As Paris attracts crowds sports tourists for the 2024 games, mobile apps marketed to attendees are tracking them, collecting their private data, and then hawking it to advertisers and big tech.
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According to a new survey, Oracle's been bleeding Java JDK customers since it got greedy with its pricing in 2023.
Does Wayland becoming the defacto standard display server for Linux serve to marginalize BSD?
We're probably not going to find a solution to mass data mining by advertisers and others, as long as privacy issues are handled in a siloed manner by the individual platforms.
We can file this as a plug if we wish, Christine said. "I'm basically writing it because… well, you can color me impressed by an Enterprise Linux distribution that listens to its users and is quick to action. That's a little old fashioned for the digital age, isn't it?" We're filing it as an interesting trip down the rabbit hole that's Christine's mind.
The open source cloud pioneer Mirantis says it's hired Bias to hold itself "accountable as a responsible open source citizen."
According to Dell'Oro's report, CoolIT Systems, Boyd, and Motivair were the top three earners in the Data Center Liquid Cooling arena in 2023.
Maybe it's just an oversight, but the European Commission's draft of projects for next year fails to mention the NGI Zero Commons Fund, an important source of funding for FOSS projects.
Would openSUSE by any other name still have Tumbleweed and Leap? We've looked at the openSUSE name-change controversy and have decided there's nothing to see here -- move on.
For Good Reason, Apache Foundation Says ‘Goodbye’ to Iconic Feather Logo
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The Apache Software Foundation is making changes in an attempt to right a wrong it unintentionally created when it adopted its name 25-years ago.