Category: Open Source
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The Open Source License in the AI Stack in 2026
The open source license in the AI stack has become the license the procurement team has been quietly trying to parse, the license the compliance team has been quietly trying to understand, the license the next lawsuit will turn on.
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Open Source Funding: The Second Shift in 2026
The open source funding model the industry has been trying for ten years has finally produced a second shift, the model the foundation, the sponsor, the maintainer have started to use, the model the next maintainer can actually rely on.
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You Downloaded the Model. That Does Not Mean Your AI Is Private.
Running an open source model does not automatically create a private system. Data can still leave through analytics, model routers, remote embeddings, browser tools, third party MCP servers, cloud databases, crash reports and application logs.
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The Honest State of Open Source Security in 2026
Open source security in 2026 has matured, with the SCA tools, the SBOM standards, the SLSA framework, the supply chain attestation, the package signing, the major platform support. The state of the open source security in 2026 amounts to the state of a market that has the tooling, the standards, the platform support, the adoption…
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Open Source Is Holding Up the Internet, and Most Companies Don’t Even Know It
The internet runs on open source. Not metaphorically, literally. The TLS that secures your bank’s website, the kernel that runs most of the cloud, the package manager that built the app on your phone.
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Open Source Funding in 2026: The State of the Money
Open source funding in 2026 is no longer the GitHub Sponsors and Patreon era. The money is now flowing through corporate sponsorship, foundation grants, government programs, and the new crop of open source startups that have figured out how to charge for the service without charging for the code. The state of the money in…
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The Open Source Maintainer Burnout Crisis
Open source maintainer burnout is not a new problem, but in 2026 it is hitting a structural wall. The maintainers of the libraries that everything else depends on are the ones most likely to be working for free, on a project they started ten years ago, while a Fortune 500 company ships their work without…
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When Self Hosting Makes Sense, and When It Doesn’t
The self hosting decision has been the decision the developer community has been making for years, the decision the enterprise has started making again. The SaaS subscription the developer no longer trusts, the SaaS the developer can now host, the SaaS the developer is now running on the home server.
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Building Software in Your Spare Time, Sustainably
The spare time software project has been the backbone of the modern stack. The project the maintainer built on the weekend, the project the maintainer has been maintaining alone, the project the industry has been depending on for free, the project that is one burnout away from the deprecated notice.
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The Most Useful Open Source Projects You Haven’t Heard Of
A field guide to the open source projects that are doing the real work in 2026, with the projects the trade press does not cover, the projects the enterprises are quietly depending on, and the part about the maintainer burnout.