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Open Source Explained — Open Indie

Musings on the concept of ‘open source’, in the broadest possible definition of the term. Also an invitation to become a participant in ...

Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open S…

An inside look at modern open source software developer…

Open Source Software and Corporate Influence — Andrew Lilley Brinker

Open source software projects are frequently enmeshed with the interests of corporations. We should update mental models of who works on open source accordingly, and build or modify power structures to be more resilient to corporate capture.

Sustainable Open Source: The Maintainers Perspective or: How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love Open Source

The Missing Middle of Open Source

Why serious, maintainer-driven projects struggle to sustain themselves—and what it will take to fix it.

Open Source Resistance

A direct-action manifesto for maintainers keeping open source alive on company time.

What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer

Outside your door stands a line of a few hundred people. They are patiently waiting for you to answer their questions, complaints, pull requests, and feature requests. You want to help all of them,…

What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer

Outside your door stands a line of a few hundred people. They are patiently waiting for you to answer their questions, complaints, pull requests, and feature requests. You want to help all of them,…

The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders

The open source movement runs on the heroic efforts of not enough people doing too much work. They need help.

Tyranny of Permissionlessness

open source’s narrow focus further empowers those with other ways to exclude

Open Source Beyond Licensing - The Evolution Ahead

Boris Mann's digital garden and personal site.

The Arguments Against Open Source AI are Very Bad | Tom Bedor's Blog

The release of Kimi K3 has opened a fresh round of angst and confused discourse. There's a loud cohort of journalists, business leaders, and politicians arguing that open source AI is a dangerous threat. OpenAI's Dean Ball:

Open Source is Broken

The Open Source movement, as championed by the OSI, prizes absolute openness above all other concerns...

Open Source Initiative

The steward of the Open Source Definition, setting the foundation for the Open Source Software ecosystem.