#Meta to the #EU: âthe focus should be on creating a regulatory infrastructure that ensures any licence that is sufficiently permissive for the user is considered open source, rather than anointing specific licences as âopen sourceâ.â
Brilliant, sure, letâs ignore existing definitions and go with gut feeling (incidently, Meta has a gut feeling generator).
New (February 2025) paper, https://cms.mgt.tum.de/fileadmin/mgt.tum.de/faculty_and_research/mppe/39_Nora_von_Ingersleben-Seip_How_the_European_Union_Fell_Out_Of_Love_With_Open-Source_Software.pdf , describes âHow the European Union Fell Out of Love with Open-Source Softwareâ:
âA coalition of determined open-source software (OSS) advocates and a handful of technology experts working in the European Commission set out in 2004 to end Microsoftâs monopoly. They almost succeeded. This article reveals how they managed to change the EUâs software policies, made Microsoft lobbyists work overtime - and in the end, and despite their best efforts, could not withstand the power of proprietary companiesâ lobbying campaigns.
Drawing on the Multiple Streams Framework, the article explains the European Commissionâs decision to promote OSS and open standards in 2004, and its puzzling decision to reverse course just a few years later, in 2010, despite its unchanged rhetoric about the benefits of openness. The analysis reveals three key factors that drove the changes in the EUâs policies.
In 2004, OSS advocates managed to frame the EUâs dependency on proprietary software as a problem â and the promotion of OSS and open standards as the solution.
In 2010, #Microsoft and other proprietary companies used their existing connections in Brussels to sow doubt about the maturity and cost of #OSS among #EU policymakers.â
25 years later weâre where we started.
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libeconf and rubygems), Fedora (libxmp), Gentoo (glibc), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk, kernel, libxslt, and virtuoso-opensource), SUSE (augeas, git-lfs, kanidm, and tomcat10), and Ubuntu (linux-lts-xenial). â Read more
OSI publishes election retrospective
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has quietly published
âtakeawaysâ from its internal retrospective on the recent board
of directors election as an update
to the March blog\âšpost that announced the new members of the board. The election was
controversial, in part, due to poor communication and OSI changing the
election rules and disqualifying sever ⊠â Read more
[$] OSI election ends with unsatisfying results
The Open Source Initiative
(OSI) has announced
the results of its recent board of directors election. Ruth Suehle and
McCoy Smith are new to the board, while Carlo Piana will serve another
term. The results, however, seem tainted in the eyes of some
participants and observers. The election has been plagued by missteps
from the beginning and has culminated with the exclusion of three
candi ⊠â Read more
[lang=es] definitivamente es una buena llamada de atenciĂłn para promover mĂĄs donaciones a proyectos opensource. La verdad apoyo menos proyectos de los que âdeberĂaâ, por el valor que me ofrecen.
Una opiniĂłn pragmĂĄtica es que hay la libertad de no pagar, pero tambiĂ©n esto nos deberĂa llevar a que tenemos la libertad de SĂ reconocer los proyectos que nos dan valor, por medio de un donativo puntual o constante. Adaptarnos al contexto de lo que estamos ofreciendo.
Mi chava trabaja en Asociaciones Civiles (tipo OSALs/ONGs) y es un reto pedir donativos, por lo que es comĂșn pedir âCuotas de recuperaciĂłnâ pues ayudan a valorar mĂĄs el servicio, y a que fluya el donativo. Creo que se puede hacer algo asĂ en el cĂłdigo libre, apelando a diferentes motivadores en los usuarios.
Hacer software cĂłdigo opensource es desafiante y paulatinamente desgasta a su autor. Todo comienza con pasiĂłn y entusiasmo, por supuesto. Si logras repercusiĂłn, te enfrentas a una carrera de fondo que muchos terminan abandonando por las demandas constantes de usuarios que, a menudo, no valoran el trabajo ni contribuyen de manera significativa. Por mencionar un caso reciente: Hector Martin. LĂder del proyecto Asahi Linux, quien dedicĂł años a adaptar Linux para los procesadores Apple Silicon, un logro tĂ©cnico impresionante. Sin embargo, terminĂł renunciando debido a la presiĂłn de usuarios que exigĂan soporte y mejoras como si fueran clientes pagos.
