https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/series/open-source-chronicles/Recent content in Open Source Chronicles on Osmond van HemertHugo -- gohugo.ioen© Osmond van Hemert. All rights reserved.Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/260226-opentofu-infrastructure-as-code/Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/260226-opentofu-infrastructure-as-code/OpenTofu has matured significantly since its fork from Terraform. Here’s where things stand and what it means for teams managing cloud infrastructure.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/250529-opentofu-terraform-fork-maturing/Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/250529-opentofu-terraform-fork-maturing/A year and a half after forking from Terraform, OpenTofu is proving that community-driven infrastructure tooling can thrive — but challenges remain.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/241017-wordpress-wp-engine-open-source-rift/Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/241017-wordpress-wp-engine-open-source-rift/The WordPress/WP Engine feud has escalated into a full-blown crisis, raising fundamental questions about open source governance and commercial ecosystems.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/241003-wordpress-wp-engine-open-source-governance/Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/241003-wordpress-wp-engine-open-source-governance/The escalating conflict between Automattic and WP Engine raises fundamental questions about open source trademarks, governance, and what happens when a project’s founder picks a fight.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240404-redis-relicensing-valkey-fork/Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240404-redis-relicensing-valkey-fork/Redis Labs switches from BSD to a dual SSPL/RSALv2 license, and the Linux Foundation responds by backing the Valkey fork.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240111-opentofu-1-6-terraform-fork-grows-up/Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240111-opentofu-1-6-terraform-fork-grows-up/OpenTofu hits its first GA release, proving that the open-source fork of Terraform is more than a protest — it’s a viable alternative.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240104-opentofu-open-source-infrastructure/Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240104-opentofu-open-source-infrastructure/As OpenTofu approaches its first stable release, the HashiCorp license change continues to reshape how we think about open source infrastructure tooling.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/231026-opentofu-terraform-fork/Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/231026-opentofu-terraform-fork/OpenTofu, the community fork of Terraform born from HashiCorp’s license change, is rapidly building momentum under the Linux Foundation.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/230831-opentofu-terraform-fork-open-source/Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/230831-opentofu-terraform-fork-open-source/HashiCorp’s switch to the Business Source License has triggered a community fork of Terraform called OpenTofu, and the implications for infrastructure-as-code are enormous.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/230810-hashicorp-terraform-bsl-license/Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/230810-hashicorp-terraform-bsl-license/HashiCorp’s decision to relicense Terraform and other products under the Business Source License has sent shockwaves through the infrastructure community.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/230622-red-hat-rhel-source-code-controversy/Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/230622-red-hat-rhel-source-code-controversy/Red Hat’s decision to restrict public access to RHEL source code sends shockwaves through the enterprise Linux ecosystem and raises fundamental questions about open source sustainability.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/221117-mastodon-fediverse-stress-test/Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/221117-mastodon-fediverse-stress-test/As millions flee Twitter for Mastodon, the decentralized social protocol ActivityPub faces its biggest real-world scalability challenge yet.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/221027-mastodon-decentralized-social-scaling/Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/221027-mastodon-decentralized-social-scaling/As users flood to Mastodon following the Twitter acquisition, the open-source platform faces its biggest infrastructure test yet.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/221020-ubuntu-2210-kinetic-kudu/Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/221020-ubuntu-2210-kinetic-kudu/Ubuntu 22.10 ships with updated toolchains and GNOME 43, but the real story is what it previews for the next LTS cycle.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220929-linux-kernel-6-release/Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220929-linux-kernel-6-release/Linux 6.0 arrives with Rust language support, performance improvements, and new hardware enablement — but the real story is what the version bump signals about the kernel’s evolution.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220217-alpha-omega-open-source-security/Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220217-alpha-omega-open-source-security/The Linux Foundation’s new Alpha-Omega Project, backed by Google and Microsoft, aims to systematically improve the security of critical open source software.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220113-white-house-open-source-security-summit/Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220113-white-house-open-source-security-summit/The White House convened tech leaders to address open source security after Log4Shell. Here’s what was discussed and what it means for developers.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220106-faker-colors-open-source-sabotage/Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220106-faker-colors-open-source-sabotage/A single developer deliberately corrupted two widely-used npm packages, exposing the fragility of the open source supply chain.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/211014-gitlab-ipo-open-source-business/Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/211014-gitlab-ipo-open-source-business/GitLab’s successful IPO this week validates the open-core model and raises important questions about the future of open-source developer tooling.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210812-github-copilot-open-source-debate/Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210812-github-copilot-open-source-debate/GitHub Copilot’s AI-powered code suggestions have sparked a fierce debate about open source licensing, training data consent, and the future of code ownership.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210325-aws-opensearch-elasticsearch-fork/Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210325-aws-opensearch-elasticsearch-fork/Amazon announces OpenSearch, a fork of Elasticsearch, escalating the most consequential open source licensing battle in years.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210114-elasticsearch-license-change/Thu, 14 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210114-elasticsearch-license-change/Elastic’s decision to move Elasticsearch and Kibana from Apache 2.0 to dual SSPL/Elastic License reignites the debate about open source sustainability in the cloud era.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/201224-centos-stream-shift/Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/201224-centos-stream-shift/Red Hat’s decision to shift CentOS from a stable downstream rebuild to a rolling upstream preview has sent shockwaves through the server community.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200806-linux-kernel-5-8-release/Thu, 06 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200806-linux-kernel-5-8-release/Linux 5.8 lands with a massive changeset. Linus Torvalds himself says it’s one of the biggest releases of all time — here’s what developers should care about.https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200604-linux-kernel-57-release/Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200604-linux-kernel-57-release/Linux 5.7 ships with split-lock detection, the new ExFAT driver, userfaultfd improvements, and a thermal management overhaul — a release that matters more than its headlines suggest.