The other day, AWS announced its latest plans to work around the license of ElasticSearch, a very useful open source project cared for by Elastic. “At AWS, we believe that maintainers of an open source project have a responsibility to ensure that the primary open source distribution… does not advantage any one company over another. … Read moreOpen Source needs Open Source companies.
by Jorge Montero Maybe you are interested in a language, or an open source project, but you feel like the community is unwelcoming: Some big voices are rude, they’re downright hostile to newcomers and anyone who disagrees with them. Let’s not get involved. Or in your workplace: influential people in the organization aren’t nearly as … Read moreThe Emperor has no clothes: Bad actors in tech
Maybe software is like a tree. The applications, websites, games that people use are the leaves. They’re the important part of the tree, because they’re useful. They solve real problems and improve lives, they make money, they entertain. The leaves are built upon the wood of the tree, branches and trunk: all the libraries and … Read moreSoftware is a tree
Lately, open source is important to me. Today, for instance: it starts with a useful library, complicated by Java threading, confused by a Scala language feature, and ends with happiness and joy because Open Source. I’m using scalaz.concurrent.Task, a monad (LINK) with at least three special powers. First, it use a Future internally, which perform … Read moreJVM Threads, ???, and Open Source