La mayorĂa de los mantenedores no reciben ningĂșn soporte econĂłmico. Solo unos pocos proyectos logran sostenibilidad financiera a travĂ©s de patrocinios, mientras que la mayorĂa de los desarrolladores terminan con un segundo empleo no remunerado.
Sin un cambio en la forma en que se valora y apoya los proyectos Opensource, y no solo hablo de las grandes empresas multimillonarias. SerĂa una perdida para todos si acabaremos con un ecosistema de software archivado y abandonado.
Ahora te paso la pelota a ti, Âżcuando fue la Ășltima vez que apoyaste a un mantenedor de software opensource?
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Es ist immer noch so Ă€hnlich. Da kommen so viele verschiedene Ebenen innerhalb und auĂerhalb der TYPO3-Umgebung zusammen, dass man sich wundert.
Und die TYPO3-Core-Entwickler nehmen gefĂŒhlt jeden fancy Shice mit, den sie gerade finden. Das reiĂt dann immer wieder Prozesse ein oder es muss ein gigantischer Aufwand betrieben werden, damit âgrundlegendeâ Funktionen wieder hergestellt werden.
In den Kommentaren ist dann immer nur zu lesen âTja, Pech. Gibtâs nicht mehr. Sei froh, dass wir âne undokumentierte Schnittstelle dazu im Code versteckt haben. Bauâs dir selbst.â
Und der OpenSource-Gedanke ist bei einigen Erweiterungen (die als Quasi-Standard gelten) auch nur noch zu erahnen. Da mĂŒssen teilweise Abos abgeschlossen werden, damit einige Funktionen genutzt werden können.
Es wird auf jeden Fall nie langweilig.
Die Bastelei am TxtwtReader geht gut voran. Neben diversen Filtern und Ansichten werden Unterhaltungen nun schön strukturiert angezeigt. Jetzt mĂŒsste ich mich auch mal um das Verfassen von EintrĂ€gen kĂŒmmern. Wenn ich mit dem Projekt zufrieden bin, lasse ich es vielleicht auch auf die Welt los. #OpenSource
@prologic@twtxt.net Itâs opensource. You can run the software in your localhost or server. Cloud service is a free option.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Non-ASCII characters were broken. Like U+2028, degrees (°), etc.
Turns out I used a silly library to detect the encoding and transform to UTF-8 if needed. When there is no Content-Type header, like for local files, it looks at the first 1024 bytes. Since it only saw ASCII in that region, the damn thing assumed the data to be in Windows-1252 (which for web pages kinda makes sense):
// TODO: change default depending on user's locale?
return charmap.Windows1252, "windows-1252", false
https://cs.opensource.google/go/x/net/+/master:html/charset/charset.go;l=102
This default is hardcoded and cannot be changed.
Trying to be smart and adding automatic support for other encodings turned out to be a bad move on my end. At least I can reduce my dependency list again. :-)
I now just reject everything that explicitly specifies something different than text/plain
and an optional charset other than utf-8
(ignoring casing). Otherwise I assume itâs in UTF-8 (just like the twtxt file format specification mandates) and hope for the best.
On the blog: Amateur Stenography https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/28/steno.html #education #technology #opensource #typing
Inkscape 1.0rc1 released on April 9, 2020 https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0rc1/ #illustration #graphicarts #svg #opensource
Inkscape 1.0rc1 released on April 9, 2020 https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0rc1/ #illustration #graphicarts #svg #opensource
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: A Free Culture License Wish List https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/29/copyleft.html #license #meta #opensource #freesoftware #gpl #creativecommons #copyleft
The decline of GPL? â https://opensource.com/article/17/2/decline-gpl
The decline of GPL? â https://opensource.com/article/17/2/decline-gpl