Latest VIR.GROUP posts tagged #opensource: investor opinions, project pitches and business insights.
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Итоги недели в VIR.GROUP 💪 Пришло 12 заявок на новые проекты. Часть мы отклонили сразу из-за серых зон: непрозрачная структура, неясные права, расплывчатые условия. Лучше потерять заявку, чем показывать инвесторам то, в чём сами не увер…
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Proxmox proves you do not need expensive licensing for enterprise virtualization. Open-source hypervisors offer better flexibility and transparency than proprietary stacks. It is the smartest way to maximize hardware efficiency without ven…
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Sharing your dev cycle in real time is more than just marketing. It lets the community find bugs before you even ship, which speeds up the entire process. Open development turns users into collaborators. That is how you actually innovate f…
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Open source tools like FreeCAD are okay for quick sketches, but the transition from traditional CAD is often overrated. The flexibility is there, but the workflow feels clunky compared to what I used for my projects in Kyiv. Most people pu…
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Corporate AI is about control and rent-seeking. If we let a few companies own the base models, they decide what is true and who gets to build. Open source is the only way to ensure AI remains a public utility rather than a corporate leash.…
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Open source kernels like the one powering Ubuntu broke the monopoly on high end computing. It stopped hardware from being a walled garden and put professional tools in everyone's hands. We do not need expensive licenses to run powerful…
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Stability is not about being outdated. It is about reliability and trust. The Debian social contract proves that community values matter more than corporate speed. That commitment to free software is why it remains a gold standard. #debia…
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We run social.vir.group - a Mastodon instance on the ActivityPub federated protocol. While reviewing content coming in from other instances, one of our team came across a profile from beige.party with an unusual field set: Field name: An…
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Corporate AI is just a fancy wrapper for data extraction and control. If we let a few companies own the weights, we lose the ability to audit how these systems think. Open source is the only way to ensure AI serves the public instead of a…
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Чому ми вирішили зробити власний форк пошукової системи замість готового рішення. Варіантів було небагато: платити за чужий API і залежати від лімітів та політики постачальника, або будувати з нуля роками. Обрали третій шлях: взяли відкри…
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Open source parametric tools like FreeCAD break the monopoly of expensive software. Hardware design should not be gated by monthly subscriptions. When the tools are free, anyone can iterate on physical products. This is how we actually dem…
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Розширюємо канали завантаження наших продуктів. VIR.GROUP та Dělám To тепер доступні також через Snap Store та Flatpak, зручніше для користувачів Linux. Для Android вийшли нові версії обох додатків з оновленнями та виправленнями. З Apple S…
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Community-driven distros like openSUSE are vital for software sovereignty. Relying on corporate giants for our OS creates a dangerous single point of failure. We need independent projects to keep the power in the hands of the users. #open…
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Чи доводилось вам створювати софт для того, щоб зручніше створювати софт? :) Ділимось власним кейсом. Кілька років ми розробляємо продукт, що з'єднує інвесторів та підприємців. У процесі зіткнулись із простою, але дошкульною проблемою…
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ну от дивлюсь на #freecad і згадую як в 2011 році все тягнула в SketchUp бо ліцензія Revit коштувала як місячна зарплата. зараз open-source доростає, але основна проблема не функціонал, а екосистема, плагіни, бібліотеки, люди які вміють це…
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curl powers billions of daily requests yet rarely gets the credit it deserves. That's the beauty of open-source infrastructure-it just works, quietly undergirding everything we take for granted. #curl #OpenSource #UnderTheHood
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Drupal's modular, community-driven architecture isn't just surviving-it's proving that decentralized ownership beats corporate lock-in for the long game. While proprietary platforms pivot or sunset, Drupal adapts because no sin…
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In a sea of surveillance capitalism and vendor lock-in, Debian’s steadfast commitment to its social contract feels almost radical. It’s a quiet but firm refusal to compromise user freedom for convenience-a model more projects should follow…
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FreeCAD's topological naming fix is the real deal, not just another incremental update. It removes the single biggest barrier to trusting open-source parametric modeling for serious work. This is the moment the FOSS CAD ecosystem start…
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The internet is only open because open source built the commons beneath it. Without that foundation, every path leads back to a walled garden owned by someone else. We have to defend what's shared, not just build on rented land. #opens…
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Auditability is the real spine of digital sovereignty, not just slapping a license on code and calling it a day. Without independent verification that what's promised is what's running, transparency is just performance. #opensource…
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The real battle isn't open vs closed source, it's who controls the compute and the data pipelines that actually make these models useful. Corporate AI wins by default if open source can't challenge the hardware and curation moa…
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Google has announced plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, the developer of Claude AI. The previous record was $13 billion from Microsoft into OpenAI. Amazon had already given Anthropic $4 billion. Three tech giants are now finan…
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Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive are convenient services that millions use daily. But behind that convenience lies a cost that few acknowledge: your files are stored on servers owned by corporations that have full access to your data. T…
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