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The Document Foundation has announced LibreOffice 7.6 Community, a major new release of the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity.
The new version is available for download for Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS (Apple and Intel processors), and Linux. As the announcement states,...
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Open and accessible climate data is “critical for those that want to find it, read it and build on it in order to address climate change,” says Creative Commons. With these goals in mind, the organization has launched the Open Climate Data project to...
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Dice has released five industry-specific tech job reports aimed at helping job seekers and recruiters understand industry hiring trends.
Here’s a brief look at which skills are in demand in the five industries surveyed:
Aerospace and Defense: Highly valued skills in this space include systems engineering, C++,...
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The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has called for FOSS contributors to “exit Zoom” due to recent terms of service changes granting Zoom rights to use private user data to train machine learning models.
Zoom has since amended their terms again to say they would not use private...
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HashiCorp, the company behind Vagrant, Terraform, and other tools, has dropped the open source Mozilla Public License v2.0 in favor of the source-available Business Source License (BSL) v1.1, reports Liam Proven.
The BSL 1.1 grants “the right to copy, modify, create derivative works, redistribute, and make non-production...
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CISA, along with the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) and other U.S. agencies, have jointly issued a Request For Information (RFI) on open source software security and memory safe programming languages, reports Jonathan Greig.
Kemba Walden, acting director of ONCD, discussed...
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The Python Steering Council intends to adopt a proposal to drop the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) that “restricts a Python user program to using only a single thread,” reports Joab Jackson. “This restriction has become a serious performance impediment for running Python code across...
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CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE have announced their intent to form a collaborative trade association of open source Enterprise Linux distribution developers.
The Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA) will “encourage the development of distributions compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) by providing open and free Enterprise Linux...
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The TODO Group has released v2 of its Open Source Program Office (OSPO) definition. The new version is “more inclusive and reflects the reality of OSPOs expanding outside purely the corporate sector and into the public sector,” the announcement says.
Updates include:
Reasons why to form...
