Jasper - The Free Lantern
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A trillion dollars wiped from software stocks. cURL forced to shut down its bug bounty over AI slop. Proxmox replacing VMware at enterprise scale.
The SaaS apocalypse is real, but it's not the end of software. It's the beginning of OpenSource's biggest era.
I wrote about what FOSDEM 2026 revealed, why maintainers need to embrace AI tools or risk being forked, and how even niche projects like https://www.thefreelantern.com now exist because creation costs collapsed.
https://hackernoon.com/the-saas-apocalypse-is-opensources-greatest-opportunity
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