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Today we're launching the Tidelift Subscription, a service that gives professional assurances to commercial users of open source while funding ...
Havoc Pennington
by Havoc Pennington
on February 28, 2018

Highlights from the FOSDEM package management dev room

By Tidelift on February 15, 2018
A couple weeks ago a number of us from Tidelift travelled to Belgium for FOSDEM, an annual free software conference that has grown to become one of ...

Dependency management and your software health

By Keenan Szulik on February 8, 2018
As I’ve written about before, the packaging of open source software is trending towards increasingly granular modules, distributed through a ...

The state of the copyleft license

By Luis Villa on February 1, 2018
In my last post, I talked about how much (or little!) we know about the licenses in the 30+ package managers and 2+ million packages in libraries.io, ...

Bit Rot: the silent killer

By Tidelift on January 30, 2018
Your code is rotting right now.

Open source: who's paying the bills?

By Tidelift on January 25, 2018
Open source software isn’t free—someone else paid for it.

The state of licensing information (or, how do we know what we know?)

By Luis Villa on January 18, 2018
As open source has grown, it has also gotten more granular. Modern apps often depend on hundreds or thousands of open source packages, not counting ...

Managing the complexities of modular software

By Keenan Szulik on January 11, 2018
Last week, I took a dive into the world of JavaScript and NPM (its largest package manager) exploring the granularity of JavaScript software and the ...

Three ways to improve the sustainability of open source projects

By Tidelift on January 9, 2018
Open source software has been astoundingly successful. Today, it is the basis upon which much of our technology is built, technology that keeps us ...

JavaScript, NPM, and the rise of granular software

By Keenan Szulik on January 4, 2018
In the last month, we’ve alluded to the relationship between package managers and small, modular packages on a couple of occasions, without ...

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