Licensing kerfuffles have long been a defining facet of the commercial open source space. Some of the biggest vendors have switched to a more restrictive “copyleft” license, as Grafana and Element have done, or gone full proprietary, as HashiCorp did last year with Terraform. But one $ 8 billion company has gone the other way. […]
Some startups are going ‘fair source’ to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing
With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $ 3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s designed to bridge the open and proprietary worlds, replete with new definition, terminology, and governance model. Developer software company Sentry recently introduced […]
Online, led by social media, overtakes TV as the most popular source of news in the UK, Ofcom says
The newspaper business has been in the middle of a long and slow decline thanks to the rise of the internet. Now some new research out of the U.K. lays bare how TV news is facing a similar fate. Online platforms have now overtaken TV for the first time as the most popular resource for […]
All Hands AI raises $5M to build open source agents for developers
At its best, programming is a creative endeavor, but in this age of shifting everything left, much of a developer’s day is filled with what All Hands AI co-founder and CEO Robert Brennan calls the “toil-oriented task” like writing unit tests, managing dependencies and keeping documentation up to date. AI, on the other hand, may […]
Accel, Docker and Redis will discuss what’s next in open source as a business model at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
As companies grapple with the challenge of developing a sustainable business without sacrificing their core principles, open source has evolved from a niche approach to software development into the business model of many successful tech companies. Its principles of transparency and collaboration have fueled innovation, but balancing these ideals with the practical demands of leading […]