181029756
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internet-redstar writes:
Nearly a trillion dollars has been wiped from software stocks in 2026, with hedge funds making billions shorting Salesforce, HubSpot, and Atlassian. At FOSDEM 2026, cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg shut down his bug bounty program after AI-generated slop overwhelmed his team. A new article on HackerNoon argues that most commercial SaaS could inevitably become OpenSource, not out of ideology but economics. The author points to Proxmox replacing VMware at enterprise scale and startups like Holosign replicating DocuSign at $19/month flat as evidence. The catch, the article claims: maintainers who refuse to embrace AI tools risk being forked, or simply replicated from scratch, by those who do.
180655774
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internet-redstar writes:
An independent musician has released a full-length album inspired by Linux, GNU, and Free Software culture, making all tracks available directly from the project website under a Creative Commons CC-BY license.
The album can be downloaded in open formats including FLAC, MP3, and Opus, and is explicitly intended to be reused for talks, videos, streams, and remixes with attribution.
"Free by Design" will appear on major streaming platforms at the start of FOSDEM, but it was intentionally released first outside of closed platforms to encourage direct access and reuse.
176891947
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internet-redstar writes:
The Belgian government has announced a “Freedom Fee” on commercial software developed in the U.S. The 17.76% tariff — yes, seriously — will apply to proprietary software licenses sold or deployed within Belgium. Open-source software? 100% exempt, no fishes included.
171229924
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internet-redstar writes:
In little longer than 1 year, RHEL7 and CentOS 7 will go EOL. Large enterprises with thousands of these servers are struggling to meet that deadline. Now they also have the option to use Project78 from Linux Belgium which offers a Cloud and OnPrem version to aid in the transition to RHEL 8 or Rocky Linux 8. It promises a 100% success rate for in-place OS upgrading and a 95% success rate for application migrations in a Upgrade-as-a-Service package.
106447608
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internet-redstar writes:
The Tesla Hacker, Jasper Nuyens — who uncovered Tesla's 'unconfirmed lane change' last year — now launched at FOSDEM an OpenSource project called 'FreedomEV' to run on top of rooted Tesla's. It adds new features to it such as: 'Hotspot Mode' for in-car WiFi and 'Cloak Mode' to prevent all tracking of your location and more. It hopes to become available for other cars too. Full presentation video can be found here. The github project and the website. He is looking for contributors and support from Tesla.
