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By Matt Asay If you follow open source topics on X/Twitter, you can be forgiven for believing the biggest issue in open source today is companies relicensing their open source code under different licenses. Thierry Carrez, the vice chairperson of the OSI, for example, recently issued a dire warning: “single vendor is the new proprietary.” Sounds terrible, right? I mean, once you forget that the vast majority of software that you and I use every day on our phones, laptops, servers, etc., is proprietary. (Yes, with plenty of open source buried inside and effectively “relicensed.”) Here’s just a ...
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By Matt Asay OpenTofu’s founders had a mission. Upset by HashiCorp licensing changes in August 2023 to its popular Terraform infrastructure-as-code tool, OpenTofu set out to be the “open source successor to the MPLv2-licensed Terraform,” further promising that it “will be community-driven, impartial, layered and modular, and backward-compatible.” Hugely promising, but extraordinarily difficult to pull off. So difficult in fact, that OpenTofu may have illegally taken HashiCorp’s code to keep pace. At least, it’s hard to avoid that conclusion, perusing OpenTofu’s GitHub repositories and comparin...
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By Matt Asay Back in the 2000s, we talked about open source a lot—perhaps too much. We fought about whether code freedom (GPL) or developer freedom (Apache/BSD) mattered more. We wondered when the year of the Linux desktop might finally arrive. (TL;DR never. Or maybe it already happened. Or…whatever.) We chastised companies for “open washing” (anticipating the years of cloud- and AI-washing to come). We debated “open core” business models. By the 2010s, open source faded into the background as it became essential infrastructure for every developer and company on the planet, whether they knew i...
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