This stays true, most projects are maintained by a single person and that's a problem. Where is the support from all the businesses benefiting from FOSS?

The situation is still complicated for maintainers... And companies benefiting from their free labor don't get it. This leads to really stupid situations.

This is an old one, but I think that even without DVDs in the mix the core of the stories are still valid.

Very interesting stuff. This doesn't give a very cheerful picture of the current state though. Can a XMPP revival be in the cards? That would be an interesting outcome.

It's nice to see there are turn key solutions for hosting your own XMPP server nowadays. And the community behind this one even improve on the mobile applications.

Running interesting models locally gets more and more accessible.

It's a very important threshold to cross. Let's hope this momentum stays long enough.

Looks like an interesting vector editor.

Interesting framework to reason about lock-ins. It's not only about depending on a vendor, there are other factors to keep in mind. Now obviously I'd see the risks around cloud hosting in particular in a different way than the author... but I guess we're biased differently there.

This is a model which seems to work for donation campaigns for FOSS projects. I wonder how much this scales though... if everyone does that, is there a point where users will be fed up with it?

The situation around OpenSSL and its fork is rather confusing... And there's no indication this would improve.

It's indeed difficult to separate FUD from the real community issues around Matrix right now. We'll have to keep an eye on how things evolve.

I'd say this is a sane rant. Indeed, there's more progress to do, it will probably never stop. What could stop though is throwing crap at the people who quietly put effort into making our desktops more accessible.

Nice idea and well executed I'd say. If you got doubts about something being FOSS, stopping there and checking is in order.

This is definitely a paradox in community dynamics.

If there was still any doubt that the arguments coming from the big model providers were lies... Yes, you can train large models using a corpus of training data for which you respect the license. With the diminish return in performance of the newer families of models, the performance they got from the model trained on that corpus is not bad at all.

Nice to see one more implementation available for the fediverse. This one comes with interesting features actually.

I'm not sure this dichotomy is enough for building a taxonomy of FOSS projects. But I guess it's a start and captures something often missing in other such attempts.

Such contributions still don't exist. Or their quality is so abyssal that they waste everyone's time. Don't fall for the marketing speak.

This is one of the best references I know on the topic. It's not that long, to the point and all developers should know it.