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How to turn an open source project into a profitable business

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Victoria Melnikova Contributor Share on Twitter Alongside fellow Evil Martians , Victoria Melnikova builds devtools and commercial open source products and writes about her journey in tech. But is it possible for a smaller open source project to find its way into this land of commercial opportunity?

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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

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Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company’s Instagram stories … Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. And since they’re open source, some of these companies will let you join in on the fun of collaboration too.

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Rezilion Updates Open Source MI-X Tool to Better Secure App Development

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Rezilion has updated its open source MI-X vulnerability discovery tool to include mitigation and remediation recommendations. In addition, the tool can now produce machine-readable output in either a JSON or CSV format. MI-X makes it possible to use a command line […].

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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. Image Credits: Hill Street Studios (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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Daily Crunch: After developers complain, Microsoft clarifies new policy on open source monetization

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Words mean everything : Microsoft came under fire recently by developers due to the way it worded a new policy banning profiting off of open source software, and while the company clawed back that policy, Paul provides a look at what all this will mean. Image Credits: Eoneren (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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Puppet Deepens Windows Integration

DevOps.com

Puppet today announced it has extended support for Windows environments across its portfolio of IT automation tools by adding an instance of the open source Chocolately package manager and a Group Policy Migration capability that enables multiple Windows configurations to be tracked simultaneously.

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VSCode + WSL makes Windows awesome for web development

David Heinemeier Hansson

Windows actually got good for web developers. Between VSCode , WSL , and Intel’s latest desktop chips, I’ve been living with a PC for over a week that runs my programming tests faster than an M3 Max, ships with an excellent window manager out-the-box, and generally feels like a completely viable alternative to macOS for working with the web.