Open Source Stories for 2023

2023 and 'the Eternal Struggle Between Proprietary and Open Source Software' 55
What Comes After Open Source? Bruce Perens Is Working On It 89
FSF Shares Holiday Fairy Tale Warning 'Don't Let Your Tools Control You' 25
Iterate.ai Open Sources a New AI System That Can Recognize Weapons 42
Study Shows 38% of Java Apps Still Affected By Log4Shell 25
Mistral Says Mixtral, Its New Open Source LLM, Matches or Outperforms Llama 2 70B and GPT3.5 on Most Benchmarks 20
How AlmaLinux's Community Supported RHEL Binary Compatibility 41
Apple Launches MLX Machine-Learning Framework For Apple Silicon 31
Veteran Editors Notepad++ and Geany Hit Milestone Versions 21
NotePad++ 20th Anniversary Edition Includes New 'Multi-Edit' Feature 56
OpenZFS Fixes Data Corruption Issue 39
Meta Says There's Been No Downside To Sharing AI Technology 30
Roundcube Open-Source Webmail Software Merges With Nextcloud 14
Continuing Commitment to Open Access, CERN Launches New Open Source Program Office 6
How Python's New Security Developer Hopes To Help All Software Supply Chains 23
FreeBSD 14 Released 38
Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form 'High Performance Software Foundation' 5
The FSF Condemns Unauthorized Derivatives of GNU Licenses 53
Meta Taps Hugging Face For Startup Accelerator To Spur Adoption of Open Source AI Models 8
How Red Hat Divided the Open Source Community 191
When Linux Spooked Microsoft: Remembering 1998's Leaked 'Halloween Documents' 59
Bcachefs Merged Into the Linux 6.7 Kernel 39
Unless Open Source Evolves, HashiCorp CEO Predicts OSS-Free Silicon Valley 84
OpenBSD 7.4 Released 8
AlmaLinux Stays Red Hat Enterprise Linux Compatible Without Red Hat Code 34
Report Finds Few Open Source Projects are Actively Maintained 53
Europe Mulls Open Sourcing TETRA Emergency Services' Encryption Algorithms 18
Terraform Fork Gets Renamed OpenTofu, Joins Linux Foundation 30
WordPress Blogs Can Now Be Followed in the Fediverse, Including Mastodon 23
Terraform By Hashicorp Forked To OpenTF 24
Linux 6.5 Kernel Released 26
The Future of Open Source is Still Very Much in Flux 49
'The Open Source Licensing War is Over' 128
Popular Open-Source Project Moq Criticized For Quietly Collecting Data 30
Jon 'maddog' Hall Defends Red Hat's Re-Licensing of RHEL 101
Vim's Creator Bram Moolenaar Dies at Age 62 62
Meta Releases AudioCraft AI Tool To Create Music From Text 25
Pixar, Adobe, Apple and Others Form Alliance For OpenUSD To Drive Open Standards For 3D Content 45
Building a Better Server? Oxide Computer Ships Its First Rack 29
Hugging Face, GitHub and More Unite To Defend Open Source in EU AI Legislation 19
RHEL Response Discussed by SFC Conference's Panel - Including a New Enterprise Linux Standard 66
'Meta's Newly Released Large Language Model Llama-2 Is Not Open Source' 27
When Open Becomes Opaque: the Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies 62
If VanMoof eBikes Locks You Out of Your Own Bike, a Rival Company's App Could Help 64
Red Hat's Decision Prompts Outrage and Sympathy, Called 'Necessary' and 'Embarrassing' 118
Meta To Release Open-Source Commercial AI Model To Compete With OpenAI, Google 16
AlmaLinux No Longer Aims For 1:1 Compatibility With RHEL 39
Oracle Takes On Red Hat In Linux Code Fight 129
AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare 127
Defying Red Hat, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux Vow to Continue RHEL-Compatible Updates 143
Linux Foundation's Yocto Project Expands LTS to 4 Years 4
The ReactOS Project Suddenly Shows Signs of Life 38
Microsoft's GitHub Under Fire For DDoSing Crucial Open Source Project Website 51
Linux Foundation Celebrates Zephyr Project's Small Real-Time Operating System 30
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Sources Will Now Be Available To Paying Customers Only 143
America's FTC Requests Comments on Cloud Computing. FSF Urges Privacy and Freedom 13
Meta Open Sources An AI-Powered Music Generator 39
Debian 12 'Bookworm' Released 62
Linux Foundation Announces Collaboration for 'Open Radio Access Network' Prototypes 20
Can Open Source Speed the Adoption of Clean-Energy Microgrids? 38
Amazon's AWS is 'Retiring' Its Open-Source-and-on-GitHub Documentation 21
Big Tech Isn't Prepared for AI's Next Chapter: Open Source 37
Red Hat is Dropping Its Support for LibreOffice 141
