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INBUXA Is Here: Why I Forked a Mail Server I Genuinely Admire
Yesterday I gave you a name and nothing else. Today the curtain goes up. INBUXA is a mail and collaboration server, its console and its webmail, built as one suite with every feature in the install — and this is the…
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When the Cathedral Ate the Bazaar: How Corporate Power Consumed Open Source
Eric Raymond predicted the open bazaar would beat the corporate cathedral. For a while it did. Then the cathedral bought the stalls. How acquisitions, license changes and platform lock-in reshaped open source, what the…
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Repercussions of Closed Sourcing in Open Source Realms
Last week Elastic, which closed its license in 2021, added an open source one back. Three years of relicensing by MongoDB, Elastic, HashiCorp, Redis and now CockroachDB have produced enough evidence to judge the…