<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>https://ecency.com</link><image><url>https://ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>https://ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:13:55 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ecency.com/@webmink/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Like G Suite or Office 365, but open source and Swiss-hosted]]></title><description><![CDATA[We decided at The Document Foundation not to try to offer a public deployment of LibreOffice Online, as it would be a massive undertaking and we've no way of funding it reliably. 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Regardless of the actual terms of the license and patent grant, Facebook messed up by inventing a novel legal instrument]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@webmink/5-reasons-facebook-messed-up-with-react-js-licensing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@webmink/5-reasons-facebook-messed-up-with-react-js-licensing</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[webmink]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2017 16:39:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/3HaJVw3AYyXBPRBaq9JgDKk9uGKqsgcZf3LVL3iyfG1X3Untyig9sM8yz3YXVNodK7i2VDkRnT9B2koboh1aAXc858AQAeFWRLUH9We?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hyperledger Interview]]></title><description><![CDATA[I had the chance to interview Brian Behlendorf, executive director of the Hyperledger project today. Well-resourced and very active, Hyperledger is a project creating platforms and tools for private blockchain]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@webmink/hyperledger-interview</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@webmink/hyperledger-interview</guid><category><![CDATA[blockchain]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[webmink]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:13:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXZoVDy6ka6foZby23fbpowBDLPByXgjKqVCncHDpW5iZRDYprirRFmrmpx744A7kJvKyzq1xTuY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is a patent grant worse than no patent grant?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The dispute by the Apache Software Foundation over Facebook's addition of a patent grant to the BSD license rumbles on. 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