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Microsoft: we were wrong about open source

The Verge

Microsoft has admitted it was wrong about open source, after the company battled it and Linux for years at the height of its desktop domination. Microsoft president Brad Smith now believes the company was wrong about open source. Microsoft president Brad Smith now believes the company was wrong about open source.

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DeepSeek upgrades V3 model with more parameters, open-source shift

TechNode

DeepSeek has also changed the models open-source license to an MIT license, aligning it with the DeepSeek-R1 model. In multiple benchmark tests, it outperformed other open-source models such as Qwen2.5-72B The company has not yet released a system card for the updated model. 72B and Llama-3.1-405B,

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Microsoft angers the.NET open source community with a controversial decision

The Verge

Microsoft has spent the past 10 years embracing open-source software and, at several points, even admitting it loves Linux and the open source community. The Linux Foundation even praised Microsoft for working with the open source community after the company joined the foundation nearly five years ago.

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Big News at Benetech (and for me!)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Helped environmental leaders design, manage, monitor, and evaluate global conservation projects and campaigns with the first open source conservation project management tool. Ensured that thousands of human rights activists could securely document human rights abuses.

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Penpot inks $8M as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe’s $20B acquisition move

TechCrunch

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal. On-premise deployments have also grown 400%.

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After spinning out of IBM-acquisition NS1, open source startup NetBox Labs raises $20M

TechCrunch

NetBox Labs , a new open source startup spun out of VC-backed network automation company NS1 back in January , today announced it has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding from a slew of high-profile investors.

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Qdrant, an open source vector database startup, wants to help AI developers leverage unstructured data

TechCrunch

Founded out of Berlin in 2021, Qdrant is targeting AI software developers with an open source vector search engine and database for unstructured data, which is an integral part of AI application development particularly as it relates to using real-time data that hasn’t been categorized or labeled. That Qdrant has now raised $7.5