The Register: “Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trolls”
The Register: “Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trolls”
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...
September 18, 2024

Ars Technica: “Patents for software and genetic code could be revived by two bills in Congress”
Ars Technica: “Patents for software and genetic code could be revived by two bills in Congress”
The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider two bills Thursday that would effectively nullify the Supreme Court’s rulings against patents on broad software processes and human genes. Open source and Internet freedom advocates are mobilizing...
September 18, 2024

Economist Impact: “Open sourcing the AI revolution”
Economist Impact: “Open sourcing the AI revolution”
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...
September 18, 2024

Join the Cloud Native Ecosystem at KubeDay Colombia on October 9!
Join the Cloud Native Ecosystem at KubeDay Colombia on October 9!
Open to technologists of all levels, KubeDay Colombia will convene engaging cloud native speakers and community members to Medellín SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – September 17, 2024 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable...
September 17, 2024

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 co-located event deep dive: Istio Day
Community Post KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 co-located event deep dive: Istio Day
Co-chairs: Iris Ding & Keith MattixNovember 12, 2024Salt Lake City, Utah Istio Day is the biannual community event for the industry’s most widely adopted and feature rich service mesh, where attendees will find lessons learned from...
September 17, 2024

Artifact Hub becomes a CNCF incubating project
Artifact Hub becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Artifact Hub as a CNCF incubating project.  Artifact Hub is a web-based application that enables finding, installing, and publishing cloud native packages and configurations. Discovering useful...
September 17, 2024

Heise: “Open Source Summit: How projects defend themselves against patent trolls”
Heise: “Open Source Summit: How projects defend themselves against patent trolls”
Patent trolls also threaten open source projects. Together with Unified Patents, members of the Linux Foundation and CNCF now receive many protective measures.
September 17, 2024

A deep dive into NetBox operator
Member Post A deep dive into NetBox operator
Member post from Swisscom by Lea Brühwiler, Ashan Senevirathne, Joel Studler, Alexander North, Henry Chun-Hung Tseng, Fabian Schulz Two weeks ago, we announced the availability of the NetBox Operator for Kubernetes, an open-source tool designed to...
September 16, 2024 | Lea Brühwiler, Ashan Senevirathne, Joel Studler, Alexander North, Henry Chun-Hung Tseng, Fabian Schulz

Winter soldier: scale down Kubernetes made easy
Winter soldier: scale down Kubernetes made easy
Member post originally published on the Devtron blog by Bhushan Nemade TL;DR: Stop wasting money on idle resources! Winter Soldier, an open-source tool, helps you automatically scale down non-production environments, saving you up to 28% on...
September 16, 2024

Forbes: “Linux Foundation + CNCF Patently Defend Open Source Software”
Forbes: “Linux Foundation + CNCF Patently Defend Open Source Software”
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...
September 16, 2024