You think the xz vulnerability was a one time event? Think again, this kind of bullying with ulterior motives happen regularly to critical projects.
Excellent post showing unhealthy consumer/maintainer dynamics in FOSS projects. This particular example was instrumental in getting the xz backdoor in place.
Indeed, time to leave Redis behind in favor of Redict. It's not like one can expect new things to come out to such a project.
This is a big and relevant release for open and freely accessible culture.
Another nice review for Plasma 6. Looks like it's getting mostly very positive reviews. So glad!
This is a nice ruling about GPL violation in France. Gives some more weight to the GPL.
The HDMI Forum is really an annoying body to say the least... they lack so much transparency.
A nice little review of our latest major releases. Looks like it's well accepted so far. Very glad!
Good advice yes. Having a rough architecture document in a repository is more than welcome, it's needed to help on-boarding. This is unfortunately not the norm in FOSS projects.
Making sure maintainers are well paid is indeed an ongoing problem. There is currently no perfect solution within the world we live in. This is indeed no reason to blame the maintainers themselves for the approach they picked.
Good reminder that contributions are not only about code. Documentation, support, release management and so on are very important as well and too often underrated.
Looks like good progress has been made. A few more adjustments would be welcome before it gets ratified.
Very nice progress on this type of architecture. It's definitely needed in part because it lowers the inference cost quite a lot. It's also nice to see it released with under the Apache 2 license and the training set be documented.
Good exploration on how the total cost of ownership is spread depending on how is licensed the software you use and where you get your support from. I think there's one point a bit too glanced over in the analysis of the cost for the proprietary SaaS case: what's the cost of fixing a bug that affect your team? You might be a tiny fish in a large pond, good luck getting attention from support in this case.
Yes, there's something to do in this space. More funding is necessary, some form of platform might help... but it definitely won't be enough.
Very interesting ruling, this opens the door to more parties being able to sue to enforce the GPL not just the authors.
This is a stupid move on Unity's part... they're built on LGPL but ban others in their store to have LGPL dependencies. Shame on them. Good move from Videolabs though, wish them lots of success.
The current compromise might not be as bad as anticipated. Some things could be improved still. The community needs to be involved in the process.
Funny reverse engineering of the latest SteamOS to use it in a different context. Give some information on their system design.
Alright, it's 2024... Looking for a New Year Resolution? This is definitely the one you should contemplate! Maybe also prepare your switch to Plasma 6, but different story. 😉