This week, we discuss Redis Relicensing, Progress acquiring MariaDB and Microsoft unbundling Teams. Plus, Coté shares his Top 10 Tech and Productivity Wish List for regulators.
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The Fork is a feature not a bugRelicensing: The path to Private EquityIs this Progress?Hot Antitrust ActionGive it to Switzerland, they can hold our calendarsWon’t someone think of the children?Cote’s airing of (Apple) grievancesThe deepest of pocketsFine-adjacent.Not complicated enoughWhat’s it called when they plateau going down?Frankenstein Grand Theory of Open Source Business Modelsa large, wide portfolio of things that you’re vaguely aware ofMostly contrastRundown
Zuck Just Entered the Fediverse: Here’s What That MeansRedisRIP Redis: How Garantia Data pulled off the biggest heist in open source historyRedis tightens its license terms, pleasing no oneBattle of the Redis forks?Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabalsWhy AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis forkOpen Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for GrantedLinux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey CommunityIs this Progress?Progress Software considering an offer for MariaDB plc (NASDAQ:PRGS).Progress Software Confirms Bid to Acquire MariaDB.Database popularity indexExclusive: Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutinyGoogle defends auto-deletion of chats after US alleged it destroyed evidence20 years of GmailCote's Top 10 Tech & Productivity Wishlist for Regulators
Clickable Links in Instagram Captions: Make it easier to direct followers to relevant content.Unified Social Media: Allow seamless posting across platforms, ideally leveraging Twitter's existing reach.Native ChatGPT Downloads: Eliminate the need for external plugins to download chat sessions.Universal Link Insertion Shortcut: Standardize link insertion across apps (Cmd-K for everyone!).Apple Notes Customization & Integration: Enable background customization and merge with Freeform to challenge GoodNotes' dominance.Universal Free/Busy Calendar: Facilitate effortless scheduling across platforms.Standardized Markdown Export: Ensure all major word processors export in a common markdown format (Gruber or Common Markdown).Granular Screen Time Controls: Empower users with detailed control over device usage.Regulate Car Rental Insurance Fees: Put a stop to excessive and unfair insurance charges by rental companies.Bring Back Google Reader! (Okay, this one's a personal plea, but wouldn't it be great?)Relevant to your Interests
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keysReddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC InquiryApache KvrocksEx-technology companiesFTX to Sell Two-Thirds of Anthropic Stake for $884 Million“Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11Adam Neumann bids over $500 million to buy back WeWork, source saysIntroducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLMMarissa Mayer's startup just rolled out photo sharing and event planning apps, and the internet isn't sure what to think | TechCrunchKey takeaways from the Entrust incidentAmazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yetStepping on the Gas - Observe, Inc.Bankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Over FTX CollapseDatabricks CEO Says Competition Spurred High-Profile Exit at SnowflakeSnowflake's Meltdown Is Not Drastic Enough - Still Expensive HereFlox 1.0: Containerless development environments using NixApple to Launch New iPad Pro and iPad Air Models in MayA US Business Tax Law Change That Partially Caused Layoffs (Section 174)Results of 2024 elections of OSI board of directorsTo the pharmacy and beyond: Drug development goes to spaceAT&T says personal data from 73 million current and former account holders leaked onto dark webGoogle agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito modeKubeCon EU 2024 Paris: Key TakeawaysAmazon cuts hundreds of jobs in cloud computing unitIntel slides as foundry business loss spotlights wide gap with rival TSMCScathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hackCalifornia Law Would Give Workers ‘Right to Disconnect’ From Employer’s Messages Outside Work HoursYahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-foundersThe Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Diskwhy I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source projectEnsuring a Project's Long-Term Survival with William MorganTennr puts fax machines back in vogue for healthcare organizations using AI, as it secures $18m from a16zAmazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery StoresA few thoughts on the Apple DOJ antitrust case, from someone who isn’t riding his first rodeoNonsense
Some New England universities and colleges break $90,000 barrier for total cost in upcoming school yearAs markets soar, should investors look beyond America?Conferences
Tanzu Defined, online, April 3rd, 2024 - but check the replay in LinkedIn or YouTube.Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking.NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19 -to21, 2024, Coté speaking.DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube.Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!Recommendations
Brandon: 3 Body ProblemMatt: Uni Jetstream Pen, 0.5 mmCoté: First chapter of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden - so this is what a “sandbox” adventure is. Related, my overview of making huge D&D maps with Midjourney. Also, though I might have recommended it before, this is both good in its own and fascinating from an Internet-artist perspective. And I don’t even like house (can’t they take that damn beat out so we can hear the actual mish-mash of music without that metal scrapping on Brillo pads all the time?) https://youtu.be/EgepxKANDGc?si=hO6_092WONyp-QUIHeaderArtwork
