'Source available' is not open source (and that's okay)(dri.es)

99 points by geerlingguy 10 months ago | 112 comments

OpenSSH Ships on Every Mac, Linux Server and Windows. Its Creator Trusts No One(zbruceli.org)

4 points by zbruceli 20 days ago | 0 comments

Long-form blog profile of OpenSSH creator Theo de Raadt, covering his NetBSD exit, lost DARPA grant, and security-focused philosophy.

Devtools must be open source(blog.exe.dev)

695 points by bryanmikaelian 2 months ago | 227 comments

Blog post by David Crawshaw on exe.dev arguing that developer tools must be open source, starting from how engineers rarely wrote software for themselves.

Paying people to work on open source is good(jacobian.org)

283 points by webology 2 years ago | 101 comments

Bear is now source-available(herman.bearblog.dev)

497 points by neoromantique 1 year ago | 439 comments

Herman's blog post announcing that Bear blogging platform is moving from the MIT license to a source-available license after competitors forked the code.

OpenSSL 1.1.1 End of Life(openssl.org)

145 points by gslin 3 years ago | 53 comments

Open Source is one person(opensourcesecurity.io)

325 points by LawnGnome 1 year ago | 132 comments

Blog post by Josh Bressers on Open Source Security arguing that many open source projects are maintained by a single person.

Open source security at Astral(astral.sh)

344 points by vinhnx 6 months ago | 95 comments

Astral blog post by William Woodruff describing the techniques Astral uses to secure its open source tools and their build, test, and release processes against supply chain attacks.

Open Social(overreacted.io)

882 points by knowtheory 1 year ago | 353 comments

Dan Abramov's overreacted blog post arguing that social media should follow open source's path, built on open protocols like AT Protocol.

A Git story: Not so fun this time(blog.brachiosoft.com)

470 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 104 comments

Blog post recounting the origin story of Git, starting from Linux's scaling problems in 1998 and Linus Torvalds' path to creating it.

My first contribution to Linux(vkoskiv.com)

633 points by vkoskiv 1 year ago | 76 comments

A blog post recounting the author's experience upstreaming their first Linux kernel patch, fixing a hardware issue on a 2005 Fujitsu Lifebook S2110.

Saying Goodbye to GitHub(ersei.net)

421 points by donutshop 3 years ago | 330 comments

Personal blog post in which the author explains why they are leaving GitHub after using it since age eleven.