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Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
• www.jeffgeerling.com
I hate the recent open-source rise
• www.jvt.me
FreeBSD – A Lesson in Poor Defaults
• vez.mrsk.me
10 Trillion downloads are crushing open-source repositories
• www.zdnet.com
Young people explicitly banned from openSUSE – urgent call for reversal
• lists.opensuse.org
Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy
• www.pietschsoft.com
An Introduction to Meshtastic
• meshtastic.org
CERN's KiCad component library now open source
• home.cern
How I made $350K from an open-source JavaScript library using dual licensing
• www.paritydeals.com
Going Full Time on Open Source
• jdx.dev
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
• www.digitalfoundry.net
TornadoVM
• github.com
Revisiting the 2015 Open Source Census
• nesbitt.io
Write some software, give it away for free
• nonogra.ph
Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader
• github.com
Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025)
• sethmlarson.dev
Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter
• www.theverge.com
Open source does not imply open community
• blog.feld.me
Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
• www.clojuriststogether.org
A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf]
• mirandaheath.website
An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open
• keepthingsopen.com
NHS Goes to War Against Open Source
• shkspr.mobi
The Rotary Un-Smartphone (2023)
• skysedge.com
Text-to-CAD
• github.com