#Meta to the #EU: “the 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 “open source”.”
Brilliant, sure, let’s 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 “How the European Union Fell Out of Love with Open-Source Software”:
“A 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 Microsoft’s monopoly. They almost succeeded. This article reveals how they managed to change the EU’s software policies, made Microsoft lobbyists work overtime - and in the end, and despite their best efforts, could not withstand the power of proprietary companies’ lobbying campaigns.
Drawing on the Multiple Streams Framework, the article explains the European Commission’s 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 EU’s policies.
In 2004, OSS advocates managed to frame the EU’s dependency on proprietary software as a problem – 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.”
25 years later we’re 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). ⌘ Read more
OSI publishes election retrospective
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has quietly published
“takeaways” from its internal retrospective on the recent board
of directors election as an update
to the March blog\
post 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 … ⌘ 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 … ⌘ Read more
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Hacer software código opensource es desafiante y paulatinamente desgasta a su autor. Todo comienza con pasión y entusiasmo, por supuesto. Si logras repercusión, 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. Líder del proyecto Asahi Linux, quien dedicó años a adaptar Linux para los procesadores Apple Silicon, un logro técnico impresionante. Sin embargo, terminó renunciando debido a la presión de usuarios que exigían soporte y mejoras como si fueran clientes pagos.
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[lang=es] definitivamente es una buena llamada de atención para promover más donaciones a proyectos opensource. La verdad apoyo menos proyectos de los que ‘debería’, por el valor que me ofrecen.
Una opinión pragmática es que hay la libertad de no pagar, pero también esto nos debería llevar a que tenemos la libertad de SÍ 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 común pedir ‘Cuotas de recuperación’ pues ayudan a valorar más el servicio, y a que fluya el donativo. Creo que se puede hacer algo así en el código libre, apelando a diferentes motivadores en los usuarios.
Hacer software código opensource es desafiante y paulatinamente desgasta a su autor. Todo comienza con pasión y entusiasmo, por supuesto. Si logras repercusión, 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. Líder del proyecto Asahi Linux, quien dedicó años a adaptar Linux para los procesadores Apple Silicon, un logro técnico impresionante. Sin embargo, terminó renunciando debido a la presión de usuarios que exigían soporte y mejoras como si fueran clientes pagos.
La mayoría de los mantenedores no reciben ningún soporte económico. Solo unos pocos proyectos logran sostenibilidad financiera a través de patrocinios, mientras que la mayoría 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. Sería una perdida para todos si acabaremos con un ecosistema de software archivado y abandonado.
Ahora te paso la pelota a ti, ¿cuando fue la última vez que apoyaste a un mantenedor de software opensource?
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@arne Ohjemine, TYPO3! O_o Lass mich schreiend davonlaufen!
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Es ist immer noch so ähnlich. Da kommen so viele verschiedene Ebenen innerhalb und außerhalb der TYPO3-Umgebung zusammen, dass man sich wundert.
Und die TYPO3-Core-Entwickler nehmen gefühlt jeden fancy Shice mit, den sie gerade finden. Das reißt dann immer wieder Prozesse ein oder es muss ein gigantischer Aufwand betrieben werden, damit “grundlegende” Funktionen wieder hergestellt werden.
In den Kommentaren ist dann immer nur zu lesen “Tja, Pech. Gibt’s nicht mehr. Sei froh, dass wir ‘ne undokumentierte Schnittstelle dazu im Code versteckt haben. Bau’s dir selbst.”
Und der OpenSource-Gedanke ist bei einigen Erweiterungen (die als Quasi-Standard gelten) auch nur noch zu erahnen. Da müssen 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 müsste ich mich auch mal um das Verfassen von Einträgen kümmern. Wenn ich mit dem Projekt zufrieden bin, lasse ich es vielleicht auch auf die Welt los. #OpenSource
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I am now using Streamlit at work to build admin interfaces and some internal application. It's amazing! I recommend it
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@prologic@twtxt.net It’s opensource. You can run the software in your localhost or server. Cloud service is a free option.
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Hmmmm, I somehow run into an encoding problem where my inserted data end up mangled in the database. But, both SQLite and Go use UTF-8. What's happening here? :-?
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@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 it’s in UTF-8 (just like the twtxt file format specification mandates) and hope for the best.
**RT by @mind_booster: Não se esqueçam! De 12 a 16 de Fevereiro há MiniDebConf em Lisboa!
https://pt2023.mini.debconf.org/
#Linux #Debian #SoftwareLivre #OpenSource**
Não se esqueçam! De 12 a 16 de Fevereiro há MiniDebConf em Lisboa!
The Pocket Casts mobile apps are now open source
Good news! The Pocket Casts mobile apps are now open source. ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: Tens interesse em contribuir para uma iniciativa que gere actividades práticas de partilha de conhecimento e experiências práticas sobre #Linux e #SoftwareLivre/#OpenSource?
Então vem conhecer-nos já no próximo Sábado dia 22 às 15:30, no @lxmill!
https://inauguracao.centrolinux.pt
Tens interesse em contribuir para uma iniciativa que gere actividades práticas de partilha de conhecimento e experiências práticas sobre #Linux e [#SoftwareLivre](https … ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: #CentroLinux #Inauguracao #Portugal #OpenSource #Ubuntu #Kinetic #InstallParty
https://inauguracao.centrolinux.pt/
#CentroLinux #Inauguracao #Portugal #OpenSource #Ubuntu #Kinetic [#InstallParty](https://nitter.net/search?q=%23 … ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: Prolongamos o prazo de inscrição nas IV #JornadasOpenSource até 7 de Set
Grande oportunidade de explorar, trocar ideias, experiências sobre gestão de software #OpenSource e quem sabe e iniciar novos projetos
👉Inscreva-se https://bit.ly/IVJornadasOS_Inscricoes
👉Programa https://bit.ly/BAD_IVJornadasOS
Prolongamos o prazo de inscrição nas IV #JornadasOpenSource até 7 de Set
Grande oportunidade de explorar, trocar ideias, experiências sobre g … ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: Quinta-feira, dia 11, vamos traduzir o Nextcloud @Nextclouders, presencial e online. #SoftwareLivre #OpenSource
Vê aqui como e onde participar⬇️
https://ansol.org/eventos/2022-08-11-traducoes-nextcloud/
Quinta-feira, dia 11, vamos traduzir o Nextcloud @Nextclouders, presencial e online. #SoftwareLivre #OpenSource
Vê aqui como e onde participar⬇️
[a … ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: 💡Open Call Inovação
🗓️ 10 Agosto 9:30 Evento Online
Mobilidade + acessível e inclusiva para Lisboa.
“soluções digitais em código aberto que respondam a desafios de mobilidade das comunidades mais vulneráveis na cidade de Lisboa”,
https://lisboaparapessoas.pt/2022/07/29/open-call-vox-pop-lisboa-emel-mobilidade-inclusiva/**
💡Open Call Inovação
🗓️ 10 Agosto 9:30 Evento Online
Mobilidade + acessível e inclusiva para Lisboa.
“soluções digitais em código aberto que r … ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: .@OpenSourceOrg to the European Commission: make space for patent-free standards too
some supposedly “open“ standards – including those ratified by SDOs like ISO, CEN and ETSI – can’t be implemented without buying a license
https://blog.opensource.org/osi-to-the-european-commission-make-space-for-patent-free-standards-too/**
. @OpenSourceOrg to the European Commission: make space for patent-free standards too
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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? ⌘ https://opensource.com/article/17/2/decline-gpl
The decline of GPL? ⌘ https://opensource.com/article/17/2/decline-gpl