Here's the one-hundred eighty-ninth issue of COSS Weekly, the global commercial open source (COSS) company category newsletter, brought to you every weekend by the team at OSS Capital, creators and stewards of COSS Community and Open Core Summit.
We deliver only the most fresh 😋 news from the previous week in COSS across: Funding, Content, Jobs, Liquidity and $COSS (Public Markets).
Last week saw $35M in funding announcements from Onehouse, updates from Plane and Hoppscotch, a software engineering opportunity with Cap.so, and more!
Last week saw updates from NVIDIA, Wordpress, and Spacedrive, a new open-source law from Switzerland, Cal.com passing 30K stars, another job opportunity with Cap.so, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding
No COSS Funding announcements this week.
📚 COSS Content
Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "i really like the split view from @browsercompany's @arcinternet browser" Link
JJ: "Hot new release from @Tracel_AI github.com/tracel-ai/cube..." Link
Plane: "Now that you know exactly how much you save with Plane, what are you waiting for? plane.so/pricing#saving..." Link
Cal.com: "Here it is - our latest change log! As we just got back from our annual team retreat held in Slovenia, we're now recharged and enthusiastic. Definitely ready to continue shipping new features and improvements! Here's the roundup of what's new since the past month." Link
MIT CSAIL: "Happy birthday to @MIT alum Dan Bricklin, who you can thank for creating spreadsheets: bit.ly/29BqFi7" Link
Matt Mullenweg: "6.6 ma.tt/2024/07/6-6/" Link
Steven Tey: "If you're currently using Bitly to manage your short links, we would love for you to give @dubdotco a shot! See how we stack up & how you can migrate over in < 3 minutes: d.to/bitly" Link
Steve Jurvetson: ""Microsoft is a global monoculture and is therefore subject to catastrophic collapse." --- me, 20 years ago: jurvetson.blogspot.com/2004/09/whithe... "The resiliency of critical computer networks might suffer if they migrate to a common architecture. Like a monoculture of corn, they can be more efficient, but the vulnerability is more polarized - especially in a globally networked world."" Link
Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "we broke 30k @github stars unreal" Link
Andrej Karpathy: "LLM model size competition is intensifying... backwards! My bet is that we'll see models that "think" very well and reliably that are very very small ..." Link
Heather Meeker: "Nvidia transitioning to open-source GPU kernel modules for Linux --- R560 and later default to open-source for Turing and newer graphics cards msn.com/en-us/news/tec..." Link
Spacedrive: "Introducing the 4th major update to our Alpha, just one more until full release! Download Spacedrive now from spacedrive.com We are so excited to release multi-device next update, along with our mobile apps! Release notes → github.com/spacedriveapp/..." Link
Plane: "Why switch out to Slack or Hangouts or worse, WhatsApp, for work conversations when you have comments and mentions in the context of your issues on Plane? Put a comment, mention someone, and have them notified in-app and over e-mail. Easy. Try it on app.plane.so/sign-up." Link
Matt Mullenweg: "Some takeaways from a fantastic Jim Simons lecture at MIT ma.tt/2024/07/jim-si..." Link
Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "switzerland mandates open source software for all public software publicly funded software should be open joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/ope..." Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
- Mårten Mickos: "Over 80% of all Unicorns are sitting at lower valuations and nearly 30% have fallen below Unicorn status. industryventures.com/insight/thinni..." Link
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 4,673 jobs and 316 companies hiring! Lnk
- Richie - oss/acc: "looking to work with a designer for @Cap to take it to the next level... any recommendations?" Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets up 0.59% last week
Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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