Earlier this week PT over at Adafruit published an interesting post on the evolving relationship between some of the larger open source hardware companies and open source itself. The post catalogs various ways in which three marquee open source hardware companies - Arduino, Sparkfun, and Prusa - have explored non-open strategies for various parts of their offerings.

Update 10/2024: The Copyright Office granted the exemption request! A bit more info in this post.

Last week Josef Průša, the eponymous proprietor of the important open source hardware company Prusa Research, shared a post about the state of open source in 3D printing.

Recently I read two blog posts about the intersection of Section 230 and generative AI, specifically LLMs. While they are both interesting, I think they skip over a potentially limiting constraint on the importance of these questions: the blast radius of any specific piece of AI generated content on a website. Specifically, it seems plausible that blast radius - or damaging reach of the piece of content - may be fairly limited, which would reduce the likelihood that 230 protections end up being super relevant.*

Earlier this month the Engelberg Center and Creative Commons released a report on GLAM institutions who were early to adopt open access policies. This post originally ran on the Creative Commons site. The paper hosted here is the same paper as hosted there. The only difference is that I simplified the file name from the original “Final-Pioneers-of-Open-Three-Case-Studies.pdf-correctedByPAVE.pdf” because, well.