Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of contributions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry
A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes …
Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of contributions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry
A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes …
Sources allege that nonprofit Ruby Central took control of some Ruby open-source projects from their maintainers without consent, after pressure from Shopify
Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.
Ghost's CEO details the organization's governance structure and says the open-source CMS generates ~$7.5M in annual revenue and has been profitable for 12 years
Ghost is a distributed non-profit foundation which gives away all of its intellectual property under a permissive MIT license. Threads: @prschulz , @dvdwinden , and @quillmatiq . Mastodon: @ben@werd.s...
Matt Mullenweg responds to DHH's claim that “Automattic is doing open source dirty”, pointing out Rails' own trademark policy and taking some jabs at 37signals
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Casey Newton / @crumbler : The number of ad hominem personal attacks against DHH in here that have nothing to do with the issue are extremely telling. Joe Rosenthal / @...
Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF's team says the plugin was taken away “without consent”
It's super late at night on Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. Edward Targett / The Stack : Wordpress Wars: Forking crazy nuclear takeover triggers fury Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : WordPress Forcefully Take...
A look at Meta's AI strategy, which is a bet that open sourcing the tech will drive down competitors' prices and spread Meta's version of AI more broadly
Wall Street Journal : Threads: @jjackyliang . Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social . X: @hoofnagle , @canadakaz , @ylecun , and @ylecun Threads: Jacky Liang / @jjackyliang : no tech company ever “open sou...
GitHub partners with code-signing service Sigstore to add support for signing npm software packages, helping improve the security of open source projects
most people just don't believe you or are terrified.” Dramatic supply chain updates from @lorenc_dan @jhutchings0 @npmjs @projectsigstore https://www.wired.com/... @npmjs : Today we opened an RFC with...
Following the White House's open-source security summit, Google proposes setting up an organization to serve as a marketplace for open source maintenance
to ensure national infrastructure and other important systems can rely on open source projects.” https://blog.google/... Kent Walker / @kent_walker : Open source software is the connective tissue for ...
TikTok faces allegations that it copied code from broadcast app OBS Studio and other open source projects for Live Studio without adhering to licensing terms
TikTok's latest video-production tool is said to be violating open-source licenses: The company's new Live Studio Windows app …