Open Source Stories for 2022

Other Software Projects Are Now Trying to Replicate ChatGPT 20
Systemd's Growth Over 2022 236
FSF Warns: Stay Away From iPhones, Amazon, Netflix, and Music Steaming Services 199
Rust-GPU Project Now Supports SPIR-V Ray-tracing 17
Linux Foundation's 'AgStack Project' Plans First Dataset of the World's Agricultural Field Boundaries 19
Google is Making Its Internal Video-Blurring Privacy Tool Open Source 5
OpenAI Releases Point-E, an AI For 3D Modeling 12
Xfce 4.18 Is Released 32
As GitHub Retires 'Atom', Open Source 'Pulsar' Continues Its Legacy 24
Linux Foundation Announces an Open Map Project and 'Open Metaverse Foundation' 32
PineTab 2 Is Another Try At a Linux-Based Tablet, Without the 2020 Supply Crunch 36
Z-Wave Alliance Says Z-Wave Source Code Project Is Complete, Now Open And Widely Available To Members 51
Amazon Joins Open Invention Network 4
Company 'Hijacks' Blender's CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User 74
Free Software Foundation Publishes Its 2022 'Ethical Tech Giving Guide' 16
AI-Assisted Coding Start-Up Kite Is Saying Farewell and Open-Sourcing Its Code 32
AMD Finally Opens Up Its Radeon Raytracing Analyzer 'RRA' Source Code 4
Authors Offer Free Downloads for New Second Edition of 'Designing with LibreOffice' Book 36
The Creator of Homebrew's Plan To Get Open Source Contributors Paid - Using Blockchain 44
Thanks To Open Source, 5G Cracks 50% of the Telecom Market 25
LF Europe's Project Sylva Wants To Create an Open Source Telco Cloud Stack 7
Unpaid Volunteers At CyanogenMod Successor LineageOS Maintain Builds For Old Android Devices 17
Microsoft's GitHub Copilot Sued Over 'Software Piracy on an Unprecedented Scale' 97
New Hampshire Set To Pilot Voting Machines That Use Open-Source Software 111
The Godot Game Engine Now Has Its Own Foundation 19
Bumble Open Sourced Its AI That Detects Unsolicited Nudes 49
Zeek Becoming Part of Microsoft Windows 21
Google Announces GUAC Open-Source Project On Software Supply Chains 2
OpenBSD 7.2 Released 21
Fintech Giant 'The Clearing House' Joins Open-Source Patent Protection Powerhouse OIN 6
Pine64 Announces 'Sub-$10, Linux-Capable' SBC - the Ox64 90
Intel CTO Wants Developers To Build Once, Run On Any GPU 58
VLC-Developer VideoLAN Sends Legal Notice To Indian Ministries Over Ban 12
Linux 6.0 Arrives With Support For Newer Chips, Core Fixes, and Oddities 26
Debian Chooses Reasonable, Common Sense Solution To Dealing With Non-Free Firmware 65
OpenAI Open-Sources Whisper, a Multilingual Speech Recognition System 15
Senators Introduce a Bill To Protect Open-Source Software 35
Document Foundation Starts Charging For 'Free' LibreOffice on Apple App Store 59
Nearly One In Two Industry Pros Scaled Back Open Source Use Over Security Fears 60
Linux Foundation Announces the OpenWallet Foundation To Develop Interoperable Digital Wallets 17
PyTorch Becomes Part of the Linux Foundation 9
NASA Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions 54
The EU's AI Act Could Have a Chilling Effect On Open Source Efforts 45
The EU's AI Act Could Have a Chilling Effect on Open Source Efforts, Experts Warn 68
'What Happened with CentOS Will Not Happen with Rocky Linux' 47
Debian Replaces Google with DuckDuckGo as Chromium's Default Search Engine 43
Debian Considers Changing How It Handles Non-Free Firmware 94
Free, Secure, and Open-Source: How FileZilla is Making an Old School Protocol Cool Again 41
How W4 Plans To Monetize the Godot Game Engine Using Red Hat's Open Source Playbook 8
NetBSD 9.3: A 2022 OS That Can Run On Late-1980s Hardware 41
Microsoft is Open-Sourcing Its Emoji 13
NVIDIA Publishes 73k Lines Worth Of 3D Header Files For Fermi Through Ampere GPUs 6
Development Suddenly Resumes on Linux Distro CutefishOS 7
DreamWorks Animation To Release Renderer As Open-Source Software 30
Will the US Army, Not Meta, Build an 'Open' Metaverse? 35
Coding Mistake Made Intel GPUs 100X Slower in Ray Tracing 59
Can Google's New Programming Language 'Carbon' Replace C++ Better Than Rust? 185
Microsoft Changes Policy Against the Sale of Open Source Software in the Microsoft Store 34
Can a Fork Save Cutefish OS (or Its Desktop)? 109
Dissecting Microsoft's Proposed Policy To Ban Commercial Open-Source Apps 51
DARPA Is Worried About How Well Open-Source Code Can Be Trusted 85
Red Hat Names New CEO 16
Is Amazon's AWS Quietly Getting Better at Contributing to Open Source? 8
Will Microsoft Ban Commercial Open Source from Its App Store? 54
Baserow Challenges Airtable With an Open Source No-Code Database Platform 19
Gtk 5 Might Drop X.11 Support, Says GNOME Dev 145
Pine64 Is Working On a RISC-V Single-Board Computer 43
