Glad to see the work I led at OSI paying off. The G7 Digital Ministers in Paris published the G7 Vision on AI openness opportunities and shared language using the language of the Open Source AI Definition to describe Open Source AI.

As high-profile websites vanish, it’s a reminder that the web has no built-in archival layer. But some publishers are now blocking the Wayback Machine. What’s at stake if the web stops being archived? Our new FAQ explains: preserving the public record matters. 🌐📚 help.archive.org/help/faq-pub...

That’s why I’ve joined Grist Labs as Chief Revenue Officer. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/04/28/joining-grist-labs/ #career #grist #OpenSource

Diving into Stanford HAI 2026 AI Index Report, I noticed this chart, Figure 1.6.6. The European downward trend is quite worrying. It means that Europeans not only aren't building applications, but they're also increasingly less capable of producing AI research, too? #AI #OpenSourceAI #Sovereignty

An easy solution is for the Euro-Office and Ascensio System SIA to talk and negotiate a business agreement. I bet that this was only an oversight that can be solved quickly. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/04/07/code-is-not-a-moat-why-the-euro-office-squabble-is-a-strategy-failure/ #eu

Why I’m joining Grist Labs to lead revenue generation & the open source business strategy https://www.maffulli.net/2026/04/28/joining-grist-labs/ #career #grist #OpenSource

Re-reading one of my recent articles: `we are witnessing the Second Liberation: If the GNU GPL was the legal hack for freedom, AI is the technical one. Claude is more liberating than the GNU GPL` s/Claude/"Your favorite Open Source AI model": will that make the statement more acceptable?

Round number!

I’ve joined Grist Labs as Chief Revenue Officer https://www.maffulli.net/2026/04/28/joining-grist-labs/ #career #grist #OpenSource

In recent years, @getgrist.bsky.social has been gaining traction among users, whether they’re open source enthusiasts or not, competing with large incumbents on quality. I joined the company https://www.maffulli.net/2026/04/28/joining-grist-labs/

Grist is a low-code app builder that prioritizes security, flexibility, and extendibility by design. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/04/28/joining-grist-labs/ #career #grist #OpenSource

Following the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) and Data Governance paper and conference, it’s clear: creators shouldn't be passive sources. They must be active participants in the AI lifecycle. My latest research explores how. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/24/preference-signaling/

The public fight that followed the launch of “Euro-Office” doesn’t look good for anyone involved. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/04/07/code-is-not-a-moat-why-the-euro-office-squabble-is-a-strategy-failure/ #eu #eurostack #onlyoffice #OpenSource #sovereignty

If the GNU GPL was the legal hack for freedom, AI is the technical one https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/16/ai-final-frontier-of-copyleft/ #ai #chardet #copyleft #gpl #OpenSource #SoftwareFreedom

The license alone is a very weak moat https://www.maffulli.net/2026/04/07/code-is-not-a-moat-why-the-euro-office-squabble-is-a-strategy-failure/ #eu #eurostack #onlyoffice #OpenSource #sovereignty

How do we turn AI "expropriation" back into "contribution"? Read the research and let's define the future of the digital commons together. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/24/preference-signaling/ #ai #datagovernance #OpenSource

I believe ONLYOFFICE moved in the right direction using their trademarks, although a copyright license is the wrong tool to enforce it. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/04/07/code-is-not-a-moat-why-the-euro-office-squabble-is-a-strategy-failure/ #eu #eurostack #onlyoffice #OpenSource

Digital public spaces need more than regulation; they need public infrastructure. Our new policy brief (authored by @aditya.myatproto.social and Zuzanna Warso) proposes public investment in interoperable, commons-based communication infrastructure. openfuture.eu/publication/...

Code is not a moat: Why the Euro-Office squabble is a strategy failure https://www.maffulli.net/2026/04/07/code-is-not-a-moat-why-the-euro-office-squabble-is-a-strategy-failure/ #eu #eurostack #onlyoffice #OpenSource #sovereignty

An easy solution is for the Euro-Office and Ascensio System SIA to talk and negotiate a business agreement. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/04/07/code-is-not-a-moat-why-the-euro-office-squabble-is-a-strategy-failure/ #eu #eurostack #onlyoffice #OpenSource #sovereignty

Euro-Office is only a tech preview, so the consortium has time to recover from what I think is a faux pas. Hopefully, they’ll recover quickly. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/04/07/code-is-not-a-moat-why-the-euro-office-squabble-is-a-strategy-failure/ #eu #eurostack #onlyoffice #OpenSource

TDF ejects its core developers and Collabora announces that it's forking LibreOffice. #Sovereignty #OpenSource www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-eje...

