Tags: Open-Source

When subsidies fade, hardware catches up, and open models mature, all three lines cross in 2027. "Build your own AI" goes from idea to reality.

MinIO's repo is officially archived and abandoned. And how AI Agents helped bring MinIO back from the dead.

MinIO announces that it is entering maintenance mode: the dragon-slayer has become the dragon. This is how MinIO transformed from an open-source S3 alternative into just another commercial software company.

In serious production you can’t rely on an upstream that explicitly says “no guarantees.” When someone says “don’t count on me,” the right answer is “then I’ll run it myself.”

Founders here get asked the same question over and over: what if Alibaba builds the same thing? Alicloud RDS just launched Supabase as a managed service. Exhibit A.

Deleting images and running away - this isn't about commercial closed-source issues, but supply cut problems that directly destroy years of accumulated community trust.

The Linux community is essentially imperial — and Linus himself is the earliest and most successful technical dictator. People are used to Linus's generosity but forget this point.

When open source ideals meet commercial conflicts, what insights can this conflict between open source software communities and cloud vendors bring? On the importance of community boundary demarcation.

Switzerland's government leads the way with open source legislation, showing IT developing countries how to ensure software sovereignty and control. True autonomy and control stem from "open source communities," not some "nationalist" style "domestic software."

Redis "going non-open source" is not a disgrace to Redis, but a disgrace to "open source/OSI" and even more so to public cloud. What truly matters has always been software freedom, while open source is just one means to achieve software freedom.

PostgreSQL will not change its license. This article is a response from PostgreSQL core team members on this question.

Cloud databases' exorbitant markups—sometimes 10x or more—are undoubtedly a scam for users outside the applicable spectrum. But we can dig deeper: why are public clouds, especially cloud databases, like this? And based on their underlying logic, make predictions about the industry's future.

DDIA author Martin Kleppmann argues we should move away from GPL licenses. In the 2020s, the enemy of computing freedom is cloud software.