Overheard on recent project meeting with app devs, a minor tragedy of 'slipped lips sink ships',

> "We're shipping it for Lindows and Winux"

Die neue österreichische Bundesregierung muss #sparen.

Mein Vorschlag zu einer #Strategie im #Digitalbereich:

5% der #Kosten für #Softwarelizenzen (von Bund, Ländern und Gemeinden) werden permanent in #Opensource Projekte investiert.

Im #Bildungsbereich (Schulen und Universitäten) wird begonnen im #Unterricht auf #Software zu setzen, die den Anwendern schon gehört und die nach der Ausbildung weiter frei verwendet werden kann.

Behörden ziehen nach Möglichkeit nach.

Freie Werkzeuge machen freie Menschen!

It's a shame that people post things like this about OSS.
It's also why the top OSS have commercial companies backing them.
It's also why companies should support OSS that they use

And the bottom line ... If you believe in choosing alternatives to the big companies, cut them slack and be positive especially if they're not funded. Do you pay for software you use? Do you get what it takes to maintain and develop it?

Just finished the #RPi board support with #uboot #EFI in our beloved MTDA. First tried with the RPi EDK2 implementation, but that is far from being usable (who had the idea to convert a DT into ACPI tables???).

Even with Linux 6.12 many things do not work OOTB, like the RPi DTBOs cannot be used with the Kernels DT. Hence you manually need to port them - which is not trivial. #debian #linux #oss

https://github.com/siemens/mtda/pull/469

Um die Abhängigkeit der öffentlichen Verwaltung von Microsoft zu verringern, rief die Ampel-Regierung das @zendis ins Leben. Es soll unter anderem den Einsatz und die Weiterentwicklung von Open-Source-Lösungen vorantreiben. Doch der Bund behindert die Arbeit des Zentrums, statt diese zu fördern. #verwaltungsdigitalisierung #oss
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/zentrum-fuer-digitale-souveraenitaet-bund-legt-offener-verwaltungssoftware-steine-in-den-weg/

Just been to the Danish premiere of "Ada & Zangermann" - the movie. (https://ada.fsfe.org)
It struck me it had quite a bit of similarities to @pluralistic 's "unauthorized bread".
Turns out, not only was that story part of the inspiration. Cory also helped in the initial production of the book.

So if you're looking for a version of Unautorized bread, targeted from about 5 years (and with a much lighter view of the future) check out the book and/or movie!
#fsfe #FLOSS #OSS #AdaZangermann

Mar 27, 1914: Budd Schulberg was born on this date. During WW2 Schulberg was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services working with John Ford’s documentary unit.

Schulberg was among the 1st Americans to witness the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps and he pursued evidence for the war crimes trials.

He was also on the team that arrested Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.

#WW2 #OSS #Holocaust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd_Schulberg#World_War_II

"While politics shift and trade alliances fray, the open-source movement remains one of the most stable, borderless, and collaborative human endeavors on the planet."

Interesting read from openSUSE!

"Freedom Does Not Come From One Vendor"

news.opensuse.org/2025/03/26/freedom-is-not-one-vender/

#Linux #OpenSource #OSS #euOS

Bom dia! Hoje é dia de ConFLOSS Na Veia AO VIVO!

https://youtube.com/live/gJYNpuo3IZ8

Vem com a gente às 20h25min conhecer tudo sobre o nosso mais novo evento, a SouDevCon!

please, oooh please, just tell me no..

It's 2am and I just want one thing
a strong, handsome, sexy pair of SFP+
in a 10G ethernet switch, RISC-V cores
mod'able, jtag'able, RTOS'able, oooh yes

... so... in all seriousness, there have been lustful hardware-acquisition eyes on this pretty little design since its pre-release marketing materials hit the English speaking OSS internet, and have been watching from afar as its reviews came through, patiently.

I'm not one to say that tonight is the right time to buy a pair, but it's not NOT the right time to buy a pair of Milk-V Vega switches.

Main:
- https://milkv.io/vega

Detailed Community Review:
- Getting an overview of Vega Basics
- https://community.milkv.io/t/getting-an-overview-of-vega-basics/1665

*note: I am particularly aware of its limitations, do not expect a production grade switch, mostly want more risc-v hardware to develop with, and general messing around

Is there any OSS or FOSS e-mail client, for Linux or Windows that has native ActiveSync support (not EWS)?

I can't seem to find any, and considering it's been around "for a while", I would have thought there would be some (yes, I'm aware of all the fabulous *DAV variants, thanks).

(I mean, there are plenty of e-mail servers that run on Linux, for example, that has server-side support for it.)

SharpStyles v0.7.0 is out!
Now with @media query support — write responsive CSS directly in C#.
Perfect for #Blazor devs who want testable, component-driven styles.

Big thanks to Mabrouk Mehdhi for his amazing OSS contributions!

#dotnet #CSharp #OSS #SharpStyles

https://www.nuget.org/packages/SharpStyles/0.7.0

EventHighway v1.0 is out!
Now with scheduled (eventual) events — a game-changer for distributed systems in .NET.

Huge thanks to @zafar_urakov for the incredible work!

Available on NuGet
#dotnet #OSS #EventDriven #DistributedSystems #EventHighway

https://www.nuget.org/packages/EventHighway/1.0.0

From the Coffee & OSS Archives, I chatted with Jeremy Sinclair about all sorts of great #tech and #oss topics. Access the stream or listen to the podcast below. Be sure to like/subscribe. Thanks for tuning in!
https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/guest/jeremy-sinclair.html

Mildt sagt uheldig valg av forkortelse for «offentlig skysamdrift» (#OSS) når dette internasjonalt er brukt for «Open-source software».

Prøv å forklare en leder at en skal kunne kjøre OSS på OSS?

https://gemini.no/2025/03/staten-kjoper-datatjenester-fra-usa-slik-kan-sarbarheten-minskes/