Automattic says it will resume contributing to the WordPress project, after announcing a pause in April
· — After pausing our contributions to regroup, rethink … Bluesky: Ernie Smith / @ernie.tedium.co : Not exactly giving folks a clear idea of what's what [embedded post] X: David Risley / @davidrisle...
MariaDB, which went public via SPAC in December 2022, gets an offer from K1 to go private in a $37M deal, or $0.55/share, far below its $672M Series D valuation
if it is controlled by capitalists, don't call it FLOSS. — this should have been clear by now with the bait-and-switch Google pulled with the “privatization” of Android's GApps vs. ASOS. … Dare Obas...
Tencent joins the open-source chip group RISC-V International as a premier member; 13 out of the 25 premier members are from China, including Huawei and ZTE
Che Pan / South China Morning Post : Tweets: @bgurley , @tariqkrim , and @bgurley Tweets: Bill Gurley / @bgurley : If you doubt the power of open source, watch what RISC-V accomplishes in next decade...
Tencent confirms it joined the open-source chip group RISC-V International as a premier member; 13 out of 25 premier members are from China, including Huawei
Tencent Holdings is the latest Chinese tech firm to join RISC-V International, the world's largest open-source processor architecture group … Tweets: @bgurley , @tariqkrim , and @bgurley Tweets: Bill ...
A developer based in Crimea and one based in Iran say that GitHub has “restricted” their accounts “due to US trade controls”
Tip: You can use this extension … Troy Wolverton / Business Insider : GitHub is reportedly blocking access to its site for users in places like Crimea and Iran, which are under US sanctions Joe Fay / ...
Wim Coekaerts, who headed Linux efforts at Oracle as SVP, moves to Microsoft as Corporate Vice President of Open Source
Head of Oracle Linux moves to Microsoft — The man who turned Oracle into a Linux power, Wim Coekaerts, has moved to Microsoft. — LAKE TAHOE, Calif. …
HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source
HP to enable creativity of the community to accelerate the next-generation web-centric platform — HP today announced it will contribute the webOS software to the open source community. — HP plans ...
Lightroom and Open Source
· Over the last few years, I've become something of an open-source triumphalist, drifting to the conclusion that (on the engineering side) it's the best way to build software and (on the business side...