And yet another set of open source models. This is really democratizing quickly.

Truly open source models are pouring in. This is showing more transparency and I hope it will lead to better uses even though some of the concerns will stay true.

Since I've seen this argument floating around more than once, it's nice to have a properly done rebuttal of it. This is nicely done, listing the own bias of the author, still in the end that shows the logical flaw of the argument.

Are we surprised? Not at all... this is an ethical problem, this is a legal risk. The alternatives will hopefully know better.

Definitely this! Major FOSS projects should think twice before giving their street creds to such closed systems. They've been produced with dubious ethics and copyright practices and since they're usable only through APIs the induced vendor lock-in will be strong.

This is a good thing that Google makes such a move. Still, it could be so much more. Tidelift still seems to be the best offer for securing your dependencies.

I don't necessarily agree with the fine points in the proposed actions. That said the diagnosis is unfortunately very true I think.

Nice recipe on what can be used to run a virtual conference using only Free Software.

Clearly aims to demonstrate the superiority of their specialized hardware for training. That said it's nice to have proper open models available (architecture, training data, weights... it's all in the open).

This is a huge! DreamWorks Animation releasing its rendering pipeline as free software.

Early days for this type of research so a couple of limitations to keep in mind while reading this paper. Most notably: rather small sample explored (it's a qualitative study) and tends to conflate GitHub with "the Open Source community". The later especially matters since the vibe can be very different outside of GitHub.
That being said, very interesting findings in there. Some validate my experience with GitHub. It's clear that compared to other spaces there's much more entitlement behavior from some people. Interestingly the words seem on average less violent (although it does happen of course) than in other platforms... still this is important to keep in check since it could have implication toward prospective contributors.
The last point in their discussion section is promising. Some of the current manual interventions from maintainers seem to have good results (encouraging) and it seems possible to at least semi-automate the handling of toxic comments which could help with maintainers well-being.

Definitely agree with this, Github benefited from a powerful network effect and now a good chunk of important projects are "trapped" there. This can't be good long term.

Interesting business model. Could be a new path for at least some maintainers to be sustainably funded. Still a lot of unknowns though... probably worth keeping an eye on it.

Friendly reminder, if you're not paying authors of FOSS libraries, they owe you nothing.

There it is... at least for the developers and gamers demographic.

Looks like a good set of resources for OSPO and compliance in companies.

Alright, this going to be interesting. Pass me the pop corn. It's definitely a welcome move in any case.

Good reminder of the sometimes uneasy relationship between users and maintainers. This needs to stay healthy. Users need to know their place and maintainers should feel OK saying no to things.

Very interesting report although I admit I'm a bit skeptical at the strong "apolitical" message in it. This highlights very well a few challenges specific to Europe. We need to see them tackled I think. It's nice to see moves in the public sector but clearly it needs to go further and faster. Same thing regarding the creation of OSPOs in companies.

Slightly depressing when it's laid out like this... still there is some truth to it. Maybe it's time to rethink a few things.