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Chinstrap Community @chinstrapcommunity.bsky.social · 2d

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Navigating the Minefield: How Clear Governance Can Prevent Open Source Controversies - Chinstrap Community

Introduction The world of open source is full of passion and strong convictions. This can lead to disputes that arise from ideological differences around open source. But sometimes, strong convictions...

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Chinstrap Community @chinstrapcommunity.bsky.social · 6d

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Yet Another License Change - Chinstrap Community

License changes are an ongoing controversy in the COSS world. They go by many names, depending on your viewpoint: rug-pulls, bait and switch, or new-and-improved licenses. To understand this phenomeno...

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Chinstrap Community @chinstrapcommunity.bsky.social · 23d

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Qualcomm is Buying Arduino

Qualcomm has announced that it has agreed to buy Arduino. “Arduino will retain its independent brand, tools, and mission, while continuing to support a wide range of microcontrollers and micr…

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Chinstrap Community @chinstrapcommunity.bsky.social · 26d

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MinIO Community Edition Feature Set is Shrinking

Interesting articles here and here from this June about the negative reaction from the community about removing functions from the open core company’s open source version. “The adjustme…

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Chinstrap Community @chinstrapcommunity.bsky.social · Sep 26

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IndiaFOSS Showcases Local COSS

Last week, FOSSUnited sponsored the 5th edition of the IndiaFOSS conference in Bangaluru. COSS companies showcased there included: Ente, a Google Photos alternative ERPNext by Frappe, a web applica…

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Chinstrap Community @chinstrapcommunity.bsky.social · Sep 24

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Commercial Open Source is not Only About License Changes

An article appeared recently in The New Stack about the progress of companies built on open source. It focuses on the changes in licensing strategy of Cebo, a synthetic data company whose technolog…

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Chinstrap Community @chinstrapcommunity.bsky.social · Sep 22

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Tongyi Open Source Agent

Alibaba announced an open source agent that is being hailed as the “Deepseek of agents” due to its open source license, Apache 2.0. Tongyi means to agree or unite. One more step forward…

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Chinstrap Community @chinstrapcommunity.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Succession Planning and Open Source

An interesting article appeared recently about succession plans for the Linux kernel project. We’ve all been very fortunate, until now, that Linus Torvalds has remained both able and willing …

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Chinstrap Community @chinstrapcommunity.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Take our COSS Entrepreneurship Quiz

How much do you know about creating a successful COSS business? Test your knowledge with our quiz here. If you attend one of our workshops, you will easily score 100%! Learn more at www.chinstrap.c…

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Chinstrap Community @chinstrapcommunity.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thank you to all who joined Heather @heathermeeker.bsky.social and Sabir @devlegal.bsky.social
for our Fireside Chat with Nariman Jelveh
of Puter @heyputer.bsky.social!

Watch the video here: youtu.be/jAjiG6UfR2g

Stay tuned for more; we've got a big one in the works 😉

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Chinstrap Community Fireside Chat - Nariman Jelveh of Puter

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Chinstrap Community @chinstrapcommunity.bsky.social · Jul 30

Register now if you haven't already!

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Chinstrap Community @chinstrapcommunity.bsky.social · Jul 26

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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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Chinstrap Community @chinstrapcommunity.bsky.social · Jul 25

Join Heather @heathermeeker.bsky.social and Sabir @devlegal.bsky.social as they host Nariman Jelveh, founder and CEO of Puter @heyputer.bsky.social for a virtual fireside chat!

Hear Nariman share insights from his ongoing journey as as a COSS founder.

Register here: dub.sh/Li6hXuL