Snowflake, Salesforce, and others announce the Open Semantic Interchange, a vendor-neutral standard for how business data is defined and shared across platforms
and how it sets up businesses to succeed: [link] @snowflake : AI adoption won't scale without interoperability. That's why Snowflake and industry-leading partners including @Salesforce, @BlackRock & @...
Redis, which makes the Redis value-key database, returns its main system to open-source license AGPL, after criticism in 2024 for moving to a dual-license model
https://antirez.com/... Though the more interesting question I think is whether Redis Inc can recover the lost trust from the community (and from customers). … Forums: r/programming : Redis is open s...
Meta disagrees with OSI's definition of open-source AI; Llama doesn't fit the definition due to its commercial use restrictions and no access to training data
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has released its official definition of “open” artificial intelligence, setting the stage …
The Open Source Initiative releases version 1.0 of its Open Source AI Definition, after years of collaboration with academia and the industry
There's finally an “official” definition of open source AI. — The Open Source Initiative (OSI), a long-running institution aiming to define and …
Microsoft joins the Open Source Initiative as a premium sponsor, joining Google and others
Microsoft today announced that it has joined the Open Source Initiative (OSI) as a Premium Sponsor. The OSI, which launched in 1998, takes a relatively pragmatic approach to open source and advocates...
Microsoft Out in the Open
This morning, we were excited to learn that two of Microsoft's Shared Source licenses have been approved by the OSI. It's been an interesting and educational couple of months since we submitted these...
The long hard road to open source
Will Microsoft's new licenses change the way we think about open source? Regular columnist Bill Thompson believes they could. — Microsoft has stirred up debate in the open source community by annou...
Will The Real Open Source CRM Please Stand Up?
Dana Blankenhorn's story How far can open source CRM get? has finally pushed me to respond to the many people who have asked "When is the OSI going to stand up to companies who are flagrantly abusing ...
Producing Open Source Software
Open Source Software is more than just software that has an Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved license. It's a whole development style and culture. Karl Fogel is one of the developers of the Subv...
Microsoft, OSI Discuss Shared Source Licenses
While Microsoft Corp. has publicly said it has no immediate plans to submit its newest Shared Source licenses to the Open Source Initiative for approval, the company met with the OSI board this week t...