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OSI Standards director · Meshed Insights CEO · Geek-Nerd · Cat servant.

On the Internet since 1987 (via BBSes) · Prior Fediverse: identi.ca from 2008; mastodon.cc from 2017. Old posts are auto-deleted.

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Woke up to find has totally destroyed their app on all our phones, the only way to control their products, and left it with no play queue, no playlists, no widget controls, and when contacted for support pretends it's somehow better.

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Johnson, of course, knew the voter suppression he initiated was performative, but it's still iconic to see him turned away from the polls today because he didn't have ID.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/minister-sorry-as-veterans-find-id-card-not-valid-for-english-elections

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The @EU_Commission has launched a public consultation on the rules defining the European system (aka regulation 1025). The top-line for me is it completely ignores while making both engagement in standardisation and use of standards very hard for open source community members.

Unsurprisingly, the consultation's survey makes it extremely hard to tell them this! I think @osi will be attaching a letter to its input! The deadline is July 25.

https://discuss.opensource.org/t/time-to-fix-the-rules-about-european-standards/284?u=webmink

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@boud There's a range of studies hence the large range in my somewhat throwaway comment (which was aimed at readers aware of the difficulty of finding a real number!). There's stuff like https://gitnux.org/open-source-software-statistics/ with 80%, https://www.sonatype.com/state-of-the-software-supply-chain/open-source-supply-and-demand with 90%, https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/a-summary-of-census-ii-open-source-software-application-libraries-the-world-depends-on with 70-90%, https://www.synopsys.com/software-integrity/resources/analyst-reports/open-source-security-risk-analysis.html with 96% and that's just a random sample from a search! You'll find pointers to more of the academic census and study in https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf and https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/study-about-impact-open-source-software-and-hardware-technological-independence-competitiveness-and

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forms new 501(c)(3) non-profit entity with new board of directors in the United States to facilitate tax-deductible donations and in-kind support:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

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@Mastodon
Why not just use SPI? https://www.spi-inc.org/

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@Mastodon
OK. I would expect a c3 to be a difficult vehicle for the activities I'm aware of at Mastodon. Getting an IRS determination will be key. I would probably have opted for a different path ..

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Wait, so Hashicorp broke Terraform to lure IBM, a Linux Foundation platinum member?

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So that's me received the confirmation that my stuff is removed from Bigstack.

Which is good. It shows the Optout requests are being done.

Go to check again for librecasts old github account. Looks like I missed some.

Opens new ticket

https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack

While I did think it is important for Software Heritage to archive code, I wish it was done Opt-in.

It would be nice to be asked and for that code to be curated. This is not curation. This is automation.

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@onepict Why, exactly? Surely the whole point of using a free/open source license is that others can do as they wish with your code without reference to you?

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@onepict Software Heritage specifically. I believe it is a fundamental resource for democracy and I very much support every last scrap of FOSS code being archived there and kept for ever.

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@onepict I am more sympathetic to Ai training issues but again, a FOSS license is intended to allow any and all reuse without further permission and a world in which the permission inherent in an open source license needs further permissions for certain fields of use is not one I want.

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@ReimarBauer @onepict Latest draft is here: https://discuss.opensource.org/t/draft-v-0-0-8-of-the-open-source-ai-definition-is-available-for-comments/315

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@dentangle @interpeer @onepict
Note that Software Heritage has not created an LLM, despite the beliefs some hold to the contrary.

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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

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    @slothrop
    I have family who work for this company
    https://kidslox.com/

    Have not tried it myself though.

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    Open source infrastructure must be a publicly funded service, and funders need to support maintenance – not just new feature development 📣

    This is on our minds this week in the wake of the #xz news, and as we continue to seek funding to support #Matrix.

    Read the latest from project lead, @matthew: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/04/open-source-publicly-funded-service/

    #OpenSource #FOSS #OpenStandards

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    @matrix
    I have been pitching an approach to DG CNECT based on bug fixing rather than feature focus, but not got much traction. Cascading funding is definitely part of the solution though.

    @matthew @smallcircles

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    @nemobis My proposal is to link it to a register of software used by the Commission and allow parties to claim for fixing issues on any of that software via a StandICT-style grants college. When it relates to a case where a CVE was addressed and all the facts are verifiable the grant would be approximately automatic.

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    @nemobis
    My proposal is to have the Commisson tender for the mechanism and have third parties bid to run it, like StandICT is run by an Italian company. Ideally I would limit tendering to social-purpose entities only. The approval mechanism would involve a group of peers approving each grant based on evidence supplied, again like StandICT (and being paid for their time like StandICT).

    @whvholst

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    If you heard my comments yesterday about the need to revise the EU rules on #standards (reg 1025) so they don't discriminate against #OpenSource, you may also want to add your comments to the topic in @osi's new Discourse forum at https://discuss.opensource.org/t/time-to-fix-the-rules-about-european-standards/284 (free sign-up required to post unless you're already an OSI member).

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    Looks like the big #OpenSource foundations have got tired of being blocked by the #standards massif amd the @EU_Commission over #CRA standards and are organising their own initiative.

    https://eclipse-foundation.blog/2024/04/02/open-source-community-cra-compliance/

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    Now that Europe is using fake time as well, the window in which Europe-America meetings are at considerate times has once again shrunk.

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    So when are we going to get rid of fake time? I thought Europe had it in hand and then ... birdsong.

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    Almost without skipping a beat, the Linux Foundation has forked following the betrayal of its community.
    https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community

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    With excellent timing given the upcoming request for #standards for #CRA compliance and the forthcoming review of regulation 1025 and standards #policy, CJEU has ruled that "harmonised standards form part of EU law" and cannot be kept secret as there is always a public interest in their disclosure. Time for some modernisation.

    Well done once again @carlmalamud and team!
    https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=283443&mode=req&pageIndex=1&dir=&occ=first&part=1&text=&doclang=EN&cid=6387651

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    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

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    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

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