Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH

How’s That Open Source Governance Working for You? | HackerNoon

Isn’t it weird that the radically democratic miracle of open-source collaboration is so full of monarchical dictatorships?

The Open Source Revolution Is Over – the Revolutionaries Won

Microsoft's $7.5 billion GitHub acquisition and IBM's $34 billion purchase of Red Hat mark the final end of open source's outlaw period. Light Reading looks at how open source went mainstream, and what the revolution means for business.

Open Source is Broken

The Open Source movement, as championed by the OSI, prizes absolute openness above all other concerns. Openness, they claim, is an absolute good, from which all other virtues flow, not to be questioned or criticized. It doesn’t matter if that openness enables evil in the world, without openness we

I hate the term “open source”

It doesn’t accurately reflect how people are building today anymore.

Is This the End of Open-Source? | Built In

Open-source licensure empowers governments and moneyed interests over devs. A reckoning might be on the horizon.

Coraline Ada Ehmke: The Rising Ethical Storm in Open Source

In the twenty years since the term “open source” was coined by Christine Peterson, our community has grown astronomically, all the while learning from its successes and failures. A lot has changed for open source developers in the past two decades. But the political and technological landscape has also changed.

The Culture War in Open Source is On

The challenges to open source

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

DHH Nazism Funded by 1Password VP Who Wrote “Honest Security”

Jason Meller wrote a security rulebook. I read it. He is in direct violation of it.

Trump admininistration has designated the Italian pro-privacy and anticapitalist collective Autistici/Inventati - which creates and maintains open-source software—a “terrorist organization” - Divisions by zero

[https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/fa7ca5bd-e9b0-4b8f-84e1-011bbd28c365.webp] https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/08/imposing-sanctions-on-violent-far-left-terrorist-groups/ [https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/08/imposing-sanctions-on-violent-far-left-terrorist-groups/] https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616 [https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616] #AutisticiInventati

The crusade against open-source abuse | TechCrunch

There’s a dark cloud on the horizon. The behavior of cloud infrastructure providers threatens the viability of open source. Thankfully, several leaders have mobilized to propose multiple solutions.

STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers (Accessible Version)

Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source. Accessible, high-legibility version.

STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers (Accessible Version)

Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source. Accessible, high-legibility version.

Something Big Happened in 1998

It is reasonable to accept that OSI founded Open Source with the Open Source Definition.