Open Source Stories for 2021

Rare Recordings of 1994 Talks By a 24-Year-Old Linus Torvalds Re-Discovered 34
Will It Take More Than Open Source Funding To Prevent the Next Log4j? 110
White House Enlists Software Industry To Improve Open-Source Security 63
Who's Paying to Fix Open Source Software? 142
Intel's Mystery Linux Muckabout is a Dangerous Ploy at a Dangerous Time 80
The European Commission is Making its Software Open Source To Benefit Society 24
Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based On Mastodon 228
HashiCorp's IPO Will Place It Among the Most Richly Valued Open Source Tech Companies 26
Addressing 'Bus Factor', PHP Gets a Foundation 69
Bilibili, China's YouTube, Joins the Open Invention Network 7
France Expands Open Source Use, Seeking Interoperability, 'Digital Sovereignty', and 'Democratic Confidence' 24
Penpot, the Vector Design Web-app Taking On Figma and Canva With FOSS, Hits Beta 55
System76 Engineer Confirms Work on New Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based on GNOME 125
OneAPI/L0, OpenVINO and OpenCL Coming To WSL2 For Intel GPUs 6
Linux Foundation Adds Software Supply Chain Security To LFX 12
Why Aren't There More Open Source Solutions for Mobile Devices? 90
Mastodon Puts Trump's Social Network On Notice For Improperly Using Its Code 134
'Inside Microsoft's Open Source Program Office' 47
Trump's Truth App Bans Criticism of Itself - and Also 'Excessive Use of Capital Letters' 225
'Best Open Source Software of 2021' Identified by InfoWorld Listicle 58
After Open Source Community Outcry, Microsoft Reverses Controversial .NET Change 56
$28B Startup Says Companies Were Refusing Their Free Open-Source Code as 'Not Enterprise-Ready' 49
Intel Open-sources AI-powered Tool To Spot Bugs in Code 26
Trump's TRUTH Social May Violate Terms of Open-Source Code It's Built On 254
Jack Dorsey Says Square May Build Open-Source Bitcoin Mining System 31
PowerPC Fork of Firefox Reaches End of the Road 50
OpenBSD 7.0 Released 56
Microsoft's .NET Foundation Under Fire As Resigning Board Member Questions Its Role 45
FSF Announces 'JShelter' Browser Privacy Extension to Block Fingerprinting, Tracking, and Malware 40
Linus Torvalds On Community, Rust and Linux's Longevity 33
New Windows 11 Install Script Bypasses TPM, System Requirements 161
Linux Foundation Survey Shows Companies Desperate To Hire Open-Source Talent 51
Is 2021 The Year of the Linux Desktop? 192
Richard Stallman Shares His Concerns About GitHub's Copilot -- and About GitHub 45
Travis CI Flaw Exposed Secrets of Thousands of Open Source Projects 28
Amazon Renames Its Open Source Fork of ElasticSearch 'Amazon OpenSearch Service' 11
Linux For Apple Silicon Macs Gets Closer To Reality 53
Torvalds Merges Support for Microsoft's NTFS File System, Complains GitHub 'Creates Absolutely Useless Garbage Merges' 77
The Open Source Initiative Names Stefano Maffulli As Its First Executive Director 10
Microsoft Joins Open Infrastructure Foundation 28
Torvalds: GPLv2 'A Big Part' of Why Linux Spread, Companies Getting Involved 'Hugely Important' 144
After 18 Years, SCO's IBM Litigation May Be Settled for $14.5 Million 151
Former Loki Developer Jerryrigs a Multiplayer Zork, Available Via Telnet 53
ByteDance, TikTok's Parent Company, Joins the Open Invention Network 12
Debian 11 'Bullseye' Released As Stable 40
Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation 2.13 Facilitates Quick Reaction To Kernel/User-space Instrumentation Hits 6
ElasticSearch Keeps Fighting Open Source Fork by Amazon AWS 161
Paragon Is Working To Get Its nfs3 Filesystem Into the Linux Kernel 73
Free Software Foundation Will Fund Papers on Issues Around Microsoft's 'GitHub Copilot' 111
After YouTube-dl Incident, GitHub's DMCA Process Now Includes Free Legal Help 30
Does the Open Source Movement Need to Evolve? 72
Repairable, Modular Framework Laptop Begins Shipping 112
Audacity's New Owner Is In Another Fight With the Open Source Community 48
Amazon Promises Most Echo Speakers Will Support the Matter Smart Home Platform 18
Stockfish Sues ChessBase 21
Amazon's Elasticsearch Fork 'OpenSearch' Reaches General Availability 1.0 Milestone 49
'By 2030, You Won't Own Any Gadgets' 259
Libre-SOC's Open Hardware 180nm ASIC Submitted To IMEC for Fabrication 38
Experimental Rust Support Patches Submitted to Linux Kernel Mailing List 55
No, Open Source Audacity Audio Editor Is Not 'Spyware' 125
Is Open Source Audio Editor Audacity 'Spyware'? 203
Free Software Foundation Announces 'Next Step' for Improving Board Governance 71
FSF Prioritizes Creation of a Free-Software eBook Reader, Urges Avoiding DRM eBooks 65
Mixed Reactions to GitHub's AI-Powered Pair Programmer 'Copilot' 39
Linux Foundation's New 'OVN Network' Pushes Open Standards for AI-Powered Voice Apps 9
