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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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Mozilla
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The Register UK ☛ Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful [Ed: Well, in the past, Waterfox sold out users by signing up with a surveillance company, System1]
Waterfox, a popular fork of Firefox, is saying nay to AI. Considering how unpopular Mozilla's plan to botify its browser has become, this could win the alternative some converts.
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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
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Kiwi TCMS: Kiwi TCMS is going to FOSDEM 2026
Hello testers, we are happy to announce that Kiwi TCMS is going to FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels. This is where you can find us:
- Saturday Jan 31st: Kiwi TCMS stand - most likely in the K building however specific information will be made available closer to the event! Please follow https://fosdem.org/2026/ for more news!
- Sunday Feb 1st: Testing and Continuous Delivery devroom - we are proud to be co-hosting this devroom again!
We would like to meet with all of you and talk about open source, software testing and test management!
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Licensing / Legal
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Software Freedom Conservancy ☛ People are talking about the Vizio suit!
After the positive tentative ruling in our case against Vizio, we gathered in Orange County with our lawyers for what is likely the last hearing of 2025. Going into the hearing, the judge was leaning toward concluding that a request for source code — pursuant to an offer under the GPLv2 or LGPLv2.1 — constitutes a contract obligating the vendor to provide that code to the purchaser.
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Programming/Development
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Developer OS Preference Statistics [Ed: This seems like an obvious slopfarm]
Windows claimed 59.2% of developer personal use in 2024, but Android surged 11 percentage points to reach 29% adoption in 2025, overtaking Ubuntu for the first time. The Stack Overflow Developer Survey, with over 65,000 respondents in 2024 and 49,000 in 2025, documents how operating system preferences shift across 185 countries as developers balance personal choice against enterprise requirements.
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The 2024 Stack Overflow survey collected responses from 65,437 developers across 185 countries between May 19 and June 20.
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Standards/Consortia
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Digital Restrictions (DRM)
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