Describes software for which the source code is freely available, and suggests a broader openness in development processes.
Open source philosophy emerged out of free software philosophy with the major difference that it is pragmatic rather than ethical - open code just works better, no comment on users' rights or any such thing. Much friendlier to commercial interests.
libxml2's overworked and unfunded solo developer announces he will no longer embargo security issues (many reported by Project Zero researchers (Google employees)).
Google Chrome developer “raises the question” of whether to remove XSLT (Chrome's use of XSLT being tightly coupled to libxml2) from Web standards (actually already in progress), citing security and “limited resources”. Uniformly negative response, guy doesn't give a shit. Suggestions that maybe Google could pay the open source devs they depend on go ignored. See also #11563, #11578, #11582.
libxml2 decides to relicense from MIT to AGPL.
Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Deprecate and remove XSLT posted to Chrome dev mailing list.