Collaborate Disseminate
“A recent analysis accounting for nearly 1.2 million open source software projects primarily across four major ecosystems found that only about 11% of projects were actively maintained,” reports InfoWorld:
In its 9th Annual State of the Software Suppl… Continue reading Report Finds Few Open Source Projects are Actively Maintained
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports via The Register: The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) may open source the proprietary encryption algorithms used to secure emergency radio communications after a public backlash over security flaw… Continue reading Europe Mulls Open Sourcing TETRA Emergency Services’ Encryption Algorithms
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: When HashiCorp announced it was changing its Terraform license in August, it set off a firestorm in the open source community, and actually represented an existential threat to startups that were bui… Continue reading Terraform Fork Gets Renamed OpenTofu, Joins Linux Foundation
“Terraform, arguably the most popular Infrastructure as Code products, has been forked after the parent company HashiCorp changed its license from the Mozilla Public License (MPL) to the Business Source License v1.1 (BSL),” writes long-time Slashdot re… Continue reading Terraform By Hashicorp Forked To OpenTF
ZDNet’s Steven Vaughan-Nichols shares what’s new in the release of Linux 6.5: The biggest news for servers — and cloud Linux users — is AMD Ryzen processors’ P-State support. This support should mean better performance and power use across CPU cores…. Continue reading Linux 6.5 Kernel Released
Free and open software have transformed the tech industry. But we still have a lot to work out to make them healthy, equitable enterprises. From a report: When Xerox donated a new laser printer to MIT in 1980, the company couldn’t have known that the m… Continue reading The Future of Open Source is Still Very Much in Flux
It’s time for the open source Rambos to stop fighting and agree that developers care more about software’s access and ease of use than the purity of its license, reads a piece on InfoWorld. From the report: The open source war is over, however much som… Continue reading ‘The Open Source Licensing War is Over’
Bram Moolenaar was Vim’s creator/maintainer/benevolent-dictator for life. Early this morning his family shared sad news on the Vim-announce Google Group. “It is with a heavy heart that we have to inform you that Bram Moolenaar passed away on 3 August 2… Continue reading Vim’s Creator Bram Moolenaar Dies at Age 62
Meta on Wednesday introduced its open-source AI tool called AudioCraft that will help users to create music and audio based on text prompts. Reuters reports: The AI tool is bundled with three models, AudioGen, EnCodec and MusicGen, and works for music,… Continue reading Meta Releases AudioCraft AI Tool To Create Music From Text
Some of the largest tech companies, including Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia, have announced the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) to promote and develop Pixar’s 3D Universal Scene Description technology. From the Linux Foundation: The alliance seeks to… Continue reading Pixar, Adobe, Apple and Others Form Alliance For OpenUSD To Drive Open Standards For 3D Content