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March 28, 2024
First, they build programs with open source. Then they build their business with open source. Then they abandon it and cash out.
October 19, 2023
My family wasn't poor by any stretch of the imagination, but I was raised to avoid spending money whenever possible. I was also taught "it's a poor craftsman that blames th...
June 30, 2023
A comprehensive guide to publishing your video game as free software
January 25, 2022
While I don’t care too much about ideas and projects that I believe to be dead ends or maybe even doomed to fail eventually, a recent interaction on Superhighway84 got me to write down a few thoughts on why I believe Project Gemini is a really bad idea.
October 3, 2021
The maintainer of glibc, Ulrich Drepper, wrote an article called "Static Linking Considered Harmful". This is why his post is wrong.
May 10, 2021
Funding for OSS projects is typically dire. In 2019, developer André Staltz collected data from Open Collective and GitHub to assess project revenues. Over 50 per cent of projects couldnt sustain their maintainers above the poverty line, while 31 per cent generated enough for a salary considered unacceptable in the industry. The sample size was small (58), but that made these results even more illuminating. It comprised relatively large projects, most with at least one full-time contributor. F...
April 13, 2021
Beta expected in a matter of weeks, production release planned for summer Tim Anderson Tue 13 Apr 2021 // 15:29 UTC Share Copy AWS has introduced the OpenSearch project, the new name for its open-source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana. OpenSearch is "the new home for our previous distribution of Elasticsearch (Open Distro for Elasticsearch)," according to a post yesterday, and the code is licensed under Apache 2.0. The Kibana fork is called OpenSearch Dashboards. The pr...
January 21, 2021
So are ya open source or arent ya? Tim Anderson Thu 21 Jan 2021 // 10:15 UTC Share Copy Elastic CEO and co-founder Shay Banon has attacked AWS for what he claims is unacceptable use of the open-source Elasticsearch product and trademark. Banons post is part of the companys defence of its decision to drop the open-source Apache 2.0 licence for its ElasticSearch and Kibana products and instead use the copyleft SSPL or restrictive Elastic licence – though the plan is to a...