Episode 461: Not illegal, works as designed

Software Defined Talk

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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Runner-up Titles

• The Fork is a feature not a bug
• Relicensing: The path to Private Equity
• Is this Progress?
• Hot Antitrust Action
• Give it to Switzerland, they can hold our calendars
• Won’t someone think of the children?
• Cote’s airing of (Apple) grievances
• The deepest of pockets
• Fine-adjacent.
• Not complicated enough
• What’s it called when they plateau going down?
• Frankenstein Grand Theory of Open Source Business Models
• a large, wide portfolio of things that you’re vaguely aware of
• Mostly contrast

Rundown

• Zuck Just Entered the Fediverse: Here’s What That Means
• Redis
  • RIP Redis: How Garantia Data pulled off the biggest heist in open source history
  • Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing no one
  • Battle of the Redis forks?
  • Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals
  • Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork
  • Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted
  • Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community
• Is this Progress?
  • Progress Software considering an offer for MariaDB plc (NASDAQ:PRGS).
  • Progress Software Confirms Bid to Acquire MariaDB.
  • Database popularity index
• Exclusive: Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny
• Google defends auto-deletion of chats after US alleged it destroyed evidence
• 20 years of Gmail

Cote's Top 10 Tech & Productivity Wishlist for Regulators

1. Clickable Links in Instagram Captions: Make it easier to direct followers to relevant content.
2. Unified Social Media: Allow seamless posting across platforms, ideally leveraging Twitter's existing reach.
3. Native ChatGPT Downloads: Eliminate the need for external plugins to download chat sessions.
4. Universal Link Insertion Shortcut: Standardize link insertion across apps (Cmd-K for everyone!).
5. Apple Notes Customization & Integration: Enable background customization and merge with Freeform to challenge GoodNotes' dominance.
6. Universal Free/Busy Calendar: Facilitate effortless scheduling across platforms.
7. Standardized Markdown Export: Ensure all major word processors export in a common markdown format (Gruber or Common Markdown).
8. Granular Screen Time Controls: Empower users with detailed control over device usage.
9. Regulate Car Rental Insurance Fees: Put a stop to excessive and unfair insurance charges by rental companies.
10. 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 keys
• Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inquiry
• Apache Kvrocks
• Ex-technology companies
• FTX to Sell Two-Thirds of Anthropic Stake for $884 Million
• “Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11
• Adam Neumann bids over $500 million to buy back WeWork, source says
• Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM
• Marissa Mayer's startup just rolled out photo sharing and event planning apps, and the internet isn't sure what to think | TechCrunch
• Key takeaways from the Entrust incident
• Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet
• Stepping on the Gas - Observe, Inc.
• Bankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Over FTX Collapse
• Databricks CEO Says Competition Spurred High-Profile Exit at Snowflake
• Snowflake's Meltdown Is Not Drastic Enough - Still Expensive Here
• Flox 1.0: Containerless development environments using Nix
• Apple to Launch New iPad Pro and iPad Air Models in May
• A US Business Tax Law Change That Partially Caused Layoffs (Section 174)
• Results of 2024 elections of OSI board of directors
• To the pharmacy and beyond: Drug development goes to space
• AT&T says personal data from 73 million current and former account holders leaked onto dark web
• Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode
• KubeCon EU 2024 Paris: Key Takeaways
• Amazon cuts hundreds of jobs in cloud computing unit
• Intel slides as foundry business loss spotlights wide gap with rival TSMC
• Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack
• California Law Would Give Workers ‘Right to Disconnect’ From Employer’s Messages Outside Work Hours
• Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders
• The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk
• why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source project
• Ensuring a Project's Long-Term Survival with William Morgan
• Tennr puts fax machines back in vogue for healthcare organizations using AI, as it secures $18m from a16z
• Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores
• A few thoughts on the Apple DOJ antitrust case, from someone who isn’t riding his first rodeo

Nonsense

• Some New England universities and colleges break $90,000 barrier for total cost in upcoming school year
• As 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.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: 3 Body Problem
• Matt: Uni Jetstream Pen, 0.5 mm
• Coté: 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-QUI

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