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The EU needs a corporate “open source contribution tax” to fund open source maintainers

Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars (also a big number). Most of it is one person. And I can promise you not one of those single person projects have the proper amount of resource

https://www.osnews.com/story/143211/the-eu-needs-a-corporate-open-source-contribution-tax-to-fund-open-source-maintainers/

#OpenSource

The EU needs a corporate “open source contribution tax” to fund open source maintainers

Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars (also a big number). Most of it is one person. And I can promise you not one of those single person projects have the proper amount of resource

https://www.osnews.com/story/143211/the-eu-needs-a-corporate-open-source-contribution-tax-to-fund-open-source-maintainers/

#OpenSource

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alcinnz
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This second post in the Tyr series dives deeper into GPU driver internals by using the Vulkan-based VkCube application to explain how User Mode Drivers (UMDs) and Kernel Mode Drivers (KMDs) work together to execute GPU workloads: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/08/06/writing-a-rust-gpu-kernel-driver-a-brief-introduction-on-how-gpu-drivers-work/

#OpenSource #Rust

alcinnz
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DX.

Why did it take me so long to think of 😱 instead of trying to say "you know, UX but for library APIs"

Now I can just say: Hey FontConfig, you have terrible DX!

(I have long pushed on the idea that design is a required skill for programming code, not just GUIs or even CLIs, but the code itself should be designed too)

#UX#DX#foss#opensource #programming #design

Michael Downey 🧢
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🏆 A big milestone along a decade-long road.

🌐 Governments around the world now understand the value of #OpenSource for global digital cooperation, & are rapidly working to become "good citizens" in the global community. Efforts like the #UN Open Source Principles help to bridge the connections that will make those contributions successful. #RedHat is a good role model of private sector contributions.

🇺🇳 Congrats to our Open Source United team for these ongoing efforts!

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-endorses-united-nations-open-source-principles

🏆 A big milestone along a decade-long road.

🌐 Governments around the world now understand the value of #OpenSource for global digital cooperation, & are rapidly working to become "good citizens" in the global community. Efforts like the #UN Open Source Principles help to bridge the connections that will make those contributions successful. #RedHat is a good role model of private sector contributions.

🇺🇳 Congrats to our Open Source United team for these ongoing efforts!

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-endorses-united-nations-open-source-principles

For more information about the UN Open Source Principles initiative, and if your organization or FOSS project might like to sign-on, head to:

https://unite.un.org/en/news/milestone-un-open-source-principles-endorsements-reach-60

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #UN