Linux Professional Institute (LPI) turns 25 this year!

This will be celebrated with various activities and offers. So keep an eye on their social media channels and website: https://www.lpi.org/ to make sure you don't miss anything.

#anniversary #celebration #linux #OpenSource #freesoftware #IT #LPI

#Shotcut 24.04 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Ambisonic Encoder Filter and Various Improvements https://9to5linux.com/shotcut-24-04-open-source-video-editor-released-with-ambisonic-encoder-filter

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

I'm looking for resources, experiences, conversations, books and papers on revenue models for open source software, as I'm releasing a product that needs to be under GPLv3.

I'm specifically looking into monthly and annual donations and "sponsor a feature" sort of deals on top of service contracts.

There's already interest, so it's more about defining the methods rather than this being possible or not.

CC: @janl

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Hi,

das nächste Update steht kurz vor der Veröffentlichung.

Auf technischer Seite wurden die Downloads verbessert. Sowohl Dateien, die einen "ref-Header" brauchen, als auch Blob-Dateien können nun endlich gedownloaded werden.

Ansonsten wurde bei diesem Release besonders an der Benutzeroberfläche gearbeitet. Ein stimmiges Farbschema und vereinfachte Dialoge sorgen für mehr Anwendungsspaß. Wer schon einmal Bildschirmfotos sehen will, kann hier schauen:

https://codeberg.org/Gaukler_Faun/FOSS_Browser/src/branch/master/SCREENSHOTS.md

Ich teste noch ein bisschen und muss mir noch einen Titel für das Update überlegen, dann lass ich es auch die Welt los.😉

Schönen Abend noch!

#foss #opensource #FOSSBrowser #Android #FreeSoftware #teamdatenschutz #nogoogle #Android #internetbrowser

Link zum F-Droid-Store: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.baumann.browser/

All Your Base Are Belong to LLM

"The output from an LLM is a derivative work of the data used to train the LLM.

If we fail to recognise this, or are unable to uphold this in law, copyright (and copyleft on which it depends) is dead. Copyright will still be used against us by corporations, but its utility to FOSS to preserve freedom is gone."

https://blog.brettsheffield.com/all-your-base-are-belong-to-llm

#FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #LLM #AI

After a great week for Linux, with the releases of Fedora 40 and today Ubuntu 24.04, I would be interested to know which operating system the Fediverse in my "bubble" uses? Linux? Windows? Or macOS or even a BSD? More than one?

Please write in the comments which distribution or version! Thanks for participating and SHARING!

#linux #unix #opensource #freesoftware #windows #microsoft #apple #macos #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #debian #fedora #ubuntu #linuxmint #archlinux #opensuse #gnome #kde

• Linux - Which one? (70%, 19 votes)
• Windows 10/11 (14%, 4 votes)
• macOS (14%, 4 votes)
• FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD (18%, 5 votes)

If you are interested to help building an anonymous, taxable payment system using modern cryptography all being #FreeSoftware #OpenSource here information about the next funding round by @NGI_Taler

https://www.ngi.eu/opencalls/#ngitaler2nd

Hello Mastodon! We are a collective of #students and staff from #Amsterdam University College who care about #OpenStandards, #FreeSoftware, and #OpenData.

Every week, we get together to explore, study and organize our way out of the corporate lock-ins that we face at our #university and beyond.

Next to our website, this account will be our main channel to communicate with the world.

We hope that we can connect with others that share our ambitions to push for a free and open digital world.

"You have to understand, we’re responsible for taxpayer money here. We can’t just make a donation to your open source project."

— a national government who relies on #Matrix when being asked to support it financially

Read more about the problem and some initiatives that are responding to it:

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/04/open-source-publicly-funded-service/

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #funding #xz #sustainability

Open Source Infrastructure must be a publicly funded service.

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Matthew Hodgson (matrix.org)}

if at least developers used #GPL / #AGPL, the corporations at least were forced to contribute back in one way or an other, but due to the rampant use of MIT and BSD licenses, they can literally get away without doing anything beneficial for the wider ecosystem while using other people's code (those other people let them do it).

I think the proliferation of MIT and BSD licenses really made the #FreeSoftware free rider problem much worse than it should be.

I think that the huge rate of burnout in developers that cause issues time and time again can be traced back to this attitude of "I will license it permissively to get it into everything". When the code gets into everything without compensation, the pressure of responsibility mounts, and bad things happen.

It is my personal belief that one's mental health doesn't worth the "bragging right" of one's code getting into a wide range of proprietary garbage.

#FreeSoftware #GPL

Excellent article: I am NOT A SUPPLIER!
https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier

You are all on the hobbiest maintainers turf now
https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/open-source-hobbyists-turf

This guy nails it. If you want me to be your supplier then pay me. Period. Most of this comes from a pathological corporate mindset where sociopathic greed is considered normal. Plus a failure to read the licenses in first place: #gpl: software supplied with no warranty of fitness, not even implicit.

Focus more on #FreeSoftware and less on Open.