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Register - Oracle pours fuel all over Red Hat source code drama
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Register - SUSE announces its own RHEL-compatible distro…again
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Register – Codeberg beset by AI bots that now bypass Anubis tarpit
The Register - How GitHub Copilot could steer Microsoft into a copyright storm
The Register - Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same
The Next Web - GitHub Copilot works so well because it steals open-source code and strips credit
TechCrunch - Open source developers urged to ditch GitHub following Copilot launch
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Vice - John Deere–Backed Lobbying Groups Host Anti-Right to Repair Conference
Wired - The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair
The Register - Canon makes 'all-in-one' printers that refuse to scan when out of ink, lawsuit claims
Civil Eats - In the Battle Over the Right to Repair, Open-Source Tractors Offer an Alternative
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