I can’t think of a European alternative to Cloudflare except maybe Myra, a product I’ve never used because its pricing doesn’t align with the companies I worked with/for. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/01/12/distractions/ #business

Why are we spending more on marketing but getting worse results? Gee Ranasinha's keynote from the Mautic World Conference tackles the emotional and psychological drivers we ignore in our rush to automate everything. Premieres today at 4pm GMT. Join us in the chat: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QEY...

Sorry, I think this is a major tactical mistake. This scale delivers the message that Open Source is some sort of sliding scale *and* it pitches communities against each other, "I'm more open than you" type of drama. We don't need this. dri.es/the-software... #OpenSource #Eurostack #BuyEuropean

It’s an interesting academic exercise, not a “production-ready” compiler. But it raises a question: How much of it is a copyright-relevant copy of existing code? https://www.maffulli.net/2026/02/09/sixteen-claude-ai-agents-working-together-created-a-new-c-compiler-ars-technica/

To keep the ecosystem resilient, Open Source organizations should view funding as a three-pillar strategy. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/02/01/stop-begging-the-case-for-paid-open-source/ #NonProfit #OpenSource

how much of the code of the new C compiler published on GitHub resembles, imitates, or straight-up copies the code of other C compilers publicly released? https://www.maffulli.net/2026/02/09/sixteen-claude-ai-agents-working-together-created-a-new-c-compiler-ars-technica/

OSMAnd has a much better designed map than Google Maps: walking directions are much more clearly visible, buildings, squares, roads are more clearly marked, allowing walkers to see at a glance where they need to go. Google Maps is optimized for cars and bikes, the route is a lane.

Now it’s time for other 501(c)3 charitable organizations to change tack, stop relying only on the sharks to drop the leftovers and start developing pay-to-play schemes. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/02/01/stop-begging-the-case-for-paid-open-source/ #NonProfit

It’s not just the organizations with archives that can force companies to pay for services they rely on. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/02/01/stop-begging-the-case-for-paid-open-source/ #NonProfit #OpenSource

We need to stop begging only for donations and start integrating Open Source costs into the standard language of procurement and service contracts. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/02/01/stop-begging-the-case-for-paid-open-source/ #NonProfit #OpenSource

Stop begging: The case for paid Open Source https://www.maffulli.net/2026/02/01/stop-begging-the-case-for-paid-open-source/ #NonProfit #OpenSource

Pausing the 2026 Board Election cycle to improve how OSI selects Directors and hears the community https://opensource.org/blog/2026-osi-elections-update

Un par de ofertas de trabajo en Fundación Eclipse: * Software Engineer: eclipsefoundation.applytojob.com/apply/eXFgac... * Software Developer: eclipsefoundation.applytojob.com/apply/mvaSS7... Y más en eclipsefoundation.applytojob.com/apply/

How do we secure the invisible infrastructure of our digital future? Join tomorrow’s Software Heritage Symposium to discuss keeping the software commons resilient. https://tinyurl.com/SWH10 #OpenSource

The European tech lags behind its US and Chinese counterparts, and we can’t respond by talking about democracy and “values” instead. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/01/12/distractions/ #business #eurostack

This is pretty neat, indeed. Think blogging without suffering the SEO tax. #Opensource

Building alternatives to the hyperscalers in Europe will take years of serious investments in products that CIOs and CTOs will want to buy. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/01/12/distractions/ #business #eurostack

We need to focus on building European alternatives to the US tech https://www.maffulli.net/2026/01/12/distractions/ #business #eurostack

A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped: NHS Open Source Policies - All Quietly Removed… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQqFNP39sKM A short video to talk about the recently-discovered loss of NHS England's various Open Source pol...

More excitement from @FOSDEM.org schedule: Turning a cheap commercial vacuum cleaner into a useful Open Source mapping tool #hacker #robotics #AI #OpenSource fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

More Open Source AI (the real deal): Full code, data, and model family with OSI-approved licenses (MIT and ASLv2). Code: github.com/moxin-org Models: huggingface.co/moxin-org Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.222... #OpenSourceAI #OpenSource #AI

This is probably the most wonderful @fosdem.org talk of the year: Hacking a Mercedes car seat to use at home. Have you seen anything more exciting? fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

Cloudflare CEO’s rant is yet another opportunity to realize how much European products lag behind US and Chinese ones. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/01/12/distractions/ #business #eurostack

I guess all we need to have a European cloud is to give a corporate card to #FOSDEM attendees and let them build the servers that will replace the evil Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, etc. Seriously? https://www.maffulli.net/2026/01/12/distractions/

Too many distractions from the mandate to build products Europeans want to buy https://www.maffulli.net/2026/01/12/distractions/ #business #eurostack

chinstrap.community/arduino-term... #COSS #GPL #OpenSource #oss #Startups

Could we have avoided this AI? https://www.maffulli.net/2026/01/12/could-we-have-avoided-this-ai/ #ai

