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Revolt of the Redis Maintainers: New Redis Clone, Valkey, Has Linux Foundation Support

Another fork of Redis has arrived, and this one might end up making the Redis suits wish they had never even considered abandoning open-source. It has the support of The Linux Foundation, big tech, and many of the project's long-time contributors.

Redis Goes From Open-Source to Fauxpen and the Forks Have Already Started

Redis is only the last in a line of companies that have lately dropped open-source licenses in favor of proprietary open-source lookalike licenses. In this case, a fork has already happened that just might end up being real competition for Redis.

Why Acorn Labs Turned on a Dime and Shifted From Kubernetes to AI

A few weeks ago the Kubernetes-helper SaaS platform Acorn Runtime was happily in beta, and was set to go GA in the near future. Now, the platform is in mothballs and Acorn Labs is betting its future on GPTScript, an open-source scripting language for generative AI.

Doordash Does a Thing for Safety and Wants Credit for Doing What Should Be Expected

DoorDash thinks we're supposed to be impressed that it's working to keep its drivers safe. We ask, isn't that just what they should be expected to do? We have a suggestion about something they should do if they really want to impress us with their efforts.

Roundup: War’s Effect on Gaza Tech, Microsoft’s Howto for Installing Linux; California’s Right to Repair Law, and More

This week FOSS News Roundup also includes a list of some goodies coming to KDE Plasma 6.

Consequence of Ottawa’s ‘Link Tax’ Dampens News on Canadian Wildfires

Canadians in wildfire ravaged areas can't swap important and potentially life saving news stories on Facebook as a result of the country's recently passed news link law.

FOSS Week in Review: Happy Sysadmin Day, SEC’s New Cyber Attack Rules, and Musk Steals User Handle

Be nice to your SysAdmin, SEC makes rules for reporting cyber attacks, and Musk purloins a user's $40,000 Twitter X handle.

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