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My take on open source licenses : spf13.com

SPF13

My take on open source licenses. Open Source licensing can be a confusing and daunting task. Most developers simply adopt licenses of other popular projects. Most developers simply adopt licenses of other popular projects. Both licenses are very similar. Open source.

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Observe links end-user experience with back-end troubleshooting

Network World

Using open-source agents and OpenTelemetry-based software development kits (SDK) to collect data from browsers and mobile applications, Frontend Observability can monitor application performance and collect data that will help IT teams correlate frontend performance problems with backend services, according to Observe.

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DeepSeek’s new open-source colossus upends the AI status quo

Dataconomy

No polished blog posts. Just a massive set of model weights, an MIT license, and a few technical whispers that were enough to set the AI community ablaze. DeepSeek, however, opted for its trademark under-the-radar approach, quietly uploading 641 GB of data under an MIT license. No splashy press briefings.

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Our Freemium Future: Development teams take advantage of free, entry-level versions of software 

CTOvision

Either home-grown or licensed from a vendor who billed you for maintenance at periodic intervals? While they seem similar, it’s worth saying at this juncture that freemium and open source are not the same thing. Freemium software can be based on open source code, but the code inside the freemium software is not exposed.

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Dispute between Elastic and AWS highlights ongoing battle over open source business model

GeekWire

Open source software (OSS) started as a reaction to companies like Microsoft and Oracle making “unfair” profits on software, so developers created Linux and MySQL and made them available to anyone for free. AWS is profiting from open source, and Elastic is very mad. Now OSS has gone full circle.

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One-twelfth of Automattic staff leave over WordPress-WP Engine spat

CIO Business Intelligence

As Mullenweg blogged with a certain amount of understatement , “It became clear a good chunk of my Automattic colleagues disagreed with me and our actions.” On Thursday, Oct. 3, WP Engine responded with a lawsuit accusing Automattic of attempted extortion, as CIO.com reported last week.

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Things get nasty in lawsuit between WordPress.org and WP Engine

CIO Business Intelligence

After years of nasty back and forth accusations between WordPress hosting provider WP Engine (WPE) and WordPress.org, the open source project that provides the software, on Wednesday WPE sued WordPress.org in federal court, accusing WordPress.org, which is affiliated with a for-profit company called Automattic, of trying to extort money from it.