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The roots of the OpenVox community are open source, and we've built our company and our products on that foundation. On this fine Star Wars Day I thought it would be a good time to talk a bit about why that's important to us and why we regard the corporat

If you're in the Ruby world you may have been following the RubyGems shenanigans of the last few weeks. They suffered a poorly communicated corporate led rug-pull, not all that dissimilar to the games Perforce has played over the last year or so. Amusingl

Well, it appears that Perforce has taken another step down the enshittification journey. For some strange reason, it appears that they don't want you writing Puppet modules unless you're a paying customer. That's right, they killed the open source PDK and

Hi everyone! Nick here. I figured it was time I finally write a blog post. If you've seen me around on the Vox Pupuli Slack, you know that I've been deep in the trenches of OpenVox build code for some time now, getting the various bits to a secure and sta

Have you been looking at the OpenVox project and wondered what you could do to help out? What if I told you about an opportunity to help us, and also hundreds of other OSS projects that you probably rely on? The OSU Open Source Lab is OpenVox's primary pa

Quite a few people over the last few months have helpfully pointed out the name collisions in the OpenVox Puppet fork. If you didn't recognize it, there's also a VoIP/PBX provider called OpenVox. Surely that's got to be a violation of some kind of law, ri

The other day someone shared a Puppet Community Slack post in which a very senior Perforce sales engineer stated plainly that the reason for their sequestered source shenanigans is that they're "asking open source users to pay their fair share." Now, I do

Well, we're back from Belgium after another successful week of conferences. First we attended FOSDEM in Brussels, then we hustled down to Ghent for the CfgMgmtCamp speaker's dinner. This year is special to me because it's the first year that I've not gone

It's been quite a journey, y'all. But we're excited to announce the first release of OpenVox, the community-maintained open source implementation of Puppet. OpenVox 8.11 is functionally equivalent to Puppet and should be a drop-in replacement. Be aware, o

It's been quite a journey, y'all. But we're excited to announce the first release of OpenVox, the community-maintained open source implementation of Puppet. OpenVox 8.11 is functionally equivalent to Puppet and should be a drop-in replacement. Be aware, o