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...
Kernel developers' position on GPLv3
The Dangers and Problems with GPLv3 — Trond Myklebust David Woodhouse … 1 Linux and GPLv2 — Over the past decade, the Linux Operating System has shown itself to be far and away the mos...