Tag: GitHub
GitHub Copilot Is Only Effective Because It Steals Open Source Code
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a non-profit community of open source advocates, announced its withdrawal from GitHub today in a scathing blog post urging...
An Open Source Organisation Has Left GitHub And Encourages You To...
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a non-profit dedicated to free and open source software (FOSS), has announced that it will no longer use Microsoft's...
Credentials Or Thousands Of Open Source Projects Are At Risk
Thousands of authentication tokens and other security-sensitive secrets are being leaked by a service that assists open source developers in writing and testing software....
Atom Text Editor Will Officially Be Terminated Later This Year
On December 15, Microsoft's GitHub will shut down Atom, its open source text editor that inspired and influenced widely used commercial apps such as...
Open Source Initiative Releases News Blog On WordPress
The Open Source Initiative (OSI), a public benefit corporation that oversees the Open Source Definition, has launched a WordPress news blog. Stefano Maffulli was...
GitHub ‘Sponsors’ Is Live For Developers To Receive Financial Support
The Microsoft-owned open source repository platform GitHub has announced that its 'Sponsors' program is now available in India, and developers can create 'Sponsors' profiles...
Intel Open Sources SYCLomatic Migration Tool
Through a project called SYCLomatic, Intel has released an open source tool to migrate code to SYCL1. This tool helps developers more easily port...
The Interconnected Community is the Real Backbone of Open Source
Every company that uses technology today is using open source in some way or the other. Open source is accelerating software as well as...
Codespaces for Multi-Repository and Monorepo Scenarios
Today, we’re releasing exciting improvements that will streamline your Codespaces experience when working with multi-repository projects and monorepos. Codespaces are instant cloud-powered development environments...
Documentation Isn’t Just Another Aspect of Open Source Development
Some projects live on, while some die a premature death – and the difference between the two often lies in the documentation. Meticulous, smart...