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  1. The Transformative Power of Open Source

    If you had to pick one open source project that changed how all software is made, it's Git. Not because of a feature list, but because of one design decision, every copy is complete, that turned forking from a hostile…

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  2. Netflix Releases Maestro as Open Source

    Netflix has open sourced Maestro, the workflow orchestrator that runs its data and machine learning pipelines, half a million jobs a day. What a workflow orchestrator is, what makes Maestro different from Airflow and…

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  3. Open Source vs. Proprietary AI Models

    Yesterday Meta released Llama 3.1 405B and called it open source. It's a remarkable model, and it isn't open source by any definition the term used to have. What "open" means for AI models, how open-weight models…

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  4. Switzerland Mandates Open Source Software for Government

    Since January, Swiss law has required the federal government to publish the software it develops as open source. It's not quite "all government software must be open source," as some headlines put it, but it's one of…

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  5. Join the Fediverse: Your Guide to Decentralized Social Networking

    The fediverse is social media that works like email. Pick a server, talk to anyone on any other server, and take your followers with you if you move. How it works, how it differs from Bluesky and Threads, how to choose…

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  6. The Vital Role of Linux and Open Source Software in FinTech

    Two days after a security update grounded banks and brokerages, it's worth looking at what the financial system actually runs on. Exchanges, trading firms, payment processors and banks run overwhelmingly on Linux and…

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  7. MariaDB vs. MySQL: Understanding the Differences

    MariaDB began in 2009 as a drop-in replacement for MySQL, forked by MySQL's own creator out of worry about Oracle. Fifteen years later they've drifted apart in ways that matter. Where they came from, how they differ in…

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  8. Open Source Alternatives to Crowdstrike: Ensuring Resilience Against Global Outages

    After today's outage, a lot of people are asking whether open source security tools could replace CrowdStrike. Some can do parts of the job, and some do them very well. None of them is a drop-in replacement, and open…

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  9. Understanding Open Source Licensing

    Open source licenses are short, readable and enforceable, and companies still get them wrong. What the main licenses actually require, what triggers those requirements, and the court cases that proved the GPL has teeth…

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  10. OPINION: Do We Really Need Another Linux Distribution?

    There are hundreds of Linux distributions, and someone is starting another one right now. Do we need it? Probably not. Should they do it anyway? Probably yes. What all that choice really costs, what it's given us, and…

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  11. LF Decentralized Trust

    The Linux Foundation announced last month that Hyperledger is becoming part of a bigger umbrella, LF Decentralized Trust, covering ledgers, digital identity and cryptography. What it is, what enterprise blockchain has…

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  12. The History of Open Source

    Software started out free because nobody thought to sell it. Then it became property, then a movement fought to make it free again, and then the movement won so thoroughly that the companies it fought now run on it. A…

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