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Favorite [SPONSOR OPINION] By Heather Meeker, OSS Capital Machine learning has been around for a long time. But in late 2022, recent advancements in deep learning and large language models started to change the game and come into the public eye. And people started thinking, “We love Open Source software,
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Shared by voicesofopensource September 14, 2023
Favorite Traduit en français. It’s good news that the European Commission is now considering the value and needs of Open Source in its policy deliberations. What’s not as good is that it does so through the wrong lens. The Commission needs to extend its consultations, Expert Groups and other work
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Favorite This Monday, I was in Brussels to attend a stakeholder workshop for the Digital Market Act (DMA) organized by the European Commission. For those who aren’t familiar with the DMA, it’s a new law that the European Parliament voted on recently and one of its goals is to force
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Favorite With the European Commission soon to offer the Parliament a bill relating to Standard-Essential Patents (SEPs), it is worth taking time to understand exactly why vendors requiring negotiations to use the patents they have embedded in “open” standards is antithetical to Open Source practice. The value and prosperity generated from Open Source arises from
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Favorite The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is an interesting and important proposal for a European law that aims to drive the safety and integrity of software of all kinds by extending the “CE” self-attestation mark to software. And it may harm Open Source. The proposal includes a requirement for self-certification
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Favorite There’s more to Mastodon than just replacing Twitter. ActivityPub has the potential to end the reign of monetized surveillance with a switch to user-owned applications. The post The Fediverse unlocks a world of composable distributed apps first appeared on Voices of Open Source. Click Here to View Original Source
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Favorite By Alek Tarkowski The launch of open models like BLOOM and Stable Diffusion is a… The post On the emerging landscape of open AI first appeared on Voices of Open Source. Click Here to View Original Source (opensource.org)
Favorite The Tornado Cash case: Did the US Treasury censor code or illegal actions? The post Did the US Treasury censor code or illegal actions? first appeared on Voices of Open Source. Click Here to View Original Source (opensource.org)
Favorite App stores require that Open Source developers constantly jump through ever-changing hoops. This is an unsustainable demand. Read a proposal on how to change that. The post How to make app stores friendly to Open Source first appeared on Voices of Open Source. Click Here to View Original Source
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