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
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
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
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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