MinIO is Dead
MinIO announces it is entering maintenance mode, the dragon-slayer has become the dragon – how MinIO transformed from an open-source S3 alternative to just another commercial software company
Tags: Open-Source
On Trusting Open-Source Supply Chains
In serious production you can’t rely on an upstream that explicitly says “no guarantees.” When someone says “don’t count on me,” the right answer is “then I’ll run it myself.”
Alicloud “Borrowed” Supabase. This Is What Happens When Giants Strip-Mine Open-Source.
Founders here get asked the same question over and over: what if Alibaba builds the same thing? Alicloud RDS just launched Supabase as a managed service. Exhibit A.
KubeSphere: Trust Crisis Behind Open-Source Supply Cut
Deleting images and running away - this isn’t about commercial closed-source issues, but supply cut problems that directly destroy years of accumulated community trust.
Open-Source "Tyrant" Linus's Purge
The Linux community is essentially imperial — and Linus himself is the earliest and most successful technical dictator. People are used to Linus’s generosity but forget this point.
WordPress Community Civil War: On Community Boundary Demarcation
When open source ideals meet commercial conflicts, what insights can this conflict between open source software communities and cloud vendors bring? On the importance of community boundary demarcation.
Switzerland Mandates Open-Source for Government Software
Switzerland’s government leads the way with open source legislation, showing IT developing countries how to ensure software sovereignty and control. True autonomy and control stem from “open source communities,” not some “nationalist” style “domestic software.”
Redis Going Non-Open-Source is a Disgrace to "Open-Source" and Public Cloud
Redis “going non-open source” is not a disgrace to Redis, but a disgrace to “open source/OSI” and even more so to public cloud. What truly matters has always been software freedom, while open source is just one means to achieve software freedom.
Will PostgreSQL Change Its License?
PostgreSQL will not change its license. This article is a response from PostgreSQL core team members on this question.
Paradigm Shift: From Cloud to Local-First
Cloud databases’ exorbitant markups—sometimes 10x or more—are undoubtedly a scam for users outside the applicable spectrum. But we can dig deeper: why are public clouds, especially cloud databases, like this? And based on their underlying logic, make predictions about the industry’s future.
Time to Say Goodbye to GPL
DDIA author Martin Kleppmann argues we should move away from GPL licenses. In the 2020s, the enemy of computing freedom is cloud software.