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Chinstrap Community promotes and supports open source software entrepreneurship. Chinstrap provides educational resources and guidance on commercial open source software (COSS) for founders, investors, and university technology licensing professionals.
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#COSS #Framework #Hyprland #Omarchy #OpenSource #oss
Navigating the Minefield: How Clear Governance Can Prevent Open Source Controversies - Chinstrap Community
Introduction The world of open source is full of passion and strong convictions. This can lead to disputes that arise from ideological differences around open source. But sometimes, strong convictions...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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#baitandswitch #COSS #OpenSource #oss #rugpull #SourceAvailable
Yet Another License Change - Chinstrap Community
License changes are an ongoing controversy in the COSS world. They go by many names, depending on your viewpoint: rug-pulls, bait and switch, or new-and-improved licenses. To understand this phenomeno...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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#AI #COSS #M&A #OpenSource #oss
Qualcomm is Buying Arduino
Qualcomm has announced that it has agreed to buy Arduino. “Arduino will retain its independent brand, tools, and mission, while continuing to support a wide range of microcontrollers and micr…
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October 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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#COSS #opencore #OpenSource #oss
MinIO Community Edition Feature Set is Shrinking
Interesting articles here and here from this June about the negative reaction from the community about removing functions from the open core company’s open source version. “The adjustme…
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October 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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#COSS #India #OpenSource #oss
IndiaFOSS Showcases Local COSS
Last week, FOSSUnited sponsored the 5th edition of the IndiaFOSS conference in Bangaluru. COSS companies showcased there included: Ente, a Google Photos alternative ERPNext by Frappe, a web applica…
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September 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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#COSS #licensechanges #OpenSource #oss #SourceAvailable #Startups
Commercial Open Source is not Only About License Changes
An article appeared recently in The New Stack about the progress of companies built on open source. It focuses on the changes in licensing strategy of Cebo, a synthetic data company whose technolog…
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September 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Tongyi Open Source Agent
Alibaba announced an open source agent that is being hailed as the “Deepseek of agents” due to its open source license, Apache 2.0. Tongyi means to agree or unite. One more step forward…
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September 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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#OpenSource #Linux #FOSS #COSS #SuccessionPlanning #BusinessContinuity #TechLeadership #CommunityDriven #SustainableGrowth #LeadershipMatters
Succession Planning and Open Source
An interesting article appeared recently about succession plans for the Linux kernel project. We’ve all been very fortunate, until now, that Linus Torvalds has remained both able and willing …
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August 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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#COSS #StartupLife #BusinessGrowth #EntrepreneurMindset #BusinessQuiz #ChinstrapCommunity #KeepLearning #ScaleUp #WorkshopsThatWork #BuildInPublic
Take our COSS Entrepreneurship Quiz
How much do you know about creating a successful COSS business? Test your knowledge with our quiz here. If you attend one of our workshops, you will easily score 100%! Learn more at www.chinstrap.c…
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August 16, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Thank you to all who joined Heather @heathermeeker.bsky.social and Sabir @devlegal.bsky.social
for our Fireside Chat with Nariman Jelveh
of Puter @heyputer.bsky.social!

Watch the video here: youtu.be/jAjiG6UfR2g

Stay tuned for more; we've got a big one in the works 😉

#OSS #OpenSource #COSS
Chinstrap Community Fireside Chat - Nariman Jelveh of Puter
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August 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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#OSS #COSS #OpenSource #Startups #Entrepreneurship
July 30, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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#AIActionPlan #COSS #DeepSeek #Llama #OpenSourceAI #OpenAI #oss #Qwen #Trump #WhiteHouse
White House Champions Open Source AI to Counter China
(This article should be read in light of the caveat that, as yet, no one knows what “open source AI” really means) The White House has released its “America’s AI Action Plan…
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July 26, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Join Heather @heathermeeker.bsky.social and Sabir @devlegal.bsky.social as they host Nariman Jelveh, founder and CEO of Puter @heyputer.bsky.social for a virtual fireside chat!

Hear Nariman share insights from his ongoing journey as as a COSS founder.

Register here: dub.sh/Li6hXuL
July 25, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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#A2A #AI #CNCF #COSS #Google #Kubernetes #LinuxFoundatin #ML #OpenSource #oss
Google’s strategic OSS gift: A2A joins the Linux Foundation
In a significant move for the future of AI-related innovation, Google has donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation. This decision, announced in June 2025, signals a pivotal mo…
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July 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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#AssetManagement #Audits #CommercialOpenSource #COSS #Licensing #OpenSource #oss
License management costs are driving enterprises towards open source
A recent survey by Azul Systems and the ITAM Forum reveals that many companies are struggling with the complexities of software license compliance, and it’s costing them dearly. The survey of…
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July 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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#COSS #OSS #OpenSource #Politics #IRS #Trump #Government #Copyright #PublicDomain
The Gist Episode 16 - The IRS open sourced its Direct File software. Why is that important?
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June 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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#Bitcoin #COSS #Crypto #OpenSource #Tether
Tether Announces Plan to Open Source Bitcoin Mining Software
Tether announced yesterday that it will open source its Bitcoin Mining OS. The release is planned for later this year. This could enable many companies to create their own mining operations.
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June 16, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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#COSS #OSS #OpenSource #Forking #Governance #Terraform #OpenTofu #Redis #valkey
The Gist Episode 15 - How does forking act as a check on the power of OSS project maintainers?
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June 2, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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#Agentic #AI #API #APIManagement #COSS #Events #Gravitee #OpenSource #oss
Gravitee Raises $60 Million Series C Round
Gravitee, which provides an open source platform for agentic API and event management, announced that it raised a $60 million series C round led by Sixth Street Growth. Gravitee’s paid offeri…
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May 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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#COSS #DataHub #Funding #Metadata #OpenSource #oss #Startups
DataHub Raises $35 Million Series B Round
DataHub, which provides an open source platform for managing metadata that gives context to AI training data, announced that it raised $35 million in a series B round led by Bessemer Venture Partne…
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May 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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#CNCF #COSS #LinuxFoundation #NATS #oss #OSSFoundations #Synadia #Trademarks
OSS Foundations and their COSS Contributors: A Delicate Balance
Lessons from the NATS Controversy The recent dispute between the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Synadia over the NATS messaging system highlights the complex relationship between open…
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May 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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#COSS #finance #OpenSource
New Report on the COSS Financial Case
Serena Capital released a report on “The Data-Backed Financial Case from 25 Years of Commercial Open Source.” It mentions that “High-profile deals — Red Hat’s $34B sale to IBM, Ha…
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May 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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#COSS #OSS #Cloud #SaaS #OnPrem #AI #DataPrivacy #DataSecurity
The Gist Episode 14 - Is "on prem" making a comeback? What does that mean for COSS?
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May 21, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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#Azure #Cloud #Copyleft #COSS #GPL #Linux #Microsoft #OpenSource #oss
This ain’t your daddy’s Microsoft
24 years ago, then-CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer famously declared, “Linux is a cancer.” Ballmer’s bellicose rhetoric against Linux was part of a broader war by Microsoft on the …
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May 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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#OSS #COSS #Rsync #OpenRsync #OpenSource #gpl #apple #gpl3
The Gist Episode 13 - Rsync license change causes replacement by Apple
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May 12, 2025 at 6:41 AM