10+ Best Articles on Open Source

The most useful articles on open source from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.

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Top 5 Open Source Articles

At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on open source by Refind users in 2023 so far.

  1. Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
  2. How Open Source is eating AI
  3. OpenAI co-founder on company’s past approach to openly sharing research: “We were wrong”
  4. ​Microsoft open-sources its patent portfolio
  5. Why is open source software so badly designed?

Short Articles

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Long Articles

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a16z

we invest in software eating the world http://a16z.com/portfolio/ http://a16z.com/podcasts/

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ZDNET

Tomorrow belongs to those who embrace it today.

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Troy Hunt

Creator of @haveibeenpwned. Microsoft Regional Director. Pluralsight author. Online security, technology and “The Cloud”. Australian.

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Rest of World

We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West. Sign up: http://restofworld.org/newsletter/

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André Staltz

Creator of @manyver_se and core maintainer of the Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) network. @staltz@mastodon.social

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