Notices by Simon Phipps (webmink@meshed.cloud)

The #CRA is now published in the Official Journal so comes into force as European law in 20 days. Next task: the #standards.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202402847

#Policy #OpenSource

Listening to @benny from #AlmaLinux with her day 2 keynote at #SFSCon about "Building a No Drama Community"

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

@luis_in_brief Wag The Dog?

Pleased to see the FSF is also taking the AI bubble seriously.
https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-is-working-on-freedom-in-machine-learning-applications

#SoftwareFreedom #AI

I've been testing a federated classified ads server, flohmarkt ("Flea Market") which I think is a promising idea for promoting a circular economy among friends. Details on my hub.

It raises quite a few questions for me though - it's going to need more trust & safety features than other #Activitypub applications for example.

https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Notable points from #Crowdstrike CEO message:
* This is a minor outage that only affects Windows (so it's no biggie)
* We are working with impacted customers (who are to blame, not us)
* Please only use official channels (the press is biased)
* [...] (I do not intend to apologise)

Guessing they will soon have some vacancies...

The Apache Software Foundation is getting rid of its anachronistic Feather logo and related branding.

https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/evolving-the-asf-brand

#OpenSource #Marketing #FreeSoftware #Apache #Governance #Indigenous

Switzerland passes law requiring #OpenSource software in the public sector. "All public bodies must disclose the source code of software developed by or for them, unless precluded by third-party rights or security concerns" Well done @maemst, great work!

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-open-source-law-switzerland

@cpswan I am watching that case with great interest...

@Suiseiseki
I wrote my view on this here: https://the.webm.ink/getting-back-to-a-social-frame

@Suiseiseki
That's what I do. That's what everyone I know does. It is no longer 2001.

IBM CEO: "“If you want people to contribute, it has to be clearly open source, it cannot actually just be open source marketing,”

https://venturebeat.com/ai/ibm-ceo-praises-real-open-source-for-enterprise-gen-ai-as-new-efforts-emerge-at-think-2024/

#AI #OpenSource

A small change to the most recent (Parliament-approved) version of the Cyber Resilience Act (#CRA) is the addition of a requirement that software be "openly shared" in order for the European Union to consider it #OpenSource in relation to the CRA.

https://the.webm.ink/openly-shared

#SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware

All my Debians just got an update, which is on balance comforting.

@Exxo
I focus on CLA because most projects use a license with at least a patent waiver and startups using rights-ratchet usually want to retain full patent leverage for their VCs so don't want to be subject to the license themselves. But in this case I don't think Redis started out as a rights-ratchet

@clacke @shironeko @jer

@msw We pointed out the errors in that article and they mostly removed them.

Want to find our more about @almalinux ? Join us at #AlmaLinux Day on March 18th in Germany (same location as #CloudFest)

https://almalinux.org/almalinux-day-germany-2024/

#Linux #RHEL #CentOS

@dentangle
My hunch would be they are inherited from CloudFest who are hosting, but I'd defer to @almalinux as I am just a guest not the organiser.

https://www.cloudfest.com/

The final version of the #CRA is now public and it seems the risks we worried about all last year have been addressed.

Yes, the regulators listened. And they are back at #FOSDEM to tell us about it.

https://blog.opensource.org/the-european-regulators-listened-to-the-open-source-communities/

#OpenSource #Policy #Regulation @osi

I have started a topic on the new @osi discourse for this post,
https://discuss.opensource.org/t/we-offered-to-help-with-the-cra-and-the-regulators-listened/183?u=webmink