Let's test some legal theory #copyright

The first liberation gave us the code; the second liberation gives us the mastery of it. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/16/ai-final-frontier-of-copyleft/ #ai #chardet #copyleft #gpl #OpenSource #SoftwareFreedom

AI developers aren’t just “mining” the commons; they should participate in a reciprocal loop where models improve with better, consented data. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/24/preference-signaling/ #ai #datagovernance #OpenSource

I recognize that this will not be a popular opinion, but I think it's true. And I hope people will read the whole thing before they start yelling at me based on the headline.

You did it! 🥳 European Parliament just decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop. This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must stop scanning your private messages in the EU. #PrivacyWins 💪

The fundamental goal of the Free Software movement was individual agency over the machine. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/16/ai-final-frontier-of-copyleft/ #ai #chardet #copyleft #gpl #OpenSource #SoftwareFreedom

Following the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) and Data Governance paper and conference, it’s clear: creators shouldn't be passive sources. They must be active participants in the AI lifecycle. My latest research explores how. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/24/preference-signaling/

Following the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) and Data Governance paper and conference, it’s clear: creators shouldn't be passive sources. They must be active participants in the AI lifecycle. My latest research explores how. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/24/preference-signaling/

The "take without give" era of AI development is breaking the social contract. We need a way to tell machines what they can and can’t do with the data they harvest. My latest research maps the way forward. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/24/preference-signaling/

The Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) was a massive step for transparency, but it doesn't solve the data governance gap alone. My new paper explores how to bridge the gap between raw data collection and ethical stewardship. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/24/preference-signaling/

OS level age verification is a Meta lobbying project Pass it on

⭐ OpenCloud has just reached 5,000 stars on GitHub! Huge congrats! 🎉 Secure cloud file sharing with complete data sovereignty

As we watch developers rewrite foundational libraries like Chardet in a weekend or build complex “Artifact Keepers” from scratch using AI, we are witnessing the Second Liberation https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/16/ai-final-frontier-of-copyleft/

Simon Willison's "Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty" highlights an opportunity for the PSF or another foundation: move uv to a non-profit like the LF to keep the Open Source collaboration neutral. Spin off Pyx into a lean corporation owned by the non-profit (PSF, for example.)

When you say "buy European," you must be aware that the answer is not as clear cut as it seems. EU cloud service providers are bringing Broadcom before the EU antitrust authority. arstechnica.com/information-...

The second liberation: AI is the final frontier of Copyleft https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/16/ai-final-frontier-of-copyleft/ #ai #chardet #copyleft #gpl #OpenSource #SoftwareFreedom

The “freedom to fork” was a theoretical right that required thousands of dollars in labor or years of study to exercise. AI code assistants are collapsing that cost https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/16/ai-final-frontier-of-copyleft/ #ai #chardet

Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June. A story to be studied in business schools for many years.

The “tyranny of the vendor” is finally meeting its match, not in a courtroom, but in the prompt. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/16/ai-final-frontier-of-copyleft/

If the GNU GPL was the legal hack for freedom, AI is the technical one https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/16/ai-final-frontier-of-copyleft/ #ai #chardet #copyleft #gpl #OpenSource #SoftwareFreedom

Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because of AI scraping. But shutting out a nonprofit library won’t stop AI—it will damage the public’s best record of the web.

To keep the ecosystem resilient, Open Source organizations should view funding as a three-pillar strategy. This moves the conversation away from total dependency and toward a more balanced ecosystem. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/02/01/stop-begging-the-case-for-paid-open-source/

How is it fair that gigantic companies pay peanuts to the foundations of an ecosystem worth 9+ trillions of dollars? https://www.maffulli.net/2026/02/01/stop-begging-the-case-for-paid-open-source/ #NonProfit #OpenSource

Novamira – Full WordPress access for AI agents https://www.maffulli.net/2026/02/27/novamira-full-wordpress-access-for-ai-agents/ #ai #mcp #wordpress

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/