Thoughts on IBM's acquisition of Red Hat
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<div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><h3>Summary</h3> <p>As a developer and user of open source code, you interact with software and digital media every…
A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development.
TL;DR: The big tech AI company LLMs have gobbled up all of our data, but the damage they have done to open source and free culture communities are particularly insidious. By taking advantage of those who share freely, they destroy the bargain that made free software spread like wildfire.
NOTE: This post was published based on a draft of the EU AI Act. The official version of the EU AI Act uses slightly different section numbers than the leaked draft discussed below, and it has been…
Why I'm Switching from MIT to AGPL and from CC BY-NC to CC BY-SA after a conversation with Dr. Matt Lee about copyleft licensing and protecting free software from corporate exploitation.