'RISE' Project Building Open Source RISC-V Software Announced by Linux Foundation Europe 11
Peplum: F/OSS Distributed Parallel Computing and Supercomputing At Home With Ruby Infrastructure 20
Bitwarden Moves Into Passwordless Security 16
Bluesky Social Just Took a Big Open-Source Step Forward 17
OpenAI Readies New Open-Source AI Model 42
Somehow Amazon's Open Source Fork of ElasticSearch Has Succeeded 23
Despite Layoffs, Open Source and Linux Skills are Still in Demand 36
'EU's Cyber Resilience Act Contains a Poison Pill for Open Source Developers' 86
UFO Hunters Built an Open-Source AI System To Scan the Skies 72
AMD Will Replace AGESA With Open Source Initialization Library 'openSIL' 9
Linux Foundation Announces DentOS 3.0, an Open Source Network OS for Disaggregated Networks 15
Red Hat's 30th Anniversary: How a Microsoft Competitor Rose from an Apartment-Based Startup 47
Long-time Slashdot Reader Announces Open Source, Java-Based, Full-Stack Web Development Framework 81
Another Open Source Alternative to ChatGPT Released by Hugging Face 12
Linux Kernel 6.3 Released 16
FSF Calls On the IRS To Provide Libre Tax-Filing Software 111
Stability AI Launches StableLM, an Open Source ChatGPT Alternative 17
Python's PyPI Will Sell 'Organization Accounts' to Corporate Projects to Fund Staff 14
KaOS Linux Celebrates 10 Years with New ISO Release Featuring Pre-Release KDE Plasma 6 11
Python Foundation Raises Concerns Over EU's Proposed Cybersecurity Rules 40
Google's Free Assured Open Source Software Service Hits General Availability 24
Libreboot Founder's 'Minifree' Sells Free-Software Laptops with Libreboot Preinstalled 20
Raspberry Pi Launches Online Code Editor to Help Kids Learn 28
ECMAScript 2023 Spec for JavaScript Includes New Methods for Arrays 34
FSF Awards 'Respects Your Freedom' Certification to ThinkPenguin's Gigabit Mini VPN Router 6
Twitter Opens Much of Its Source Code To the Global Community 70
Open Source Espresso Machine Is One Delicious Rabbit Hole Inside Another 35
FSF Honors Emacs Co-Maintainer, 'Replicant' Developer, and Videoconferencing Tool Jami 6
OpenAI Admits ChatGPT Leaked Some Payment Data, Blames Open-Source Bug 22
Russian Developers Blocked From Contributing To FOSS Tools 170
Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Open Source Its Recommendation Code on March 31 69
Godot Arrives In the Epic Games Store 28
TomTom Joins the OpenStreetMap Foundation As Its First Platinum Member 21
DreamWorks' OpenMoonRay Renderer Code Published 9
All-Open Source 7-Inch MNT Reform Pocket Laptop Ships In October 36
Stack Overflow Survey Finds Most-Proven Technologies: Open Source, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning 70
Will AMD's 'openSIL' Library Enable Open-Source Silicon Initialization With Coreboot? 29
Who Writes Linux and Open Source Software? 60
NASA Launches 'Open-Source Science Initiative', Urges Adoption of Open Science 13
At Least One Open Source Vulnerability Found In 84% of Code Bases, Report Finds 33
KDE Plasma 5.27 Released 18
'Mycroft' Open-Source Voice Assistant Out of Funds, Can't Fulfill Remaining Kickstarter Rewards 46
An AI Company Using Stolen Code Is Trying To Silence the Person Who Found Out 80
Red Hat Gives an ARM Up To OpenShift Kubernetes Operations 13
Google Expands Open Source Bounties, Will Soon Support Javascript Fuzzing Too 6
PikaOS Is a Next-Gen Linux Distribution Aimed Specifically Towards Gamers 48
New Distro 'blendOS' Combines Arch Linux, Fedora Linux and Ubuntu 73
The Linux Foundation Reflects on Open Source's Role in Climate Change Challenges 28
Lawsuit Accusing Copilot of Abusing Open-Source Code Challenged by GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI 60
EU's Proposed CE Mark for Software Could Have Dire Impact on Open Source 104
Google Releases Flutter 3.7, Teases Future of App Development Framework 24
Hobbyist's Experiment Creates a Self-Soldering Circuit Board 114
Linux Foundation's New 'Open Metaverse Foundation' Launches 41
Pioneering Apple Lisa Goes 'Open Source' Thanks To Computer History Museum 81
Google To Allow Rust Code In the Chromium Browser 23
Native Americans Ask Apache Foundation To Change Name 339
The Fairphone 2 Will Hit End-of-Life After 7 Years of Updates 20
X11 Server Development Pace Hits a Two Decade Low 108
Will Gaming Become More Open in 2023? 42