• Surprise! Open Robotics got acquired by Google’s Intrinsic

    Last week the news broke that Intrinsic, an Alphabet (Google) company, acquired the Open Source Robotics Corporation (OSRC), makers of ROS 2. ROS 2 is an open source middleware for programming robots, and by now probably the most successful platform for this. The previous owner of OSRC was the Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF), an…

  • Class-action lawsuit filed against Microsoft for GitHub copilot

    You may have heard how GitHub Copilot helps programmers write more code faster. Copilot is an AI trained on open source code, programmed to generate code suggestions for programmers who want help. As a consequence, Copilot’s output is “somehow” (secret machine learning sauce) based on all the open source input code. However, none of the…

  • Hello again! Welcome to the Tuesday Surprise in open source

    Welcome to Bayave’s newsletter on open source. This is Dirk Riehle writing. Every Tuesday we aim to bring you a surprise, or an insight, and often both, from the world of open source. Stay tuned and subscribe to the newsletter!