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Daily Crunch: PSG, Battery Ventures invest $100M in open source password manager Bitwarden 

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The EU — those guys who ensured we ended up with cookie banners on every damn website you’ve ever visited — are back at it with a new initiative that could have some major-league unintended consequences on open source software, Kyle reports. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead.

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Five big open source gifts from us

David Heinemeier Hansson

Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. To appreciate the banner year of programming productivity that was 2023 at our company. In the sense that we don’t make money from open source. So allow me to do that here.

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The Open-Source Philosophy

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Open-Source vs. Proprietary Software – What’s the Difference? To thoroughly grasp what open source is, one should understand what it is not. Open-source software grants its users a degree of accessibility that is not possible through its proprietary counterpart.

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How to incubate a winning innovation program

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This is why innovation programs have become so critical to sustaining the success of enterprises. In 1994 , his open-source Netscape Navigator browser transformed the difficult-to-navigate world wide web with a user-friendly point-and-click interface. Innovation programs spur change – even to an organization’s own values.

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Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

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Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. ” Meanwhile, Google.org, Google’s charitable arm, will provide $4.25 For example, U.S.

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The open source gift exchange

David Heinemeier Hansson

I love writing and sharing code as open source , but it's not an abstract act of pure altruism. The first recipients of these programming gifts are almost always myself and my company. But, ironically, this is what's made my participation in the gift exchange of open source sustainable for twenty years and counting.

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Daily Crunch: Mobile gaming review — Playing on the Logitech G Cloud with Shadow

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Annie reports that venture capital firm Flourish launched Madica, an investment program providing “funding, technology support and mentorship to underrepresented founders across the continent.”. Haje was mildly surprised and pretty excited after reading Paul ’s story about his favorite podcasting app Pocket Casts going open source.