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In »Open Source: A capitalistic value engine« Christian Paterson was quoted for opensource.net as follows: Equally, clever engineering that separates commodity – or core – core-functionality with value-added functionality enables companies producing Open Source software to embrace an open and collaborative developer community whilst not providing a completely free lunch for competitors. Of course, if competitors start to feed back into the project because that makes operational sense for them, they effectively become co-investors. That may not stop them from obtaining an advantage, but it helps make the relationship less unidirectional. In this manner, one of the best defence tactics against competitors gaining an unfair advantage is to co-opt them into the project through a genuinely open and meritocratic governance structure. ...

For anyone who likes using tools like tmux to split their terminal window, a look at the terminal emulator ‘ghostty’ might be of interest. Ghostty not only provides tabs, but also lets you split windows directly within the terminal. But that’s only one of many features. Ghostty is fully Open Source and available cross-platform. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...