“While the lack of funding in open source is certainly a problem, could funding have prevented the Log4j vulnerabilities?” asks Mike Melanson’s “This Week in Programming” column. “Would funding actually prevent similar vulnerabilities in the future…?…
「オープンソースがインターネットの未来」と信じ19歳から18年かけて8600億円の企業を作り出したWordPress創業者マット・マレンウェッグ氏とはどんな人物なのか？
WordPressは2021年12月時点において、インターネットに存在するウェブサイトのうち、約43％をホストするに至っています。Wordpressを運用するAutomatticの創業者・CEOであるマット・マレンウェッグ氏は2008年、24歳にしてスティーブ・ジョブス氏やジェフ・ベゾス氏らとともに、「インターネットで最も影響力のある25人」…
HashiCorp’s IPO Will Place It Among the Most Richly Valued Open Source Tech Companies
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The HashiCorp IPO intends to shoot the narrows between Thanksgiving and Christmas, with its first IPO pricing interval set to give it among the richest valuations of any technology company with a str…
After Open Source Community Outcry, Microsoft Reverses Controversial<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET Change
“Microsoft is reversing a decision to remove a key feature from its upcoming .NET 6 release, after a public outcry from the open source community,” reports the Verge.
“Microsoft angered the .NET open source community earlier this week by removing a k…
Trump’s TRUTH Social May Violate Terms of Open-Source Code It’s Built On
ISayWeOnlyToBePolite writes: The new social network founded by former President Trump may violate the terms of use of the software on which it is based. On Wednesday night, after Trump revealed the TRUTH social app, Twitter users began to note that the…
OpenBSD 7.0 Released
ArchieBunker writes: Everyone’s favorite security-focused operating system, OpenBSD, released version 7.0 today. In addition to the usual bug fixes and performance enhancements, support for RISC-V processors has been added. The changelog and mirrors ca…
Linus Torvalds On Community, Rust and Linux’s Longevity
An anonymous reader writes: This week saw the annual check-in with Linux creator Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America, this year held in Seattle (as well as virtually). Torvalds took the stage for the event’s traditional half-hour of …
Linux Foundation Survey Shows Companies Desperate To Hire Open-Source Talent
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: At the Open Source Summit in Seattle, The Linux Foundation, and edX, the leading massive open online course (MOOC) provider released the 2021 Open Source Jobs Report. In this survey of 200 technical hirin…
A whole new way to make electronic music
In a way, Bespoke is like if I smashed Ableton to bits with a baseball bat, and asked you to put it back together. It’s an open source modular synthesizer, a live looping station, a VST host, a Python livecoding environment, and a MIDI controller perf…
Travis CI Flaw Exposed Secrets of Thousands of Open Source Projects
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Travis CI is a popular software-testing tool due to its seamless integration with GitHub and Bitbucket. As the makers of the tool explain: “When you run a build, Travis CI clones your GitHub reposi…