Scribd Files Complaint Against DRM Circumvention Tool
Founded in 2007, Scribd billed itself as the “world’s first open publishing platform.” In 2013, the platform debuted “the first reading subscription service”, offering readers access to all books for a single flat fee. The following year, Scribd added audiobooks to its service, later adding access to sheet music and magazines. By 2017, the site had established itself as a base for news articles,...
A quickstart guide to Ansible
Many great tools have come and gone over the years. But none of them have made an impact as large as the one that Ansible has made in the IT automation space. From servers to networks to public cloud providers to serverless to Kubernetes… Ansible has a lot of use cases. “The Ansible Automation for Sysadmins Guide” was created to help celebrate Ansible’s 7th birthday this year! read...
Teaching scientists how to share code
Would it surprise you to learn that most of the world’s scholarly research is not owned by the people who funded it or who created it? Rather it’s owned by private corporations and locked up in proprietary systems, leading to problems around sharing, reuse, and reproducibility. read...
7 trailblazers in tech comment on Black History Month
A huge part of what makes working in open source special is working with a diverse set of people from different backgrounds. During Black History Month (BHM), we honor those who’ve come before us, but I also want to spotlight some of today’s incredible, diverse open source inventors and leaders whose contributions have influenced the technology we depend on today. read...
