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Akka Ratchets The Rights Away

The decision of LightBend to end the open source status of Akka was in retrospect more probable than not given the available evidence.

Patent troll attacks against open source projects are up 100% since last year. Here's why

I'm quoted in a ZDNet article on the surge of patent troll attacks on #OpenSource

Did the US Treasury censor code or illegal actions?

While the US government needs to clarify exactly what it was doing, in the Tornado Cash case the onus is on the cryptocurrency community to show they can abide by money-laundering law rather than appear to intentionally evade it.