Nvidia announced this week that it acquired AI software firm SchedMD. SchedMD is the lead developer of Slurm (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management), a cluster management and job scheduling system for large and small Linux clusters. (“Slurm” is also the name of a soda in Futurama.) Nvidia stated that it “will continue to develop […]
An article appeared recently in The New Stack discussing the controversy over recent changes in Arduino’s Terms of Service. Adafruit, described in the article as one of Arduino’s competitors, claimed on Linkedin in a post with a graphic entitled “The Death of Arduino” that the new TOS meant Arduino’s users were “explicitly forbidden from reverse […]
Among intellectual property lawyers, there is an unspoken “20-year” rule: any technology more than 20 years before its time is not worth using to start a business. We say this because the period of patent protection is about 20 years. So, if you file a patent on an invention twenty years before its time, by […]
AI investments have been so hot over the last few years that they have eclipsed almost everything else. But AI companies have struggled to monetize their investments in model development, and investors are starting to get nervous about whether this latest and coolest technology can actually be the basis for a profitable business. But perhaps […]
Introduction The world of open source is full of passion and strong convictions. This can lead to disputes that arise from ideological differences around open source. But sometimes, strong convictions about open source converge with polarizing political debates to further raise the temperature within open source communities. This need not be the case, however. The […]
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License changes are an ongoing controversy in the COSS world. They go by many names, depending on your viewpoint: rug-pulls, bait and switch, or new-and-improved licenses. To understand this phenomenon, you need to dig below the headlines. The most notorious license changes have applied to popular open source projects, like Redis, Confluent, Elastic, Cockroach, and […]
