The Register: “Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trolls”
September 18, 2024
Patent trolls are increasingly targeting cloud native open source projects, leading the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Linux Foundation to make efforts to extend their legal shields over such efforts. The polite term for patent trolls...
Ars Technica: “Patents for software and genetic code could be revived by two bills in Congress”
September 18, 2024
The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider two bills Thursday that would effectively nullify the Supreme Court’s rulings against patents on broad software processes and human genes. Open source and Internet freedom advocates are mobilizing...
Economist Impact: “Open sourcing the AI revolution”
September 18, 2024
This Economist Impact report, sponsored by Meta, explores how open-source approaches are shaping the AI revolution and their strengths and limitations. Drawing from interviews with experts at the Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Grammarly and the...
Heise: “Open Source Summit: How projects defend themselves against patent trolls”
September 17, 2024
Patent trolls also threaten open source projects. Together with Unified Patents, members of the Linux Foundation and CNCF now receive many protective measures.
Forbes: “Linux Foundation + CNCF Patently Defend Open Source Software”
September 16, 2024
Authorization is irksome. For a start, the Brits spell licensing as licencing… and a great number of people mispronounce the word patent as “pay-tunt”, when of course it should be “pah-tent”, whichever side of the pond...
Der Standard: “‘Linux ist überall’: Linus Torvalds und die Open-Source-Welt zu Besuch in Wien”
September 16, 2024
Bis Mittwoch findet der Open Source Summit im Austria Center Vienna statt. Auch den Linux-Erfinder selbst hat es dafür in die verregnete Bundeshauptstadt verschlagen.
SD Times: “Linux Foundation announces several new subgroups during Open Source Summit Day 1”
September 16, 2024
The Linux Foundation had a lot of news to share during the first day of its Open Source Summit in Vienna, Austria. Several new subgroups have been formed within the organization to support popular technologies and practices.
Diginomica: “KubeCon China – at 33-and-a-third, Linux is a long player. So, why does Linus Torvalds hate AI?”
August 23, 2024
Friday morning, Hong Kong time, a packed hall of maintainers and developers did something unusual in Chinese culture – they whooped and roared their approval at the sight of an urbane Finnish American onstage.
ZDNet: “Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust adoption, and why the Linux kernel is ‘the only thing that matters'”
August 23, 2024
Hong Kong: At The Linux Foundation‘s KubeCon and Open Source Summit China conference, Linus Torvalds and his buddy Dirk Hohndel, Verizon’s Head of the Open Source Program Office, once more chatted about Linux development and related issues to the delight of...
The Linux security team issues 60 CVEs a week, but don’t stress. Do this instead
August 22, 2024
Hong Kong: At KubeCon and Open Source Summit China, Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the Linux stable kernel, wants you to know that on an average week, the Linux security team issues sixty — 60 — Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures...