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The open source effect demands software freedom and “pragmatically” curtailing it simply prevents the success of “open initiatives” by chilling the open source effect on whi…| Meshed Insights Ltd
The open source effect demands software freedom and “pragmatically” curtailing it simply prevents the success of “open initiatives” by chilling the open source effect on whi…| Meshed Insights Ltd
What has powered open source to become part of 75% of all software and drive nearly €100 bn of EU GDP? I suggest it’s ultimately developer confidence — and that the effects involved are…| Meshed Insights Ltd
There’s an old story about someone in the dark feeling the trunk of an elephant and believing it’s a snake because they can’t see the whole animal. It’s happening again, as people spooked from the …| Meshed Insights Ltd
The decision of LightBend to end the open source status of Akka was in retrospect more probable than not given the available evidence.| Meshed Insights Ltd
Bug bounties prioritise the non-contributor’s worldview – the quality of the strip-mined commodity – and neglect the true community view – pooled innovation and shared costs.| Meshed Insights Ltd
The word “open” is overloaded. In the domain of standardisers, a process that permits any company to participate (even if doing so is punitively expensive) is considered “open” and the re…| Meshed Insights Ltd
Choosing between licenses – even copyleft vs non-reciprocal – is less important than ensuring everyone has equal rights & responsibilities. I’m often asked which open source l…| Meshed Insights Ltd
How similar are open source development and standards development? Not at all, and even the words they have in common mean different things in each. It’s a traaap It is often asserted that op…| Meshed Insights Ltd
Patents in standards are toxic to open source collaboration. License compatibility is really beside the point.| Meshed Insights Ltd
GitHub’s CoPilot tool may well be revolutionary, according to Bradley Kuhn. An AI trained by reading a massive and unidentified corpus of code, assumed to mostly be open source and licensed fo…| Meshed Insights Ltd
… whether we use it or not! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation continues to make license-compliant releases of a fully RHEL-Compatible Linux distribution within one or two days of RedHat’s rel…| Meshed Insights Ltd
Perhaps the biggest current challenge to open source software is companies which ignore open source software licenses. That sounds so “yesterday” from an era of license scanners and com…| Meshed Insights Ltd
It may come as a surprise to find that some supposedly “open“ standards – including those ratified by standards development organisations (SDOs) like ISO, CEN and ETSI – can’t be implemented withou…| Meshed Insights Ltd
It’s not new, even if each time it comes up people think it’s a new outrage. Caged Bird of Paradise One of the durable long-term strategies for software businesses in the era of open so…| Meshed Insights Ltd
