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The maintainer of glibc, Ulrich Drepper, wrote an article called "Static Linking Considered Harmful". This is why his post is wrong.

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 couldn't 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. For each of these, there are thousands of other projects that are smaller, but still critical for at...

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 projects are on GitHub, where they are described as "in alpha state." The contributors said: "We've be...

So are ya open source or aren't 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. Banon's post is part of the company's 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 add provisions to mitigate this by having code revert to the Apache 2.0 licence after a period of ...