Nobody can accuse Simon Phipps of halfheartedly supporting open source. But even he thinks we’ve gone way off the deep end with the number of open source foundations. In the video below, Phipps (an InfoWorld contributor) uses his address at OSCON 2015 in Amsterdam to implore the crowd, “Please, stop your employers from starting new open source trade foundations!”
Read more at InfoWorld.
The Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 update continues to receive all kinds of new packages and fixes, and it looks like the developers have had a really busy week.
The MATE desktop environment has been updated to version 1.12, and the new iteration brings quite a few improvements, the most notable being the support for GTK 3.18.