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Ryuno-Ki
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| In June 2024 I was promoted as one of the maintainers of the [Amber Lang](https://amber-lang.com/) and started coding a bit in Rust. | ||
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| In June 2025 (it's the future of the time of writing), I will get married to my wonderful girlfriend Fiamma! |
Ryuno-Ki
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| So Open Source != Free Software, this means that open source is a subset or a minimal definition of the goals of a project compared to Free Software. This happen about the *free* in Free Software because as we said open source means that the code is available but what you can do with that depends on the license, that can be Free Software, or you need to pay to access it for example. There are tons of pages that explain the difference between the various licenses and why, but often they are very complicated, so [get ready on studying them](https://blog.graphqleditor.com/software-licensing-cheat-sheet/). | |||
| Another opinion is by company side when the license topic is on fire, like dual licensing, CLA, abuses or license's restrictiveness, but I don't want to talk about those stuff as it is the most common discussion in this world and there are people who explain a lot better than me, [Open source licensing for supervillains](https://offlinemark.com/2021/01/22/open-source-licensing-for-supervillains/). | |||
| Yes, you need to study a bit because it easy to get a license conflict because [you like to code but you don't care of the legal part](https://arkadiuszkondas.com/dmca-php-ml-and-copyright-boundaries/). | |||
| Yes, you need to study a bit because it easy to get a license conflict because [you like to code but you don't care of the legal part](https://arkadiuszkondas.com/dmca-php-ml-and-copyright-boundaries/). | |||
| Another recent trend, followed by the various Open Source companies that have to fight against various hosting/cloud providers that not contribute back (in money terms) to the project or the fact that "open source" is used for everything that is free to download and use it, is the one [that developers care more about software's access that the license itself](https://www.infoworld.com/article/3703768/the-open-source-licensing-war-is-over.html). Infact there is a new term "post-opensource" about [this new types of licenses for Open Source Business model](https://devclass.com/2024/02/08/preserving-the-magic-of-free-new-types-of-licenses-will-not-solve-open-source-business-model-says-percona-founder/), usually because they are double licensed and not OpenSourceInitiative compatible, as they limit the usage for some specific business cases. | |||
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| Another recent trend, followed by the various Open Source companies that have to fight against various hosting/cloud providers that not contribute back (in money terms) to the project or the fact that "open source" is used for everything that is free to download and use it, is the one [that developers care more about software's access that the license itself](https://www.infoworld.com/article/3703768/the-open-source-licensing-war-is-over.html). Infact there is a new term "post-opensource" about [this new types of licenses for Open Source Business model](https://devclass.com/2024/02/08/preserving-the-magic-of-free-new-types-of-licenses-will-not-solve-open-source-business-model-says-percona-founder/), usually because they are double licensed and not OpenSourceInitiative compatible, as they limit the usage for some specific business cases. | |
| In fact there is a new term "post-opensource" about […] |
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- Open Source Initiative (not Pascal Case)
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| As today there aren't new licenses that are still Open Source Initiative approved (they don't respect one of the 4 freedom) and at same time a process for OSS projects that let them to survive in this world. At same time as F/OSS user and contributor I think that is important to have more awareness to the consumers like companies to give back something, not just be a consumer. | ||
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| For the same reason, since 2023 a lot of companies release their LLM models for AI as open source. At the end they aren't open source, because they just shares to you the final output, so you don't know how it is generated, infact some [big projects don't want contribution generated by AI](https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/18/distros_ai_code/) and at same time they have some limitations. |
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| For the same reason, since 2023 a lot of companies release their LLM models for AI as open source. At the end they aren't open source, because they just shares to you the final output, so you don't know how it is generated, infact some [big projects don't want contribution generated by AI](https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/18/distros_ai_code/) and at same time they have some limitations. | |
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| As today there aren't new licenses that are still Open Source Initiative approved (they don't respect one of the 4 freedom) and at same time a process for OSS projects that let them to survive in this world. At same time as F/OSS user and contributor I think that is important to have more awareness to the consumers like companies to give back something, not just be a consumer. | ||
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| For the same reason, since 2023 a lot of companies release their LLM models for AI as open source. At the end they aren't open source, because they just shares to you the final output, so you don't know how it is generated, infact some [big projects don't want contribution generated by AI](https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/18/distros_ai_code/) and at same time they have some limitations. | ||
| The [Meta case with LLaMa 2 shown some issues](https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-open-source), has doesn't follow the 4 freedom, limit the commercial usage and also the purpose of the model. |
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| The [Meta case with LLaMa 2 shown some issues](https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-open-source), has doesn't follow the 4 freedom, limit the commercial usage and also the purpose of the model. | |
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Either hasn't or doesn't.
