Beginning with the news round, featuring the UK government's secret order for a backdoor to Apple's iCloud, AI comes up again with a new contender called DeepSeek making waves and with another (Musk's Grok) enraging users. Plus, we do share some guidance of what not to do with AI tools.
The main topic looks at the state of the open source software world. Is it in trouble? Well, let's have a look at WordPress and Firefox as some examples.
During the discussion we do mention Flatpak, Snap and AppImage with relation to software deployment and package management on Linux. We don't make any recommendations here, but as a start to build familiarity have a look at at Flatpak vs. Snap: 10 Differences You Should Know.
News References
(The Register) Apple drags UK government to court over 'backdoor' order
(Privacy International) Our challenge against UK's secret TCN powers
(TechRadar) France rejects controversial encryption backdoor provision
(BBC News) Why Elon Musk's Grok is kicking up a storm in India
(BBC News) DeepSeek: The Chinese AI app that has the world talking
(9to5Mac) Trump likens UK encryption law to ‘something you hear about with China’
(TechRadar) I thought the tri-folding Huawei Mate XT was a gimmick, but then I held it
Open Source References
(The Verge) The messy WordPress drama, explained
(Software Freedom Conservancy) SFC Files Amicus Brief in Support of Users' Rights under AGPLv3§7
(The Register) Free Software Foundation rides to defend AGPLv3 against Neo4j license add-ons
(The Register) Open source maintainers are really feeling the squeeze
(The Register) After clash over Rust in Linux, now Asahi lead quits distro, slams Linus' kernel leadership
(GamingOnLinux) Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packaging
Clipy - open source clipboard manager for macOS
FOSS and FLOSS by Richard Stallman
OpenOffice and LibreOffice (Comparison)
AlternativeTo - find alternative software recommendation