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White House Champions Open Source AI to Counter China (This article should be read in light of the caveat that, as yet, no one knows what “open source AI” really means) The White House has released its “America’s AI Action Plan…

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#AIActionPlan #COSS #DeepSeek #Llama #OpenSourceAI #OpenAI #oss #Qwen #Trump #WhiteHouse

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Google’s strategic OSS gift: A2A joins the Linux Foundation In a significant move for the future of AI-related innovation, Google has donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation. This decision, announced in June 2025, signals a pivotal mo…

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#A2A #AI #CNCF #COSS #Google #Kubernetes #LinuxFoundatin #ML #OpenSource #oss

License management costs are driving enterprises towards open source A recent survey by Azul Systems and the ITAM Forum reveals that many companies are struggling with the complexities of software license compliance, and it’s costing them dearly. The survey of…

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#AssetManagement #Audits #CommercialOpenSource #COSS #Licensing #OpenSource #oss

YouTube video by Chinstrap Community The Gist Episode 16 - The IRS open sourced its Direct File software. Why is that important?

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#COSS #OSS #OpenSource #Politics #IRS #Trump #Government #Copyright #PublicDomain

Tether Announces Plan to Open Source Bitcoin Mining Software Tether announced yesterday that it will open source its Bitcoin Mining OS. The release is planned for later this year. This could enable many companies to create their own mining operations.

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#Bitcoin #COSS #Crypto #OpenSource #Tether

YouTube video by Chinstrap Community The Gist Episode 15 - How does forking act as a check on the power of OSS project maintainers?

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#COSS #OSS #OpenSource #Forking #Governance #Terraform #OpenTofu #Redis #valkey

Gravitee Raises $60 Million Series C Round Gravitee, which provides an open source platform for agentic API and event management, announced that it raised a $60 million series C round led by Sixth Street Growth. Gravitee’s paid offeri…

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#Agentic #AI #API #APIManagement #COSS #Events #Gravitee #OpenSource #oss

DataHub Raises $35 Million Series B Round DataHub, which provides an open source platform for managing metadata that gives context to AI training data, announced that it raised $35 million in a series B round led by Bessemer Venture Partne…

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#COSS #DataHub #Funding #Metadata #OpenSource #oss #Startups

OSS Foundations and their COSS Contributors: A Delicate Balance Lessons from the NATS Controversy The recent dispute between the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Synadia over the NATS messaging system highlights the complex relationship between open…

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New Report on the COSS Financial Case Serena Capital released a report on “The Data-Backed Financial Case from 25 Years of Commercial Open Source.” It mentions that “High-profile deals — Red Hat’s $34B sale to IBM, Ha…

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#COSS #finance #OpenSource

YouTube video by Chinstrap Community The Gist Episode 14 - Is "on prem" making a comeback? What does that mean for COSS?

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#COSS #OSS #Cloud #SaaS #OnPrem #AI #DataPrivacy #DataSecurity

This ain’t your daddy’s Microsoft 24 years ago, then-CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer famously declared, “Linux is a cancer.” Ballmer’s bellicose rhetoric against Linux was part of a broader war by Microsoft on the …

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#Azure #Cloud #Copyleft #COSS #GPL #Linux #Microsoft #OpenSource #oss

YouTube video by Chinstrap Community The Gist Episode 13 - Rsync license change causes replacement by Apple

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#OSS #COSS #Rsync #OpenRsync #OpenSource #gpl #apple #gpl3

YouTube video by Chinstrap Community The Gist Episode 12 - Why did Redis go back to being open source?

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#COSS #OSS #OpenSource #Redis #Valkey #BSD #AGPL #LinuxFoundation #cncf

YouTube video by Chinstrap Community The Gist Episode 11 - What is "open source AI"? (SPOILER: no one knows)

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#COSS #OSS #AI #opensource #OpenSourceAI #llama #deepseek #falcon #linuxfoundation #opensourceinitiative

COSS Conversion Playbook Most open core models offer two product paths: a free tier under an open source license, and a paid tier that offers additional services or features. This may sound, on face, like a “freemium…

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#businessstrategy #Conversion #COSS #OpenSource #Startups

OpenTofu joining CNCF OpenTofu, the fork of Terraform created in response to a controversial license change, joined the Linux Foundation almost immediately upon its launch. It quickly won high-profile supporters and ado…

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#CloudNative #CNCF #COSS #hashicorp #IaC #LinuxFoundation #OpenSource #OpenTofu #oss #Terraform

Two Opposing Views of Open Source AI In the last month, we saw two articles expressing opposite viewpoints about open source AI. John McBride of the Linux Foundation wrote in Substack that “Unfortunately, there is no ‘open…

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#AI #COSS #DeepSeek #MachineLearning #OpenSource #OpenSourceAI #oss

Tidepool Achieves Certification for Diabetes Management Tidepool, a non-profit diabetes data management group, develops open-source technology for the diabetes community, such as the Tidepool Loop, a “do-it-yourself” automated insulin delivery system, w…

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#coss #diabetes #medicaldevices #opensource

LiveKit raises $45 million series B round LiveKit is an open-source real-time platform designed for building voice, video, and multimodal AI applications. It’s widely used for applications like AI voice assistants, livestreaming, and…

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#coss #livekit #multimodalai #opensource #oss

Temporal raises $146 million series C round Temporal is an OSS platform designed to help developers build reliable and scalable applications by ensuring that their code can handle failures seamlessly. It provides a framework for creating dur…

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#cadence #coss #opensource #orchestration #oss #temporal

Allen Institute partners with Google to distribute OLMo In February 2024, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (known as Ai2), the AI research institute founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, released the initial version of its large lan…

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#ai #apache #coss #llama #LLM #Meta #olmo #opensourceai #oss

YouTube video by Chinstrap Community The Gist Episode 10 - Is OSS the solution to the hardware and infrastructure crunch?

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#COSS #OSS #AI #Hyperscalers #CoreWeave #OpenSource #Llama #DeepSeek

Highlights from OpenLogic’s 2025 State of Open Source Report OpenLogic released its 2025 State of Open Source Report in collaboration with the Open Source Initiative and the Eclipse Foundation. The report identifies a number of notable trends. Unsurprisingly…

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#coss #opensource #openlogic #oss #perforce

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Accenture: By 2030, banking infrastructure tech will be mostly OSS Accenture released an annual report in which it identified ten trends that will shape the banking industry in the years to come. Trend number eight caught our attention: “The future is open s…

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#accenture #banking #coss #fintech #opensource #opensourcefintech #oss

OpenAI says it will release an “open-weight” model We’ve repeatedly pointed out how open source is becoming the dominant development and distribution model in the ultra-competitive AI race. That trend seems to be having an effect on the most …

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