Episode 461: Not illegal, works as designed

This week, we discuss Redis Relicensing, Progress acquiring MariaDB and Microsoft unbundling Teams. Plus, Coté shares his Top 10 Tech and Productivity Wish List for regulators.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvLlXxJWlOE) 461 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvLlXxJWlOE)
Runner-up Titles
The Fork is a feature not a bug
Relicensing: The path to Private Equity
Is this Progress?
Hot Antitrust Action
Give it to Switzerland, they can hold our calendars
Won’t someone think of the children?
Cote’s airing of (Apple) grievances
The deepest of pockets
Fine-adjacent.
Not complicated enough
What’s it called when they plateau going down?
Frankenstein Grand Theory of Open Source Business Models
a large, wide portfolio of things that you’re vaguely aware of
Mostly contrast
Rundown
Zuck Just Entered the Fediverse: Here’s What That Means (https://gizmodo.com/zuck-entered-fediverse-threads-heres-what-that-means-1851356849)
Redis
RIP Redis: How Garantia Data pulled off the biggest heist in open source history (https://www.gomomento.com/blog/rip-redis-how-garantia-data-pulled-off-the-biggest-heist-in-open-source-history)
Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing no one (https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/22/redis_changes_license/)
Battle of the Redis forks? (https://www.thestack.technology/battle-of-the-redis-forks-begins/)
Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714688/the-bizarre-defense-of-trillion-dollar-cabals.html)
Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork (https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/31/why-aws-google-and-oracle-are-backing-the-valkey-redis-fork/)
Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted (https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/open-source-software-the-nine-trillion-resource-companies-take-for-granted)
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community)
Is this Progress?
Progress Software considering an offer for MariaDB plc (NASDAQ:PRGS) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/4083996-progress-software-considering-offer-for-mariadb-plc).
Progress Software Confirms Bid to Acquire MariaDB (https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/progress-software-revenue-beats-estimates-outlook-short-of-forecasts-769e9c7e).
Database popularity index (https://db-engines.com/en/ranking)
Exclusive: Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny (https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-separate-teams-office-globally-amid-antitrust-scrutiny-2024-04-01/)
Google defends auto-deletion of chats after US alleged it destroyed evidence (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/google-defends-auto-deletion-of-chats-after-us-alleged-it-destroyed-evidence/)
20 years of Gmail (https://www.theverge.com/24113616/gmail-email-20-years-old-internet)
Cote's Top 10 Tech & Productivity Wishlist for Regulators
Clickable Links in Instagram Captions: Make it easier to direct followers to relevant content.
Unified Social Media: Allow seamless posting across platforms, ideally leveraging Twitter's existing reach.
Native ChatGPT Downloads: Eliminate the need for external plugins to download chat sessions.
Universal Link Insertion Shortcut: Standardize link insertion across apps (Cmd-K for everyone!).
Apple Notes Customization & Integration: Enable background customization and merge with Freeform to challenge GoodNotes' dominance.
Universal Free/Busy Calendar: Facilitate effortless scheduling across platforms.
Standardized Markdown Export: Ensure all major word processors export in a common markdown format (Gruber or Common Markdown).
Granular Screen Time Controls: Empower users with detailed control over device usage.
Regulate Car Rental Insurance Fees: Put a stop to excessive and unfair insurance charges by rental companies.
Bring Back Google Reader! (Okay, this one's a personal plea, but wouldn't it be great?)
Relevant to your Interests
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys (https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/)
Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inquiry (https://www.wired.com/story/reddits-sale-user-data-ai-training-draws-ftc-investigation/)
Apache Kvrocks (https://kvrocks.apache.org/)
Ex-technology companies (https://lethain.com/ex-technology-companies/)
FTX to Sell Two-Thirds of Anthropic Stake for $884 Million (https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftx-to-sell-two-thirds-of-anthropic-stake-for-884-million-2cb3ccd2)
“Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11 (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/windows-current-disk-formatting-ui-is-a-30-year-old-placeholder-from-windows-nt/)
Adam Neumann bids over $500 million to buy back WeWork, source says (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-adam-neumann-submits-over-221446962.html)
Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM (https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-dbrx-new-state-art-open-llm)
Marissa Mayer's startup just rolled out photo sharing and event planning apps, and the internet isn't sure what to think | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/marissa-mayers-startup-just-rolled-out-apps-for-group-photo-sharing-and-event-planning-and-the-internet-isnt-sure-what-to-think/)
Key takeaways from the Entrust incident (https://www.digicert.com/blog/key-takeaways-from-the-entrust-incident)
Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/27/amazon-spends-2point7b-on-startup-anthropic-in-largest-venture-investment.html)
Stepping on the Gas - Observe, Inc. (https://www.observeinc.com/blog/stepping-on-the-gas/)
Bankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Over FTX Collapse (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-28/bankman-fried-is-sentenced-to-25-years-in-prison?srnd=homepage-americas)
Databricks CEO Says Competition Spurred High-Profile Exit at Snowflake (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/databricks-ceo-says-competition-spurred-165030607.html)
Snowflake's Meltdown Is Not Drastic Enough - Still Expensive Here (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4680854-snowflake-meltdown-not-drastic-enough-still-expensive-here)
Flox 1.0: Containerless development environments using Nix (https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/23/flox_1_nix/)
Apple to Launch New iPad Pro and iPad Air Models in May (https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/28/new-ipad-models-may-launch/)
A US Business Tax Law Change That Partially Caused Layoffs (Section 174) (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/us-business-tax-law-change-partially-caused-layoffs-174-levitt-mba-mrbbf/?trackingId=BLvRFIlxS%2F66kmfrkzeptQ%3D%3D)
Results of 2024 elections of OSI board of directors (https://opensource.org/blog/results-of-2024-elections-of-osi-board-of-directors)
To the pharmacy and beyond: Drug development goes to space (https://thehustle.co/news/to-the-pharmacy-and-beyond-drug-development-goes-to-space)
AT&T says personal data from 73 million current and former account holders leaked onto dark web (https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/30/tech/att-data-leak/index.html)
Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode (https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/1/24117929/google-incognito-browsing-data-delete-class-action-settlement)
KubeCon EU 2024 Paris: Key Takeaways (https://danielbryantuk.medium.com/kubecon-eu-2024-paris-key-takeaways-ad4c1bb7fbfe)
Amazon cuts hundreds of jobs in cloud computing unit (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/03/amazon-layoffs-hundreds-of-jobs-cut-in-cloud-computing-unit.html)
Intel slides as foundry business loss spotlights wide gap with rival TSMC (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-slides-foundry-business-loss-120623062.html)
Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack (https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-cybersecurity-hack-raimondo-breach-b0901a93cca2ffaf05edacbfb9ecf3da)
California Law Would Give Workers ‘Right to Disconnect’ From Employer’s Messages Outside Work Hours (https://gizmodo.com/california-right-to-disconnect-stop-employer-messages-1851380159)
Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders (https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24118436/yahoo-news-artifact-acquisition)
The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk (https://spectrum.ieee.org/3m-floppy)
why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source project (https://macwright.com/2024/03/25/about-placemark-io)
Ensuring a Project's Long-Term Survival with William Morgan (https://www.emilyomier.com/podcast/ensuring-a-projects-long-term-survival-with-william-morgan)
Tennr puts fax machines back in vogue for healthcare organizations using AI, as it secures $18m from a16z (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tennr-puts-fax-machines-back-130000653.html)
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116)
A few thoughts on the Apple DOJ antitrust case, from someone who isn’t riding his first rodeo (https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/03/22/a-few-thoughts-on-the-apple-doj-antitrust-case-from-someone-who-isnt-riding-his-first-rodeo/)
Nonsense
Some New England universities and colleges break $90,000 barrier for total cost in upcoming school year (https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/business/college-tuition-new-england-ninety-thousand/index.html)
As markets soar, should investors look beyond America? (https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/03/24/as-markets-soar-should-investors-look-beyond-america)
Conferences
Tanzu Defined, online, April 3rd, 2024 (https://www.linkedin.com/events/7175971321300865024/about/) - but check the replay in LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/events/7175971321300865024/about/) or YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDvWDyd98hA).
Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking.
NDC Oslo (https://substack.com/redirect/8de3819c-db2b-47c8-bd7a-f0a40103de9e?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), Coté speaking (https://substack.com/redirect/41e821af-36ba-4dbb-993c-20755d5f040a?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-amsterdam/welcome/), June 19 -to21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/).
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: 3 Body Problem (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.netflix.com/title/81024821&ved=2ahUKEwj7y8yl0Y-FAxUkkO4BHSPsAokQFnoECDwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw34C7IJEMHi6y9j30HRthhu)
Matt: Uni Jetstream Pen, 0.5 mm (https://amzn.to/4apzuYT)
Coté: First chapter of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icewind_Dale:_Rime_of_the_Frostmaiden) - so this is what a “sandbox” adventure is. Related, my overview of making huge D&D maps with Midjourney (https://cote.io/2024/04/03/creating-huge-dd.html). Also, though I might have recommended it before, this is both good in its own and fascinating from an Internet-artist perspective. And I don’t even like house (can’t they take that damn beat out so we can hear the actual mish-mash of music without that metal scrapping on Brillo pads all the time?) https://youtu.be/EgepxKANDGc?si=hO6_092WONyp-QUI
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-wooden-fence-with-a-painted-sign-on-it-4XbEgggW93o)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/woman-in-gold-dress-holding-sword-figurine-L4YGuSg0fxs)

