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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 40 posts.
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Open Source .NET three years later
A little over 3 years ago Microsoft announced that they were open sourcing large parts of the .NET framework and as Scott Hanselman said in his Connect 2016 keynote, the community has been contributing in a significant way:
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OpenBSD 6.2 and CDE
If you've noticed a disruption in the time-space continuum recently, it is likely because I have finally been able to compile and install ...
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Why we never thank open source maintainers
Why we never thank open source maintainers - Unicooo
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DéjàVu: a map of code duplicates on GitHub
DéjàVu: A map of code duplicates on GitHub Lopes et al., OOPSLA ‘17 ‘DéjàVu’ drew me in with its attention grabbing abstract: This paper analyzes a corpus of 4.5 million non-fork projects hosted on…
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Ansible open-sources Ansible Tower with AWX
Ever since Red Hat acquired Ansible, I and many others have anticipated whether or when Ansible Tower would be open sourced. Ansible Tower is one of the nicest automation tools I've used... but since I haven't been on a project with the budget to support the Tower licensing fees, I have only used it for testing…
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The License Zero Manifesto
sustainable software in the open
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Relicensing the GraphQL specification
Today we’re relicensing the GraphQL specification under the Open Web Foundation Agreement (OWFa) v1.0. We think the OWFa is a great fit for…
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Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)
How I started using Linux and the things I love about Arch Linux
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How you can contribute to Firefox 57 success
If you’ve been following Firefox development over the last year, you probably know that we’re hard at work on a major refactor of the browser, codenamed Quantum .
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Why GitHub Can't Host the Linux Kernel Community
A while back at the awesome maintainerati Ichatted with a few great fellow maintainers about how to scale really big opensource projects, and how github forc...
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OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X
The Huawei MateBook X is a high-quality 13" ultra-thin laptop with a fanless Core i5 processor. It is obviously biting the design of the Apple 12" MacBook , but it does have some notable improvements such as a slightly larger screen, a more usable keyboard with adequate key travel, and 2 USB-C ports.
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50 days of postmarketOS
We are fed up with Android's endless forks! Fifty days ago I have announced postmarketOS, a touch-optimized, pre-configured Alpine Linux , which can be installed on smartphones. It avoids Android's bad habit of forking software for every single device (!) entirely by going the other way around and unifying as much as…
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Ten years after first shipping Openmoko Neo1973
Exactly 10 years ago, on July 9th, 2007 we started to sell+ship the first Openmoko Neo1973. To be more precise, the webshop actually opened a few hours early, depending on your time zone. Sean announ
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Grsecurity: Potential contributory infringement and breach of contract risk
It's my strong opinion that your company should avoid the Grsecurity product sold at grsecurity.net because it presents a contributory infringement and breach of contract risk.
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Understanding the “GPL is a Contract” court case
There's been a lot of confusion about the recent Artifex v. Hancom case, in which the court found that the GPL was an enforceable contract. I'm going to try to explain the whole thing in clear terms for the legal layman.
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PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
Introduction post to postmarketOS , a touch-optimized, pre-configured Alpine Linux with own packages, that can be installed on smartphones. (Not usable for most people yet!)
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A plan for open source software maintainers
It seems to me that this is a case where problems are in fact solutions to other problems. To wit:
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How I realised “Free Software” is a better term than “Open Source”
A month ago I wrote an article called "How I realised “Open Source” is a better term than “Free Software”" . Now I change my mind completely and explain why everything I said was actually wrong.
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Debian port for RISC-V 64-bit
This is a post describing my involvement with the Debian GNU/Linux port for RISC-V (unofficial and not endorsed by Debian at the moment) and announcing the availability of the repository (still very much WIP) with packages built for this architecture. If not interested in the story but you want to check the…
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The new contribution workflow for Gnome
Hello community, I have big good news to share with you. You might know we have been working for years on materializing what we wanted the future of contribution to be, we did multiple iterations a…
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Open Source License Business Perception Report
the pain and confusion of common open licenses, roughly quantified