Cloud Native Now: “Linux Foundation & CNCF Target ‘Patent Troll’ Non-Practicing Entities”
September 20, 2024
Eminently familiar friends, the Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) have expanded a partnership initiative with Unified Patents to defend open-source software against Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs).
The Register: “Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trolls”
September 18, 2024
Patent trolls are increasingly targeting cloud native open source projects, leading the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Linux Foundation to make efforts to extend their legal shields over such efforts. The polite term for patent trolls is “non-practicing...
Economist Impact: “Open sourcing the AI revolution”
September 18, 2024
This Economist Impact report, sponsored by Meta, explores how open-source approaches are shaping the AI revolution and their strengths and limitations. Drawing from interviews with experts at the Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Grammarly and the Cloud Native...
Forbes: “Linux Foundation + CNCF Patently Defend Open Source Software”
September 16, 2024
Authorization is irksome. For a start, the Brits spell licensing as licencing… and a great number of people mispronounce the word patent as “pay-tunt”, when of course it should be “pah-tent”, whichever side of the pond you are...
Der Standard: “‘Linux ist überall’: Linus Torvalds und die Open-Source-Welt zu Besuch in Wien”
September 16, 2024
Bis Mittwoch findet der Open Source Summit im Austria Center Vienna statt. Auch den Linux-Erfinder selbst hat es dafür in die verregnete Bundeshauptstadt verschlagen.
Diginomica: “KubeCon China – at 33-and-a-third, Linux is a long player. So, why does Linus Torvalds hate AI?”
August 23, 2024
Friday morning, Hong Kong time, a packed hall of maintainers and developers did something unusual in Chinese culture – they whooped and roared their approval at the sight of an urbane Finnish American onstage.
ZDNet: “Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust adoption, and why the Linux kernel is ‘the only thing that matters'”
August 23, 2024
Hong Kong: At The Linux Foundation‘s KubeCon and Open Source Summit China conference, Linus Torvalds and his buddy Dirk Hohndel, Verizon’s Head of the Open Source Program Office, once more chatted about Linux development and related issues to the delight of their audience....
The Linux security team issues 60 CVEs a week, but don’t stress. Do this instead
August 22, 2024
Hong Kong: At KubeCon and Open Source Summit China, Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the Linux stable kernel, wants you to know that on an average week, the Linux security team issues sixty — 60 — Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) security bulletins....
ComputerWeekly: “The rise and rise of open source in China”
August 22, 2024
China’s embrace of open source software has evolved into a powerful force in the global technology landscape, driving innovations in cloud computing, AI and other areas
Diginomica: “KubeCon China – don’t say OpenAI, say ‘open AI’”
August 22, 2024
While Western governments and proprietary tech companies have tended to regard China with suspicion in recent years, it is now the world’s second largest contributor to the open-source and cloud-native computing community worldwide.