager for business.” But it also made a change its build requirement which led to an issue on the project’s GitHub page titled “Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software.”
In the wee… Continue reading Password Manager Bitwarden Makes Changes to Address Concerns Over Open Source Licensing
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Back in May, Google augmented its Gemini AI model with SynthID, a toolkit that embeds AI-generated content with watermarks it says are “imperceptible to humans” but can be easily and reliably detec… Continue reading Google Offers Its AI Watermarking Tech As Free Open Source Toolkit