Software Freedom Conservancy Quits GitHub 45
MNT Shrinks Its Open Source Reform Laptop Into a 7-Inch Pocket PC Throwback 23
Linus Torvalds Is Cautiously Optimistic About Bringing Rust Into Linux Kernel's Next Release 123
How a Turkish Municipal District Switched to GNU/Linux 76
New Linux Foundation Podcast: 'Untold Stories of Open Source' 13
Microsoft Updates Store Rules To Ban Paid Copycat Open-Source Projects 37
Linux Mint Takes Over Development of Backup Tool 'Timeshift' 14
Google's Plan to Make Chip Development More Like Open Source Software 41
Murena, the Privacy-First Android Smartphone, Arrives 62
Palm OS Developer Releases Source To Classic Games, 20+ Years After Release 22
ACM Digital Library Archive Is Open Access With 50 Years of Published Records 14
Software Freedom Conservancy Wins Big Step Forward For Open-Source Rights 18
Google Will Start Distributing a Security-Vetted Collection of Open-Source Software Libraries 28
Red Hat CEO: Remote Working is 'Just Another Day' to the Open Source World 35
White House Joins OpenSSF, Linux Foundation In Securing Open-Source Software 46
How Much Will It Cost To Secure Open-Source Software? OpenSSF Says $147.9 Million 9
Nvidia Transitioning To Official, Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Driver 102
(Mostly) Open Source SteamOS Forked into Homegrown ISO For Other Machines 22
GNOME Patent Troll Gets Stripped of Patent Rights 40
Twitter's Decentralized, Open-Source Offshoot Releases Its First Code 27
Nerd Sniping Convinces Microsoft To Open Source 3D Movie Maker from 1995 29
Fedora's Lead Speaks on the Popularity of Linux and the Importance of Open Source 68
Interactive Fiction Compiler 'Inform 7' Is Now Open Source 22
30,000 New Users Signed Up For Mastodon After Elon Musk Bought Twitter 217
Wolfire Games Open Sources 'Overgrowth' After 14 Years of Development 15
Should Companies Audit Their Software Stacks for Critical Open Source Dependencies? 52
Dirk Hohndel, Early Linux Contributor, Joins Foundation Supporting Blockchain Platform Cardano 38
Is GitHub Suspending the Accounts of Russian Developers at Sanctioned Companies? 159
Richard Stallman Calls for Software Package Systems that Help Maintain Your Freedoms 92
Richard Stallman Speaks on the State of Free Software, and Answers Questions 112
Solaris 11.4 Free For Open-Source Devs, Non-Production Use 51
OpenBB Wants To Be an Open Source Challenger To Bloomberg Terminal 34
'Open Source Protestware Harms Open Source' 101
Tech Casualties of Russia's War in Ukraine: Open Source and the Cloud? 93
The Free Software Foundation's 'LibrePlanet' Conference Happens Online This Weekend 4
Developers Debate Denying Updates for Open Source Software to Russia 95
False Advertising To Call Software Open Source When It's Not, Says Court 20
Arch Linux Turns 20 29
Red Hat Is Discontinuing Sales and Services In Russia and Belarus 49
Open Source Zone Grinds Away At Patent Trolls 30
The Free Software Foundation Appoints a New Executive Director 34
Linux Foundation's 'Census II' of Open Source Libraries Urges Support, Security, and Standardization 9
Hackers Demand NVIDIA Open Source Their Drivers Or They Leak More Data 75
Free Software Foundation Announces Five Papers Exploring Microsoft's 'GitHub Copilot' 39
Why Swift Creator Chris Lattner Stepped Down From Its Core Team This Week 98
Linus Torvalds Prepares to Move the Linux Kernel to Modern C 114
Linux Developers Patch Bugs Faster Than Microsoft, Apple, and Google, Study Shows 43
New Open Source-Loving Microsoft Celebrates .NET's 20th Anniversary 65
Valve Releases Steam Deck CAD Files Allowing Anyone To 3D-Print Custom Shells 16
KDE Plasma 5.24 Released 38
Intel Invests In Open-Source RISC-V Processors With a Billion Dollars In New Chip Foundries 41
GitHub Launches New Sponsors-Only Repositories 32
As Chile Drafts New Constitution, 'Citizen Proposals' Urge Free Software and User Freedom 32
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Software Development, Linux, and Git Certification 13
Developer Who Intentionally Corrupted His Libraries Wants NPM To Restore His Publishing Rights 251
Blender 3.0 Released With More New Features and Improvements 37
New FSF Procedures Let Its 5,000 'Associate Members' Nominate New Board Members 37
Open Source Developers, Who Work for Free, Are Discovering They Have Power 193
What Happened at the Hearing for New Hampshire's Free Software Law? 58
GitHub Restores Account of Developer Who Intentionally Corrupted His Libraries 193
Open Source Developer Intentionally Corrupts His Own Widely-Used Libraries 419
Libreboot.Org Urges Support for Proposed 'Free Software' Law in New Hampshire 112