Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports

Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers ...
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Ronald Maravanyika

Ronald Maravanyika is a Zimbabwean software developer and community leader. He co-founded ZimboPy, chairs the Python Zimbabwe Trust, and works as ICT Manager at ZACH.

AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer ...
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Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called ...
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Linux Foundation Receives $12.5 Million for Open Source Security

The Linux Foundation has announced that it is receiving a total of $12.5 million in grants from a group of technology ...
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Job opportunity: Engineering and Certification Manager at the Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Massachusetts 501 (c) (3) charity with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom, seeks a motivated and talented individual to be our new Engineering ...