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The Red Hat IPO experiment to pay maintainers: 25 years later

Twenty five years ago this week, on August 11, 1999, Red Hat went public in a stock offering that at the time was one of the largest ever, ending its ...
Chris Grams
by Chris Grams
on August 12, 2024

Take the 2024 open source maintainer survey!

By Chris Grams on July 8, 2024
It is time for the third installment Tidelift state of the open source maintainer survey!

Only maintainers can prevent software fires

By Bill Nottingham on May 23, 2024
Most software engineers who maintain an open-source-using application for their organization have a story of an epic software “fire” they’ll never ...

Recap: Life as an open source maintainer after xz

By Amy Hays on May 15, 2024
It’s been six weeks since a developer uncovered a hack of epic scope in the popular Linux compression library called xz utils (previously known as ...

Tidelift co-founder and CEO Donald Fischer on the FINOS podcast

By Caitlin Bixby on May 14, 2024
Recently, Tidelift co-founder and CEO Donald Fischer sat down with host of the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) Open Source in Finance podcast, ...

Upstream rewind: the 2023 keynote, the accidental supply chain, and what it means today

By Caitlin Bixby on April 30, 2024
As we count down to this year’s Upstream, we’ll be looking back at Upstream moments from years past. Discover how topics may have changed and how ...

New report from Atlantic Council finds paying maintainers can positively impact open source security

By Lauren Hanford on April 23, 2024
A new report just out last week from the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) at the Atlantic Council found that open source projects with funding ...

Is xz actually an open source success story?

By Jeremy Katz on April 17, 2024
It’s been just over two weeks since we all learned about a backdoor that had been slowly and carefully placed in the xz-utils library over a period ...

Paying maintainers: the HOWTO

By Luis Villa on April 15, 2024
As part of the xz discussion, some asserted that “paying maintainers doesn’t work—we tried to give people money and they wouldn’t take it.” Suffice ...

Maintainer panel: Hear from maintainers in a post-xz utils backdoor world

By Amy Hays on April 15, 2024
A few weeks ago, a very sinister, sophisticated hack was uncovered in an obscure but ubiquitous Linux library called xz utils.

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