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Pay the maintainers! đź”± CEO & co-founder @Tidelift. Compiler & package manager enthusiast.

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Donald Fischer
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RT @tidelift: Big news! Sonar has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Tidelift to enhance the security and resilience of open source….
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Spoke to @PallardyCarrie for @InformationWeek on @CISAgov's Secure by Design pledge, OSS maintainers, and what comes next: . "@tidelift is not only applying the principles in the pledge to its own software, but also helping open source maintainers achieve the pledge goals.".
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InformationWeek
1 year
Inside the 'Secure By Design' Revolution
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1 year
RT @vdanen: Missed the @tidelift Upstream event? You can watch them on demand now! Particularly my great discussion with Donald Fischer i….
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1 year
RT @tidelift: Fun fact: this @finosfoundation panel live right now was the first panel we filmed for #Upstream2024 this year! And now is fi….
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Donald Fischer
1 year
RT @tidelift: Live now! 📣 #Upstream2024. Two of @CISAgov's leading security experts, @jackhcable & @aevavoom, join @dff to provide insights….
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Donald Fischer
1 year
RT @ag_dubs: "companies have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to invest in their infrastructure and that includes open source" - @ljh….
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Donald Fischer
1 year
RT @changelog: 💥 It's a new Changelog & Friends!. 💡 Is it too late to opt out of AI?.🤩 with @luis_in_brief from @tidelift .🫡 with @jerodsan….
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1 year
RT @thenewstack: The xz Hack Revealed a Looming $8.8 Trillion Infrastructure Disaster @luis_in_brief #xzhack #secur….
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Donald Fischer
1 year
"The XZ utils hack brings into stark relief the risks of under-investing in the health and resilience of the open source software supply chain [that] enterprise organizations rely on," @tidelift's @dff says.
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Dark Reading
1 year
XZ Utils Scare Exposes Hard Truths About Software Security: by @jaivijayan.
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1 year
RT @tidelift: Software liability changes are coming. Are you ready? 👀. @tidelift CEO @dff shares highlights from new gov't #cybersecurity d….
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Donald Fischer
1 year
RT @tidelift: We're so happy to share that @tidelift has officially joined @FINOSFoundation, the Fintech Open Source Foundation! 🎉. Tidelif….
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Donald Fischer
1 year
Gutsy manifesto from @unisonweb: Developing cloud software today is complicated in a very strange way: a lot of the work you end up doing is not programming. What could be possible if you rethought this from the programming language up? They did.
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RT @tidelift: We’re officially in the new year 🎉 . What’s to come? 🤔. Join us Thurs, Jan. 18 at 2 p.m. ET, when @tidelift co-founders @dff….
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Donald Fischer
1 year
RT @drkellyannfitz: Tune in tomorrow to see what my brilliant fellow panelists (@BrittanyIstenes, @ljharb, and @tidelift co-founders @dff &….
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Donald Fischer
2 years
Our @tidelift response to @ONCD RFI: . Open source developers are long on passion, but short on time. Pay independent maintainers to ensure, and attest to, the secure software development practices followed by their projects. We brought the data.
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Donald Fischer
2 years
What could you do with first-party open source software intelligence data, built in partnership with upstream maintainers? Need to comply with new government cybersecurity regulations? Check out @tidelift's new API & compliance reporting capabilities!
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Donald Fischer
2 years
RT @tidelift: This week @CISAgov published the Open Source Software Security Roadmap and in it, the agency highlighted the need to support….
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Donald Fischer
2 years
CISA's new Open Source Software Security Roadmap highlights plans to:.🏛 Establish @CISAgov's role in supporting the security of OSS.🔍 Drive visibility into OSS usage and risks.⚡ Reduce risks to the federal government.💎 Harden the OSS ecosystem.
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Donald Fischer
2 years
RT @ha_joslyn: Ahead of #OSSummitEU, we explored the matter of how #opensource #maintainers can get paid. Thanks to @ljharb@TweetfromHilary….
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2 years
RT @tidelift: Get the TL;DR from @tidelift CEO @dff in @securityblvd on the latest U.S. government cybersecurity requirements and what they….
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