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Cal.com Goes Closed Source: Why AI Security Is Forcing Our ...
After five years as open source champions, Cal.com is going closed source. This wasn’t an easy decision, but in the age of AI-driven security threats, protecting customer data has to come first. Cal.diy will continue as an open option for hobbyists.
Cal.com goes private: A security reckoning for open source
Cal.com moves its core codebase to a closed repository, citing AI security risks. Discover how the startup balances open source roots with vulnerability concerns.
'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led ...
Cal is moving its flagship open-source program to a proprietary model because it can't cope with the dangers of AI hacking its open code.
Cal.com Goes Closed Source, Launches Cal.diy Amid AI Security ...
Open-source scheduling platform Cal.com announced on Tuesday (April 15) that it is moving its commercial codebase to closed source, citing AI-driven security risks. The company simultaneously launched Cal.diy, a stripped-down open-source version under the MIT license for hobbyists and developers.
Cal.com closed its source code. Here's what the security ...
Cal.com closed its 30,000-star production codebase on April 15, citing AI vulnerability scanners that make open-source code five to ten times easier to exploit.
Open Source Isn't Dead. - strix.ai
Today, Cal.com announced they are transitioning their core codebase away from open source. The reasoning provided by their CEO, Bailey Pumfleet, is that AI has automated vulnerability discovery at scale, making code scanning and exploitation "near zero-cost". In this new world, they argue, "transparency becomes exposure." At Strix, we build autonomous AI security agents. We are an open-source ...
Cal.com Goes Closed Source: AI Security or Business Move?
The Precedent That Matters Cal.com is the first major commercial open source project to explicitly cite AI threats as the reason for going closed. If this strategy works—if enterprise customers accept the security rationale and Cal.com’s business thrives—expect others to follow. The global open source software market is worth $49 billion.
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