Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organisations is out! Highly recommended read, and open access. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations

How the innate physical properties of different technologies influence the strategy and structure of the organizations implementing the technologies, the s

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I've been thinking about and working to understand Free Software, Open Source, and business for a very long time. Thanks to @kelseyhightower.com, I tried to distill all of that into a single talk: youtu.be/rmhYHzJpkuo - I'm very proud of it, and I hope it helps you. :)

Reimagining OSS Licensing and Commercialization with Fair Source - Adam Jacob, System Initiative

YouTube video by CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

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Yes! The credible exit is SO important -- and is exactly what is annhilated by these license changes. I would love to magically appear in board meetings of OSS companies and read this post aloud to them...

Dan Siemon@coverfire.com · 2y ago

We chose CockroachDB because it was open source and happily paid for the cloud version. The important part of open source for us is the 'credible exit' where we can't be shaken down at some point in the future. We had just started exploring ScyllaDB...

Lots of music disappears when labels fold or the rights are no longer clear. With the move to streaming services it is easy to erase these, but the memory and love for the track is not

Save Music, Save the Archive!

Save Music, Save the Archive! 850+ musicians are speaking out to demand that major labels drop a lawsuit aimed to destroy the Internet Archive—and for their industry to take concrete actions to realig...

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When prescription drug costs are subjectively set by conflicted intermediates who profit off higher prices and misaligned incentives, the sticker shock isn’t really a shock at all. www.wsj.com/health/healt... @wsj.com

Same Drug, 2,200 Different Prices

Middlemen negotiate widely different prices for prescriptions, depending on your Medicare insurance plan.

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Handling Cookies is a Minefield: Inconsistencies in the HTTP cookie specification and its implementations have caused a situation where countless websites (including Facebook, Netflix, Okta, WhatsApp, Apple, etc.) are one small mistake away from locking their users out. grayduck.mn/2024/11/21/h...

Experts say this nightmare of an experience highlights the need for regulatory reform in medical device approvals.

Horrifying medical device malfunction: Abdominal implant erupts from leg

Suspicious deaths, perforated sheep veins went unreported before device hit market.

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Strava is now also locking up their users data. It is a trend. They grow because people share their data and then the company locks up access to 3rd parties that a user may want to use on their data. #strava #openapi #datapolicy

Strava's Big Changes Aim To Kill Off Apps

 Yesterday Strava sent out an e-mail to users, outlining a change that’s occurring almost immediately, regarding 3rd party apps …

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💡 Tip: You can set your website as your username on Bluesky! This is one form of self-verification, and we especially encourage official organizations and brands to do this! Examples include @npr.org @react.dev @duolingobrasil.com.br. Here's our guide for how to do this:

👋 Hello Blue Sky 🦋 world! So far the ability to use your own domain is a nice touch