Good: The XPS is back. BAD: The keyboard is the god-awful XPS13 Plus Good: The keyboard is black (not that disaster light grey keys+white symbols) BAD: The XPS13 is not ready yet #Dell #XPS #laptop arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

His work implies that without a clear legal framework that respects the “commons,” the Open Source AI movement risks being stifled by proprietary black boxes or bogged down by infinite litigation. https://www.maffulli.net/2025/12/16/book-review-the-artificial-author/

The "Artificial Author" is a misnomer and that’s the point. The book challenges the anthropomorphic language. If an AI "hallucinates", who owns the dream? The prompter, the coder, or the public domain? https://www.maffulli.net/2025/12/16/book-review-the-artificial-author/

“Siri doesn’t understand my accent.” It’s not you, it’s the data. @mozdatacollective.bsky.social is working with communities around the world to build more representative datasets that actually reflect how people speak, text, and live. https://bit.ly/48Occh4

Copyright isn't dead, but it is definitely under construction. For a sober, legally grounded, and forward-thinking analysis of AI and IP, grab a copy of Simone Aliprandi’s The Artificial Author.. https://www.maffulli.net/2025/12/16/book-review-the-artificial-author/

One thing I've learned about @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social: she doesn't hold punches. This interview with Julius Krein (American Affairs) is a gut punch. Worth listening to, but be prepared for the rage to mount. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP5s... #Europe #Sovereignity

Crucially for me, The Artificial Author fits alongside the work I led at the @opensource.org Copyright isn't dead, but it is definitely under construction. Grab a copy of Simone Aliprandi’s book https://www.maffulli.net/2025/12/16/book-review-the-artificial-author/

The clearest explanation I’ve read of the difference betw… https://www.maffulli.net/2025/12/17/25053/

Mozilla is doing the only thing possibile for Firefox: evolve and reach to new audience with a product that people want to use. The alternative is to die trying to satisfy a shrinking user base. Go on, @firefox.com you're on the right track.

Really great to see NVIDIA staking out a pro-open data position. This used to be common, if not the norm in AI, and the backing away from this level of transparency has done a lot of harm to the research community.

@Mautic.org, the largest #OpenSource #marketing automation product, adapts its prices to the local purchasing power. Interesting approach mautic.org/blog/introdu...

The current wave of litigation against AI labs isn't about infringement: it's a battle over the definition of fair use in the 21st century. The Artificial Author dissects the legal status of training data https://www.maffulli.net/2025/12/16/book-review-the-artificial-author/

NVIDIA keeps releasing models and now datasets, too. It's time to read the licenses nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-... Starting from: * The "NVIDIA Data Agreement for Model Training" huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...

In The Artificial Author, Italian lawyer and researcher Simone Aliprandi tackles the collision of generative artificial intelligence with the centuries-old framework of copyright law. https://www.maffulli.net/2025/12/16/book-review-the-artificial-author/

dear DHH Fizzy has a long list of Open Source dependencies. Fizzy relies on #OpenSource as defined by @opensource.org You didn't have to ask for permissions by the hundreds of contributors to the Ruby packages used by your new product.

Memorization in AI is a narrow technical term: Using the same term for copyright discussions leads to bad policy. "Treating it as anything but a category error risks of stretching copyirght law far beyond its original purpose" by Aline Larroyed ailab.transistor.fm/episodes/ai-...

Change is hard, and the debate surrounding AI is proving to be highly polarizing. @mozilla.org is doing the right thing https://www.maffulli.net/2025/11/24/internet-is-changing-browsers-need-to-adapt/ #ai #freedom #mozilla

Will this pass Trump's cabinet scrutiny? about.netflix.com/en/news/netf...

Firefox must change to adapt to the latest web, the team needs to run experiments, explore the new technology, learn, and master it so that it can stay Open and true to the @Mozilla.org Manifesto. https://www.maffulli.net/2025/11/24/internet-is-changing-browsers-need-to-adapt/

It is both true that: 1️⃣ nationally, data centers use way less water than golf courses 2️⃣ locally, if your watershed and supply are extremely constrained (or as here, horribly mismanaged) dropping a data center into the mix may tip you and your neighbors into a very bad situation

As expected, the opinion I published earlier raised some eyebrow. ICYMI here it is: www.maffulli.net/2025/12/03/a... @Pierre-Yves pointed out that the French police migrated 70k desktops to Ubuntu and LibreOffice 15+ years ago. And that's exactly my point.

Asking the EU to drop Microsoft Office is pointless https://www.maffulli.net/2025/12/03/asking-the-eu-to-drop-microsoft-office-is-pointless/ #eu #migration #policy

Internet is changing, browsers need to adapt https://www.maffulli.net/2025/11/24/internet-is-changing-browsers-need-to-adapt/ #ai #freedom #mozilla