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Redmonk: No clear link between moving from open source to a proprietary license, and increasing company value

A report from developer-focused analyst Redmonk finds “there does not seem to be a clear link between moving […]

Visual Studio Code is migrating its own source code to ECMAScript modules

Microsoft is releasing version 1.93 of Visual Studio Code (VS Code), the most widely used programmer’s editor and […]

PyPi repository vulnerable to deleted package hijack, say researchers

Security researchers at JFrog report that the PyPi package repository is vulnerable to malware uploaded with the same […]

Microsoft makes breaking change in .NET 9 for security, leaves .NET Framework insecure

Microsoft is removing the BinaryFormatter class from .NET 9 – the forthcoming version to be released later this […]

Elasticsearch will be open source again as CTO declares changed landscape

Shay Banon, founder and CTO of Elastic, says the AGPL (GNU Affero General Public License) will be added […]

Google researchers suggest “fixing” SQL with pipe syntax, SQLite creator unconvinced

Google says it can improve SQL by introducing a pipe operator – which is already in use internally […]

Microsoft quietly donates Mono Project to WineHQ. But why?

Microsoft principal software engineer Jeff Schwartz, who is engineering manager of the .NET runtime team, updated the readme […]

JetBrains Workspaces aims for benefits of monorepos without the downside – but only in IntelliJ IDEA

JetBrains has introduced Workspaces for its IntelliJ IDEA Java and Kotlin IDE, enabling multiple projects in separate repositories […]

Survey finds game engines used equally by non-game projects, rise of interest in open source Godot

A survey conducted by Perforce in conjunction with JetBrains has found that only 50 percent of game engine […]

Sourcegraph makes core repository private, co-founder complains open source means “extra work and risk”

Sourcegraph has removed the formerly open source core repository for its popular code search product from public view […]