The article is well written and connects multiple topics: line of code and care work to the software, computer architecture and speed, its industry and more.
Debian 12, for comparison, is 1,341,564,204 lines of code. For comparison, Google Chrome is about 40 million lines, which is in the same ballpark as the Linux kernel these days. No one, even a team, can read these entirely.
Computers aren't much faster now than they were a decade ago, and they will probably never again return to the rate of performance improvement they had for 60 years up to the mid-noughties.
The thing is, that doesn't scale very well. On the desktop we have four-core machines and now we're moving to eight-plus cores, but a single person can't use that very helpfully, so instead, we're getting computers with a mixture of high-performance but hot, power-hungry cores, and lower-performance, cooler, but more electrically-efficient cores.
A limit to multiple cores is the Amdahl's law: even if a program can be made 95 per cent parallel, the maximum speedup you can get is about 20 times, no matter how many processor cores you throw at it.
But it’s deeper that that. Open source is good for humanity. It’s only slightly hyperbolic to say that open source is one of the most notable collective successes of humankind as a species! It’s one of the few places where essentially all of humanity works together on something that benefits everyone. A world without open source would be substantially worse than the world we live in.
Alors comment livre-t-on un produit OSS? Voici l'exemple de uMap et OSM fr.
Legit on Hacktoberfest.
- Universality
- Open Standards
- Open Web Platform (OWP)
- Open Government through Open Data
- Openness with personal data on the Social Net
- Open Platform
- Open Source
- Open Access
- Open Internet and Net Neutrality
Too many websites could generate nice reports as documents, but had no way to access the data behind it to check and build on the results.
The act of inviting users (and writing usage instructions aimed at a general audience is an act of inviting users) forms an agreement between me as a maintainer and the user.
It depends indeed: if someone invites users, or simply publish it as is.
Curl reached the 3 000 contributors
We cannot say much about the contributors because in an effort to lower the bars and reduce friction, we also do not ask them about details.
Also the graph about contributor commits is special! There are so many contributors with 1 commits or between 2-5.
Presumption of innocence -> every person is considered innocent until proven guilty.
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Presumption of bug-free -> every issue is considered innocent until proven with minimal reproduction.
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Because it could supports more project and make them sustainable.
Engage with your customer with voice or messaging with a single easy-to-use platform.
Might be useful
Because without reproduction, it takes so much time!
Open Source Software is served "as-is"
So provide a repro or don't open an issue.
- Better appreciate the OSS work
- A better understanding of the underlying tools you use and the benefits with it
- Deepen the knowledge of the programming languages with state-of-the-art examples
- Learning workflows and communication with other devs
- Open to job opportunities
Toute l'information des entreprises
Gratuite, intelligente, complète« Notre conviction chez Pappers est que la donnée juridique et financière des entreprises doit être gratuite et ouverte à tous. » — Pierre Fruchard, Co-fondateur de Pappers
Pour éviter que des informations publiques soient captifs de portails.
Bonne initiative !
Parce qu'on mutualise les coûts pour les entreprises, et qu'il est préférable de payer pour se faire aider dans l'exploitation de ces logiciels. On ne paie qu'avec la valeur recue plutôt que les licences :)
Why give up GitHub?
- Copilot is a for-profit product that violated licenses
- GitHub has a for-profit software services contract with the USA Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
- While GitHub pretends to be pro-FOSS (like SourceForge before them), their entire hosting site is, itself, proprietary and/or trade-secret software. GitHub differs from most of its peers in the FOSS project hosting industry, as GitHub does not even offer any self-hosting FOSS option. Their entire codebase is secret.
- GitHub has long sought to discredit copyleft generally. Their various CEOs have often spoken loudly and negatively about copyleft
- GitHub is wholly owned by Microsoft, a company whose executives have historically repeatedly attacked copyleft licensing.
How do I give up?
Hard because vendor lock-in.
Alternatives?
CodeBerg, SourceHut, Gitea, Gitlab.
Use a README template to make others aware