A trillion dollars wiped from software stocks. cURL forced to shut down its bug bounty over AI slop. Proxmox replacing VMware at enterprise scale.

The SaaS apocalypse is real, but it's not the end of software. It's the beginning of OpenSource's biggest era.

I wrote about what FOSDEM 2026 revealed, why maintainers need to embrace AI tools or risk being forked, and how even niche projects like https://www.thefreelantern.com now exist because creation costs collapsed.

https://hackernoon.com/the-saas-apocalypse-is-opensources-greatest-opportunity

#OpenSource #Linux #FOSDEM #SaaS #AI #FreeSoftware

Tags.Pub

I spoke with @evan at #Fosdem about his project tags.pub. It sounded like a good idea, so we enabled their relay on our server  to see how it works.

In Mastodon, you can follow hashtags. This shows all posts with this tag, known to your server, in your timeline. But it will only show the posts known by your server. (1/3)

Hey, i got a rather suave present from #fosdem! 😍

Lovely

#mastodon

Today's the deadine on track submissions for #FOSSY! Don't forget to get yours in! FOSSY follows the #FOSDEM model, with community led tracks, so you all decide what the content of the conference is!

https://sfconservancy.org/fossy/community-tracks/

#FOSSY26

Offline with no CRDTs?!

At #FOSDEM earlier this month our colleague Alex Feyerke got to introduce Local-First pioneers @couchdb and @pouchdb in the @localfirst devroom, a space dedicated to all things sync, P2P and conflict resolution.

Check out Alex’ talk: https://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/FOSDEM/video/2026/k3201/SDHGJY-local-first-meet-pouchdb-couchdb.mp4

And the great company we were in: https://openlocalfirst.org/#program

All recordings are now up here: https://video.fosdem.org/2026/k3201/

RE: https://zug.network/@lewd/116002479829403643

ICYMI: Check out this epic thread by @lewd on how to travel by (sleeper) train from Brussels to Bangkok! 😮😮😮 #fossrail #fosdem #fossasia

While rumours of a possible owner change of #suse make rounds, check out the #EU_OS #fosdem talk slides at https://eu-os.eu/assets/slides/2026-01-31-fosdem-linux-distro.pdf

#EU_OS encourages all #Linux distributors aiming to offer high #DigitalSovereignty to setup non-profit foundations to increase ownership stability.

Follow @eu_os for updates!

Wow, ho appena scoperto di essere stato inserito nello starter pack del FOSDEM tra i relatori del Social Web: che onore, grazie! ❤️

 https://fedidevs.com/s/ODE0/

Dategli un’occhiata: è davvero una bella lista di persone che lavorano ogni giorno per rendere il web un posto migliore.

Se vi interessano altri starter pack del Fediverso, vi consiglio anche questo:
⁂ https://fedidevs.com/s/Nzcz/

Articolo pubblicato anche nel gruppo Fediverso: @fediverso

#fediverso #fediverse #fosdem #starterpack

The PerlOnJava talk from FOSDEM 2026 is now online.

PerlOnJava: A Perl distribution for the JVM
📅 Feb 1, 2026 - Flavio Soibelmann Glock

Video:
https://video.fosdem.org/2026/h2215/NGYLQZ-perlonjava_a_perl_distribution_for_the_jvm.av1.webm

#Perl #JVM #FOSDEM #PerlOnJava