Quoted Posts Quoted Posts Zin Lwin 16 June 2025 Computing IT Leaders 100 2025 – Amanda Brock Zin Lwin 16 June 2025 IT Pro’s Emma Woollcott explains the copyrights in AI debate Zin Lwin 10 June 2025 Reporting Keir Starmer’s keynote at London Tech Week, Computing quote CEO, Amanda Brock on where open source can bring the missing practical experience Zin Lwin 9 June 2025 Computing report on the new rules of war as Ukraine uses open source software to power drones in Russian attack Amanda Brock 31 May 2025 iAfrica reports on open washing on Llama by meta in wake of new Linux Foundation report. Amanda Brock 31 May 2025 ITPro reflects on the risk of sponsorship from meta on Linus Foundation’s open source report. Amanda Brock 30 May 2025 Digwatch focuses on Meta open washing as we see a new report from LF on value of AI and open source. Zin Lwin 14 May 2025 The Next Web reports that Amanda Brock warns “Europe must get real on tech sovereignty and stay open” Daisy Andrews 2 May 2025 ZDNet reports on the Redis licence change back to open source AGPL Daisy Andrews 2 May 2025 Computing reports on Redis’ licence with Amanda Brock saying, “Redis is one of the biggest culprits in undermining open source’s fundamental free flow of value, with repeated shifts away from open source licensing.” Daisy Andrews 1 May 2025 The Stack reports on Redis shifting back to open source software licensing. Abby Crimlis 24 April 2025 Computing’s Adrian Bridgwater says “Kubernetes we know, UKubernetes (or perhaps it should be uKubernetes) we don’t know so much” as he reviews OpenUK’s recent Kubernetes in the UK report launched at Kubecon Abby Crimlis 17 April 2025 Business Wire, Board of Mojaloop Foundation strengthened with 3 new Board members including Amanda Brock Daisy Andrews 3 April 2025 TNW reports on European tech’s reaction to Trump Daisy Andrews 3 April 2025 Daisy Andrews 3 April 2025 Daisy Andrews 3 April 2025 Daisy Andrews 25 March 2025 As DeepSeek releases V3 we see a non-reasoning model with parameter usage reduction that will shift the AI market again Daisy Andrews 24 March 2025 Raconteur reports on the AI opportunity for public service with comments from our CEO of OpenUK, recognising the need for this to be done “ in an informed a manner” and “to adapt and work with these changes and not to fight them Daisy Andrews 18 March 2025 Increasing concerns as the EU focuses on localising tech. Daisy Andrews 17 March 2025 Amanda Brock raises concerns at company demands for a sovereign stack in a world of geopolitical shift Daisy Andrews 11 March 2025 Amanda Brock explores the ongoing need for open source and international collaboration in a time of geopolitical shift. Is there such a thing as a sovereign tech stack? Daisy Andrews 7 March 2025 Gradients, or “shades of openness,” could be the solution of what openness is in AI, as we see these launch of R1 from DeepSeek Daisy Andrews 3 March 2025 Amanda Brock argues for the need for global collaboration whilst we seek a non US tech stack Daisy Andrews 24 February 2025 Forks are doing better than The Reg headline might imply as was discussed at SOOCon25 Daisy Andrews 16 February 2025 Maintainers at State of Open Con discuss being under pressure with The Register Daisy Andrews 15 February 2025 Last year, Amanda Brock commended Meta’s “direction of openness”, but said its Llama 3 model can’t truly be considered “100% open source” as we see an industry shift to even Sam Altman being pro open source in 2025! reported ITPro Daisy Andrews 13 February 2025 Amanda Brock reports for computing from the AI Action Summit in Paris, saying “collaborate, baby, collaborate” as she explains the importance of the open source and public interest announcements across the summit. Zin Lwin 10 February 2025 Amanda Brock sees ROOST open source tools as sees tools as essential for AI safety, contrasting them with the European Commission’s “cumbersome and complex AI Act” Zin Lwin 7 February 2025 Dr Laura Gilbert discusses the UK’s government commitment to openness and what the application of restrictions to open source means. Zin Lwin 7 February 2025 Fintech Times by Gina Clarke reports across State of Open Con, including “morning plenaries, expertly ran by Amanda Brock, and the conference’s key talking points” Zin Lwin 6 February 2025 Amanda Brock, the CEO of Open Source UK, told TechInformed: “I’m against this [Hawley AI China Ban] bill. I think we should be focussing on global collaboration. That’s how we innovate best, and it’s not something that’s good for society or innovation.” Zin Lwin 6 February 2025 Amanda Brock says “we need a clear direction from the current government on AI and openness” if we want to succeed Zin Lwin 5 February 2025 Computing Discussing why no AI company has achieved open source’s goals at the State of Open Con in London and Sam Altman’s admission that when it comes to open source OpenAI is on the wrong side of history. Zin Lwin 4 February 2025 Amanda Brock argues “datacentres should be using more open source-related tech, not least because it could slash carbon emissions as she discusses licence changes and the hammer of the fork in open source. Zin Lwin 4 February 2025 Adrian Bridgwater nails the issues of the day in open source software and AI openness in his State of Open Con live report. Zin Lwin 23 January 2025 Amanda Brock comments to Forbes on the launch of an Open Weights Definition by the Open Source Alliance in the run up to SOOCon25 and the French Global Open Source Action Summit Zin Lwin 16 January 2025 Amanda Brock writes about the difficult path to a brave new world – the interaction of governments with tech in our digital reality Zin Lwin 6 January 2025 Amanda Brock shares her thoughts on what will matter in 2025 Zin Lwin 3 January 2025 Focusing on what she considers the most impactful occurrence in open source in 2024, CEO, Amanda Brock discusses the application of sanctions and impact of geopolitics to open source Zin Lwin 18 December 2024 Amanda Brock shares her initial thoughts on TDM in the UK Gov consultation on copyright and AI with IT Pro “licensing or royalty models are never going to be a long-term answer and merely represent a stopgap solution” Zin Lwin 5 December 2024 Yet more people flagging discontent with the new Open Source AI Definition from the OSI in this piece in The New Stack Zin Lwin 3 December 2024 Amanda Brock’s career as one of the globally most experienced individuals in open source policy celebrates in Analytics Insights on 5th Anniversary of her role as CEO at OpenUK Zin Lwin 17 November 2024 Elon Musk may influence Donald Trump’s stance says Amanda Brock in interview with CCN Zin Lwin 8 October 2024 V9.0 of the Open Source AI Definition has met with criticism including from Amanda Brock Zin Lwin 26 September 2024 The New Stack reports Why Open Source Forking Is a Hot-Button Issue Zin Lwin 25 September 2024 Computing reports Labour Party Conference: UK risks being left behind in AI Zin Lwin 23 September 2024 Computing reports ‘Not a business model’: How companies misunderstand open source Zin Lwin 22 September 2024 Tech Crunch reports Some startups are going ‘fair source’ to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing Zin Lwin 19 September 2024 The Register reports if governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it
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