If you are running a Simple Machines Forum, there is a new hack making the rounds, and it is enough to turn your forum into something you no longer control. The hack first showed up May 01 2009, and has been gaining steam over the last couple of days. If you run the software, make [...]

I started to consider the reasons why open source vendors select the GPL after ESR wrote: “The GPL may be a community-building signaling device, but it is also a confession of fear and weakness. To believe that it matters, you have to believe that you live in a Type A universe where closed-source development is [...]