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| With this version maybe is easier to understand how a component in a business can be valuable, but in Open Source it's ignored by those entities as they are not contributing to the future of this tiny piece. Another short version is [Sponsoring dependencies: The next step in open source sustainability](https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2022/06/sponsoring-dependencies-open-source-sustainability/), that makes more sense, after all every OSS project is based on other OSS projects that often don't get the deserved credits. | |||
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| [Another story is the one from Thunderbird project](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2741-take-your-foss-project-from-surviving-to-thriving/), that changed a lot: | |||
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| >In 2012, Thunderbird was pronounced dead. What happened next unfolded like a fairytale, as the Thunderbird project roared back to life on the shoulders of an incredibly generous community. Fast-forward to the end of 2022, and Thunderbird raised an astounding $6.4 million in donations. Within the last 3 years, it experienced a 326% revenue increase, quadrupled its core team, visually overhauled the desktop application, and announced plans to expand to Android and iOS. | |||
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| >In 2012, Thunderbird was pronounced dead. What happened next unfolded like a fairytale, as the Thunderbird project roared back to life on the shoulders of an incredibly generous community. Fast-forward to the end of 2022, and Thunderbird raised an astounding $6.4 million in donations. Within the last 3 years, it experienced a 326% revenue increase, quadrupled its core team, visually overhauled the desktop application, and announced plans to expand to Android and iOS. | |
| >In 2012, Thunderbird was considered dead. |
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„fairy tale” (with space I believe)
| #### The XZ Utils incident | ||
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| In 2024 a very important fact shocked the OSS world, a vulnerability (specifically a backdoor) was inserted in the XZ utility (a compress format, like for tar.xz files) that is a dependence in a lot of projects. | ||
| That code change allowed, as it was loaded the library, to start a backdoor that was hidden pretty good for few months and it was discovered because an user started benchmark why OpenSSH was slow, compared as before, and at the same time systemd was working to optimize their builds to not include the library when it was not used. |
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| That code change allowed, as it was loaded the library, to start a backdoor that was hidden pretty good for few months and it was discovered because an user started benchmark why OpenSSH was slow, compared as before, and at the same time systemd was working to optimize their builds to not include the library when it was not used. | |
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| The [timeline](https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline) was very interesting and as per open source it was transparent online and basically the whole fault is a psychological one. | ||
| The original maintainer, and creator of the project, didn't have so much time to follow the project and there was a lot of pressure in the community to add more maintainers with access to the project to speed up. The maintainer accepted a person that was completely anonymous, there was only a name without a photo. | ||
| The fact that the people giving pressure was other anonymous users just gives you the suspects that was everything planned as this project is present everywhere. |
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people is plural => was other anonymous users to „were”
| The same days a lot of people discovered this ticket on [ifupdown](https://github.com/ifupdown-ng/ifupdown-ng/issues/234), where an user just pushed a lot to get another contributor to the project. Also the same user asked in other projects to update the Xz library so there was a lot of attention in similar cases but seems that in this case it was just in good faith. | ||
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| I suggest to you to learn from the links otherwise we go outside the scope of the book. | ||
| What we can learn? |
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| What can we learn? |
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| * A single maintainer, in a hobby project, can be a base to attack everyone using FOSS projects | ||
| * Many maintainers are helpful and create a healthy project | ||
| * Find maintainers is not easy as requires a lot of skills and thrust |
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| * Find maintainers is not easy as requires a lot of skills and thrust | |
| * Find maintainers is not easy as it requires a lot of skills and trust |
| * A single maintainer, in a hobby project, can be a base to attack everyone using FOSS projects | ||
| * Many maintainers are helpful and create a healthy project | ||
| * Find maintainers is not easy as requires a lot of skills and thrust | ||
| * Often maintainers doesn't get credit or compensation for what they are doing |
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| * Often maintainers doesn't get credit or compensation for what they are doing | |
| * Often maintainers don't get credit or compensation for what they are doing |
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| * Privacy is important because it's possible to identify you even if you are navigating in private mode on the internet due to the proprietary feature of your browser full of bugs. | |||
| * Open source doesn't mean it is free, but that the project is under a license allowing specific things. So it's sometimes possible to get the code by paying it for example, like in WordPress plugin/theme ecosystem. | |||
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| > About Privacy | |||
| > It is a topic that growth a lot in the past years and there are tons of stories about why you should care of it. I want to share this to you [How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin](https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ads-to-find-targets-and-vladimir-putin/), to understand how much bigger can be. | |||
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| > It is a topic that growth a lot in the past years and there are tons of stories about why you should care of it. I want to share this to you [How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin](https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ads-to-find-targets-and-vladimir-putin/), to understand how much bigger can be. | |
| > It is a topic that grew a lot in the past years […] |
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Thanks the chapter is still a WIP and I have other stuff to add but I didn't have time right now. |
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Yeah, I used the suggestions on purpose here. Might make you read it another time. I invite you to mention me when you're ready for a review. |
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Yes, a new version is coming.
I don't have so much new stuff but it there will be something new anyway, including the recent typofixes by @22dt91.
If you have something that should be added just comment here :-)
TODO:
What is post-opensource?PS: I will do a grammaer check etc when everything is there