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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.

Governance in Open Source Software Projects | Disruptive Library Technology Jester
Disruptive Library Technology Jester Blog Posts
adhocracy+/Participation software must be open source - a plea for democratic software
Adhocracy is open source software. This article argues that investment software must be open source and explains the reasons why we are convinced of it.

Balancing Makers and Takers to scale and sustain Open Source
To scale and sustain Open Source ecosystems in a more efficient and fair manner, Open Source projects need to embrace new governance, coordination and incentive models.

Open Source is Not Enough
by James Halliday // The open source movement has fundamentally changed how software gets written. But in the process, corporations have been given a vast gift of free labor.

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.
Open source engagement in organizations
Companies, governments, and other organizations big and small are working with open source to achieve their goals. Teams range from barely considering it to ...

Open Source Software and Corporate Influence — Andrew Lilley Brinker
Exploring how corporations gain power in open source projects, and how to build resilience to corporate capture.

Forms of Open Source Government
Open source has more forms of government than countries do.

Open source is the electric vehicle of digital policy
Open source is very popular these days, not least due to the open-source strategy that the European Commission announced last week as part of the tech sovereignty package. While there is a lot to criticise about that strategy (exaggerated goals, misleading numbers etc), the one thing I would like to

Open Source for the Government [presentation] - Bozho's tech blog
A month ago I gave a talk at OpenFest (a Bulgarian conference for open technologies). The talk was in Bulgarian, but I’ve translated the slides, so here they are. Currently,Continue reading

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

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.