Linux 5.13 Kernel Released, Includes Apple M1 Support, Clang CFI, and Landlock's Linux Security Module 33
Rocky Linux 8.4 Achieves First General Availability Release, Proves Popular 40
Ubuntu-maker Canonical Will Support Open Source Blender on Windows, Mac, and Linux 24
Open Source AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution Impresses In PC Game Tests 35
A Real Estate Mogul Will Spend $100 Million to Fix Social Media Using Blockchain 93
Google Open-Sources Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Toolkit 78
KDE Plasma 5.22 Released 13
Google Releases 'Open Source Insights' Dependency Visualization Tool 11
GCC Will No Longer Require Copyrights Be Assigned to the FSF 70
Now Generally Available: Microsoft's Open Source Java Distribution, 'Microsoft Build of OpenJDK' 71
Free Software Foundation's Executive Director Resigns 41
Redditors Aim to 'Free Science' From For-Profit Publishers 63
Former Microsoft Developer Would Like To See MS-DOS Open Sourced 113
Google Unveils Site Showcasing Google-Approved Open Source Tools and Tutorials for Google-Technology Developers 12
Microsoft Releases SimuLand, a Lab Environment To Simulate Attacker Tradecraft 10
Microsoft Releases SimuLand, a Lab Environment To Simulate Attacker Tradecraft 9
Amid Public Pressure Audacity Says It Will Not Collect Telemetry Data From Users 79
System76 Unveils Open Source 'Launch Configurable Keyboard' for Linux, Windows, and macOS 61
Linus Torvalds Weighs in on Commercial Users of Open Source Code 87
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Agriculture Infrastructure Project 20
What3Words Sends Legal Threat To a Security Researcher For Sharing an Open-Source Alternative 141
Linus Torvalds Reflects In New Interview on Linux's Earliest Days 51
The FSF Clarifies Richard Stallman's Role 127
Greg Kroah-Hartman Rejects Apology from University of Minnesota Researchers 140
Flying On Mars Fueled With Open-Source Software 44
Openwall Releases 'Linux Kernel Runtime Guard' 0.9.0 7
FreeBSD 13 Released 66
Inspur, China's Largest Cloud Hardware Vendor, Joins Open-Source Patent Consortium 7
The FSF Doubles Down On Restoring RMS After His Non-Apology Apology 517
Google Open-Sources Lyra In Beta To Reduce Voice Call Bandwidth Usage 30
Open-Source Software Becomes a Standard In Dortmund, Germany 42
Richard Stallman's Return Denounced by the EFF, Tor Project, Mozilla, and the Creator of Rust 640
UNIX's Founders Created Another OS at Bell Labs: 'Plan 9' 135
'Open Source Initiative' Stops Collaboration With FSF Over Richard Stallman's Return 350
Open Collective Launches Funds that Financially Support Open-Source Communities 5
FreeBSD's Close Call: How Flawed Code Almost Made It Into the Kernel 60
Red Hat Pulls Free Software Foundation Funding Over Richard Stallman's Return 459
Linus Torvalds On Where Rust Will Fit Into Linux 115
Free Software Advocates Seek Removal of Richard Stallman and Entire FSF Board 495
GNOME 40 Released 49
Three Flaws in the Linux Kernel Since 2006 Could Grant Root Privileges 94
Open-Source App Lets Anyone Create a Virtual Army of Hackintoshes 31
Researchers Launch Open-Source Website To Hunt Down Capitol Insurrectionists 500
MIPS Technologies Joins RISC-V, Moves To Open-Source ISA Standard 82
Torvalds Warns the World: Don't Use the Linux 5.12-rc1 Kernel 124
Microsoft Launches Power Fx, a New Open Source Low-Code Language 86
Exploring the Open Source That Really Goes Into a RISC-V Chip 32
Top Banks Join Linux and Open-Source Patent Protection Group 14
Should You Block Connections to Your Network From Foreign Countries? 134
Did Linux Kill Commercial Unix? 280
VLC Will Get a New UI This Year With 4.0 Launch 114
FreeBSD and Its Code of Conduct Anniversary 91
AlmaLinux Releases Beta of Their CentOS/RHEL 8 Fork 13
Mac Utility Homebrew Finally Gets Native Apple Silicon and M1 Support 43
The Open-Source Magma Project Will Become 5G's Linux 28
VideoLAN, Maker of Popular Media Player VLC, Turns 20 53
While Recreating CentOS as 'Rocky Linux', Gregory Kurtzer Also Launches a Sponsoring Startup 63
Pyston 2.1 Is Blowing Past Python 3 Performance 72
The Ethical Source Movement Launches a New Kind of Open-Source Organization 258
Why AWS Is Forking Elasticsearch and Kibana 47
The English Language Wikipedia Just Had Its Billionth Edit 43
OpenWRT Forum User Data Stolen In Weekend Data Breach 16
Jamie Zawinski Calls Cinnamon Screensaver Lock-Bypass Bug 'Unconscionable' 172
The Linux Foundation Now Offers a Suite of Open-Source Management Classes 7
Rediscovering RISC-V: Apple M1 Sparks Renewed Interest in Non-x86 Architecture 202
Wasmer 1.0 Can Run WebAssembly 'Universal Binaries' on Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android, and iOS 72
Linux Mint 20.1 Long-term Support Release Is Out 21
Open-Source Developer and Manager David Recordon Named White House Director of Technology 51