This week, we discuss Redis Relicensing, Progress acquiring MariaDB and Microsoft unbundling Teams. Plus, Coté shares his Top 10 Tech and Productivity Wish List for regulators.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 461

Runner-up Titles

The Fork is a feature not a bug
Relicensing: The path to Private Equity
Is this Progress?
Hot Antitrust Action
Give it to Switzerland, they can hold our calendars
Won’t someone think of the children?
Cote’s airing of (Apple) grievances
The deepest of pockets
Fine-adjacent.
Not complicated enough
What’s it called when they plateau going down?
Frankenstein Grand Theory of Open Source Business Models
a large, wide portfolio of things that you’re vaguely aware of
Mostly contrast

Rundown

Zuck Just Entered the Fediverse: Here’s What That Means
Redis

RIP Redis: How Garantia Data pulled off the biggest heist in open source history
Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing no one
Battle of the Redis forks?
Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals
Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork
Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community

Is this Progress?

Progress Software considering an offer for MariaDB plc (NASDAQ:PRGS).
Progress Software Confirms Bid to Acquire MariaDB.
Database popularity index

Exclusive: Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny
Google defends auto-deletion of chats after US alleged it destroyed evidence
20 years of Gmail

Cote's Top 10 Tech & Productivity Wishlist for Regulators

Clickable Links in Instagram Captions: Make it easier to direct followers to relevant content.
Unified Social Media: Allow seamless posting across platforms, ideally leveraging Twitter's existing reach.
Native ChatGPT Downloads: Eliminate the need for external plugins to download chat sessions.
Universal Link Insertion Shortcut: Standardize link insertion across apps (Cmd-K for everyone!).
Apple Notes Customization & Integration: Enable background customization and merge with Freeform to challenge GoodNotes' dominance.
Universal Free/Busy Calendar: Facilitate effortless scheduling across platforms.
Standardized Markdown Export: Ensure all major word processors export in a common markdown format (Gruber or Common Markdown).
Granular Screen Time Controls: Empower users with detailed control over device usage.
Regulate Car Rental Insurance Fees: Put a stop to excessive and unfair insurance charges by rental companies.
Bring Back Google Reader! (Okay, this one's a personal plea, but wouldn't it be great?)

Relevant to your Interests

Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inquiry
Apache Kvrocks
Ex-technology companies
FTX to Sell Two-Thirds of Anthropic Stake for $884 Million
“Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11
Adam Neumann bids over $500 million to buy back WeWork, source says
Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM
Marissa Mayer's startup just rolled out photo sharing and event planning apps, and the internet isn't sure what to think | TechCrunch
Key takeaways from the Entrust incident
Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet
Stepping on the Gas - Observe, Inc.
Bankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Over FTX Collapse
Databricks CEO Says Competition Spurred High-Profile Exit at Snowflake
Snowflake's Meltdown Is Not Drastic Enough - Still Expensive Here
Flox 1.0: Containerless development environments using Nix
Apple to Launch New iPad Pro and iPad Air Models in May
A US Business Tax Law Change That Partially Caused Layoffs (Section 174)
Results of 2024 elections of OSI board of directors
To the pharmacy and beyond: Drug development goes to space
AT&T says personal data from 73 million current and former account holders leaked onto dark web
Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode
KubeCon EU 2024 Paris: Key Takeaways
Amazon cuts hundreds of jobs in cloud computing unit
Intel slides as foundry business loss spotlights wide gap with rival TSMC
Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack
California Law Would Give Workers ‘Right to Disconnect’ From Employer’s Messages Outside Work Hours
Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders
The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk
why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source project
Ensuring a Project's Long-Term Survival with William Morgan
Tennr puts fax machines back in vogue for healthcare organizations using AI, as it secures $18m from a16z
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores
A few thoughts on the Apple DOJ antitrust case, from someone who isn’t riding his first rodeo

Nonsense

Some New England universities and colleges break $90,000 barrier for total cost in upcoming school year
As markets soar, should investors look beyond America?

Conferences

Tanzu Defined, online, April 3rd, 2024 - but check the replay in LinkedIn or YouTube.
Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking.
NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19 -to21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.

SDT news & hype

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Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

Recommendations

Brandon: 3 Body Problem
Matt: Uni Jetstream Pen, 0.5 mm
Coté: First chapter of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden - so this is what a “sandbox” adventure is. Related, my overview of making huge D&D maps with Midjourney. Also, though I might have recommended it before, this is both good in its own and fascinating from an Internet-artist perspective. And I don’t even like house (can’t they take that damn beat out so we can hear the actual mish-mash of music without that metal scrapping on Brillo pads all the time?) https://youtu.be/EgepxKANDGc?si=hO6_092WONyp-QUI

Photo Credits

Header
Artwork