As of now the site looks like a waitlist generation mechanism. Which itself is not a secure thing to do any more. Why would thousands of people give their email addresses to a website which doesn't even describe what they are going to do
We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
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Re: We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This is the Linux Foundation, so it must put OSS and community first, surely. Linux Foundation is run by the said called corporates from the list. So is Rust Foundation. Linux in itself is safe cos Linus controls it. Not the rest of the projects LF controls.
So far, the Linux Foundation, from what I have seen, has pretty darn good track record of keeping the projects under its umbrella open source, even going against corporate sponsors to do so. For a recent example, see the recent NATS tuffle. (And I should.recognize that Synadia, finally, did the right thing and backed down).
To add to this, I've experienced all sides of the LF and they are the only organization I trust at this point. Donating a project to them is A Good Thing.
There's bureaucracy of course but the mission is clear. Highly recommend working with them in any capacity.
Re: We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Burning out maintainers isn't "contributing back".
Do you have any examples of Google submitting vulnerabilities and refusing to assist maintainers create a patch when asked to do so?
Wasn’t that a story with ffmpeg a few months ago? And people were getting roasted for even the suggestion that google should contribute patches?
Re: We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
#194A bunch of corporations that don't want their taxes to go up (which a sliver of which could be used to fund public software), along with their acolytes that will never mention worker solidarity or improving the material outcomes of developers. I'll hold my breath.
Open source movement has been a massive success in devaluing skilled workers to except peanuts while American corporations suck up as much value as possible while giving less than half a percent in return.
There needs to be a backlash against this corporate white washing.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imagine if the AGPL had become the default license for open source projects, as it was intended to when the service provider loophole in the GPL became apparent. The software industry would be unrecognizable. Instead, millions of developers now gift corporations their work by releasing everything under MIT or Apache, and those corporations take from that treasure trove what they want and give back what they want, whi…
Some projects , like Godot are MIT so contributors can use it for their own commercial projects. Occasionally, EA for example, a big corp will donate some money to. Apple has created PRS to add support for Vision Pro. If Godot was GPL it would be useless for most commercial game devs.
You are absolutely allowed to use GPL software in commercial products, why are you deliberately lying or misleading?
GitHub could only exist because it was built on top of git, which is also GPL licensed. This is not the only example but should be the immediate one since nearly a vast majority of devs touch git on a daily basis.
Maybe stop listening to your legal team and actually think for a moment. GPL doesn't prevent commercialization, what it does is make sure everyone contributes to the same project equally. Shocker, corporations do not want to contribute to the common good they want to rat fuck it into submission for profit.
Re: We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
#196Nonsensical corporate posturing. "Microsoft will contribute expertise, resources, and AI technologies to help responsibly identify and fix vulnerabilities" As a reminder, Microsoft runs NPM and GitHub. Microsoft has access to the best AI models and massive data centers. Despite that, their own products are rapidly getting worse at security and their services are central hubs through which various exploits are propaga…
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> So, MS builds VSCode - doesn't even fork Atom to do so. Looks identical to it. They built it from scratch. Bigger. Slower.
Someone needs to fix a memory leak here.
Atom was famously slow. Even among people using it and championing it.
VSCode totally wowed people not just because it was faster, but because it was essentially the first «real» Electron-app which proved Electron-apps could have near native performance.
You got this part 100% backwards.
Re: We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
#197Akrites were the Byzantine border defenders. If they defend the OSS community against AI then they have to try hard, because Ottomans won at last.
Re: We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
#198Currently the worst assault on open source is PR spam and the collapse of trust and culture that comes with it. Focus on that if you really want to defend open source.
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#199Unrelated: the frontpage says:
> the root of the name [Akritai] is the same word that gives us critical — which is exactly the software this effort exists to defend.
This is pure corporate slop feels good bullshit generated by an LLM. “critical” comes from “kritikós” which means “related to judgement”. “Akritai” comes from “akron/ἄκρον” which means border.
To be fair the article doesn’t sit well with me on its own, but making crappy, etymologically-untrue claim? Not on my watch.
Re: We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
#200After reading this. I realize how different Asian and Western consciousness really are. My entire technology stack was built on Microsoft's ecosystem, not on open source. This was Microsoft's attempt to expand their base for the corporate hiring market and OS market share. Conversely, open source was a huge barrier for me. When I have a product I've built, I have to get past open source, but accessing open source com…
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