This is important.
The Dutch government is blocking a United States-based company's attempts to acquire a key online identification IT supplier.
And says something about the mistrust of US tech companies by now.
#techsovereignty #digital #infrastructure
https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-blocks-us-takeover-vital-digital-supplier/
"Science runs on Open Source. Let’s fund it."
Three years ago I blogged about #nuget serving outdated #curl packages.
They then removed the packages I found.
I checked nuget again *today* and immediately found a nine year old curl package that is downloaded at the rate of 1,000 times/week from there... with **64** known vulnerabilities.
The blog post from back then: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/02/the-curl-nuget-story/
Recently there has been an interesting debate in the Open Source world where people have objected to being called "Suppliers" as in Supply Chain Security when you are but an Open Source developer offering your code to the world for free and at no cost but also without any warranties. That is not a supplier, … Continue reading The curl nuget story →
IRC made me do #curl
In 1991, a uni student from Finland started a "hobby" project because he couldn't afford to pay expensive Unix license that could run on a commodity hardware. At the time, he told on the mailing list that his project wouldn't be anything "big or professional."
It turned out that he was totally wrong.
Happy 56th Birthday to the creator of Linux kernel and git, Linus Torvalds! May you live healthy and happy forever. Thank you for all your hard work and providing us employment and keep it FLOSS😊
Claes de Vreese ☑️
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