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November 2026 1 post
Petition: Open source work should count as volunteering in Germany – about 15,000 signatures still missing
A petition to the German Bundestag calls for open source work to be recognized as volunteer work, on a par with sports clubs or the rescue services. Roughly half of …
October 2026 2 posts
AI Ban on r/opensource: Who Actually Reviews the Code?
r/opensource and r/fossdroid are locking out AI-assisted projects, while the Linux kernel is dropping its label for AI code. Language models are a huge opportunity for free software, but somebody …
Microsoft Defender for Linux desktops: Finally I can sleep at night again
Microsoft brings its Defender to the Linux desktop. Against viruses that barely exist, for distributions I don't use, at prices I won't pay. Reason to celebrate, right?
